After
getting into IIT, I was happy as I was in a place that was full of
opportunities. It was also the first time I was staying away from home
and was excited about hostel life. I just focused on studies and friends
in my first year. I used to go back home every weekend so was not able
to take part in a lot of activities.
Starting
the second year I started to explore all the opportunities that the
college had to provide. I took part in the following:
- Training and placement cell: Part of the cell at various levels for 3 years. Met with countless company officials, handled tests/interviews.
- Rendezvous: Part of IITD’s annual cultural fest organization team for 3 years. I met with embassy officials, foreign artists (who are still my friends), and handled thousands of audience.
- PRATHAM, NGO: In the summer I took time to work for Pratham, where I wrote a course on C++. For that, I wrote a book explaining coding in very simple language, and then also designed a course
- Merry-Go-Learn, Startup: I took up this as a side activity, where I used to make interactive sessions for middle school kids in Maths or Science, essentially making them understand concepts using very practical applications
- Minor degree, CS: I developed some love for coding in 11th, 12th and pursued it by doing a Minor degree in CS, it was extremely difficult as the people you’re competing with are the computer science major students and they know a lot more than you do.
- Cambridge internship: In my 4th year summer I applied to a lot of foreign universities and was accepted in many including MIT and Cambridge. It was a pleasure to go and learn during this internship. It was also my first foreign travel.
IIT is a place which you can use as a stepping stone to go in various directions.
If one joins and becomes complacent here, they lose the edge they have.
This is also true in general. So it is never a good idea to just stop
working hard or relaxing a lot. Hard work would never let you down.
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