Completed My Be Third Year
Completed My BE Third Year 🌟
I finished my BE 3rd year with a CGPA of 8.8, but the numbers aren’t really the story this time — this was the year that completely reshaped how I think.
The Turning Point
I started the year still exploring everything tech had to offer — web development with Next.js, React, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, alongside some DSA. I was curious about a lot, but committed to nothing.
Then one day, my professor asked me a simple question: “What do you want to become?”
I had no answer. I took about two minutes to actually think — what field genuinely excites me, what makes me feel good — and it hit me: foundational AI and neural networks research. That one question shifted my entire mindset.
Finding My North Star
I started consuming everything I could — posts, YouTube videos, anything AI-related. And then I found what felt like a gold mine: Andrej Karpathy’s YouTube channel. Gradually, he became my biggest inspiration. Now, whenever someone asks me who I want to become, I answer with full confidence: “Andrej Karpathy.”
I completed his Neural Networks: Zero to Hero course, and it was genuinely amazing — covering nearly all the major foundational concepts of generative AI. I even started saying it myself: “I like to train deep neural nets.”
I experimented with different transformer architectures, which demanded a lot of patience. But it taught me something important: progress matters more than perfection — perfection is a myth.
Looking back, I’ve realized the real power of that one question my professor asked. It changed everything.
First Time Away From Home
This was also the year I left my hometown for the first time — for hackathons.
Hyderabad, first stop — a hackathon by GenAI Versity. The setup, the food, the environment, the facilities — everything was amazing. Our team built LearnFlow, an app using the Gemini API + ElevenLabs API to help students learn new concepts interactively through audio and an interactive canvas.
Bangalore, second stop — RV College for a DSA-style problem-solving competition. This one didn’t go as planned. Despite three months of DSA practice, we only managed to solve 3 out of 7 questions, and we didn’t make it through. It was a humbling failure — one that taught me that unprepared effort and low confidence going in will almost always lead to the same outcome.