Finally, Graduated

So… I graduated.

On September 19, 2026, I officially wrapped up my B.Tech in Artificial Intelligence and Data Science. Four years, countless memories, way too many deadlines, and one chapter I’ll never get to live in quite the same way again.

Honestly, it still feels a little weird typing that.

For four years, college was just… life. Classes, assignments, exams, projects, deadlines, friends, random conversations, the occasional skipped class (sorry), figuring everything out at the last minute, and constantly wondering what life after college would even look like.

And now, just like that, it’s a memory.

We were kind of a weird batch

Here’s the funny part about our journey.

We’re the batch that never wrote our Class 12 board exams, thanks to COVID. We finished school during one of the strangest times ever, and walked into college right when everything was changing super fast.

Then, somewhere in the middle of it all, something bigger happened.

AI showed up in our classrooms.

By the time assignments, projects, coding problems, presentations and reports started piling up, ChatGPT and friends had quietly become part of how we studied and worked.

We were probably one of the first batches of engineering students to live through that switch in real time. One day we were digging through Google and Stack Overflow, and the next we were just asking an AI, “bro, why isn’t this code working?”

Sometimes it actually helped us understand stuff.

Sometimes it confidently gave us completely wrong answers.

And sometimes… it helped us finish an assignment way faster than we should probably admit. 😅

The funny thing is, I picked AI and Data Science as my degree.

I walked into college to study AI.

By the time I walked out, AI had already changed how everyone studies, codes and works.

Kinda wild when you think about it.

The stuff that wasn’t in the syllabus

When I look back at these four years, I don’t really think about any particular subject or exam.

I think about the people.

Friends who made boring college days fun. Professors who taught us, pushed us, corrected us and kept encouraging us. Projects that started as tiny ideas and somehow turned into things I really loved building.

Last-minute deadlines. Presentations. Hackathons. Experiments that totally failed. Code that started working five minutes before the demo (every. single. time.).

And all the random conversations in between.

Somewhere in all that chaos, I figured out that I genuinely love building things with AI and software.

College gave me the foundation, but curiosity dragged me way further: machine learning, generative AI, RAG, agents, backend systems, web dev, computer vision, voice AI, and a bunch of side experiments that all started with the same thought:

“Wait, what if I tried building this?”

Not every project worked. Not every idea was a good one. But every single one taught me something.

It was always about the people

A degree has one name printed on it, but the journey behind it is never a solo thing.

Huge thanks to my professors for everything they taught me and every opportunity they gave me.

To my friends, for making these four years about so much more than marks and attendance.

And most of all, to my family, for backing me the whole way, even when I wasn’t totally sure where I was heading.

Standing up there at convocation with the degree in my hands wasn’t really about the certificate. It felt like the closing scene of a show that had been quietly running in the background for four whole years.

And… that’s it

School’s done. College is done.

No next semester.

No next internal exam.

No assignment portal waiting for a submission at 11:59 PM.

No more “let’s do it tomorrow” project discussions.

Just memories, and whatever comes next.

I’m walking out with a lot more than a degree: friendships, experiences, mistakes, lessons, some actual technical skills, a bunch of ridiculous stories, and a much clearer idea of what I want to build.

Four years ago, I walked in as a kid who was curious about tech.

Today, I’m walking out still curious. And honestly, that might be the best thing I got out of these four years.

Finally graduated.

One chapter done. Time to build the next one. 🚀