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my museum of victories as a 22 year old:
1. working remotely as a research scientist in post-training/multimodal ai with a ctc of 78k usd which is approx 72 lpa INR
2. visited 7 countries: singapore, japan, china, hawai, thailand, vietnam, south korea . worked remotely from a few others were company offsite
3. graduated with more than 7 off-campus job offers all over 18lpa from a college where highest package was 10.
4. completed over 11 internships spanning research, sde, ml and devops
5. 5 publications in A* conferences including ICML, ICLR, NeurIPS
6. worked with some of the top professors and phd students in the world getting some insane LORs in the process
7. got ms admits from 7 of the top 15 US colleges
8. Used to weigh 52kgs when i started engineering, got to 79kgs with a decent amount of muscle.
9. helped rebuild my grandparents house.
10. went on a full north to south vietnam trip with my bestfriend of 15 years
11. helped pay off parent's debts
12. finally bought a MacBook of my own
13. working on my first solo author paper under guidance of someone from DeepMind
the only reason I posted all this is because I know how scary it is getting overwhelmed by all the progress happening and it's okay to be scared that you might not make it. but there's something you should remember:
It only takes one big win to cancel all the losses. just one win.
for me that win was getting my first internship and it was just uphill from there. I'll say the same thing I said a year ago, keep your head down, keep working, keep learning , do not lose that curiosity at any cost, have that consistency, it's fine to have off days, it's fine to get distracted but never lose sight of your end goal. and when you do win you'll realise the amount of effort it actually takes to make it and you'll be grateful and proud of yourself that you put in the work.
may you never ever lose the desire to pursue things no matter how hard it gets.
keep grinding.
ps: a photo from my first international flight
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