🎉 Today, I am incredibly relieved and excited to announce that I got my O-1A (Individuals with Extraordinary Ability) petition APPROVED and can continue to work in the U.S. on groundbreaking products with some of my favorite co-workers. As an undergraduate student on STEM OPT until a few weeks ago…

A Story from My College Life — I was recently going through old pictures and some of my old projects, and I stumbled on some content that made me want to write this article! While I was a rising senior at Illinois Tech, I decided to spend the summer doing some…

“Any AoC fans in the house? ” one of my colleagues posted in our work slack #engineering channel with a link to Advent of Code 2020 (AoC 2020). Back in college, I used to do week-long coding challenges and then give up after 3 or 4 days. AoC is a…

The more profound struggles of finding a job as an international student — In my article To All of You Who Moved Abroad, I mentioned that I was going to share my experience with my job hunt. It’s been a little over a year since I started working at a startup that one can only dream of working for, and about two years…

The deeper struggles of living far away. I moved to the U.S. in January 2017 from my hometown — Bangalore. Over the years, I have learned how to deal with moving far away from family, friends, and home. The first time you are dropped off at boarding school, obviously like…

The educated class in India is living in a bubble. In India, we quite often forget that the majority of our citizens are in rural areas. This leads to us developing apathy to the rural section of society. We think of them as people who are not smart and who…