🖥️Internet and Me

TLDR: access to internet was a big gamechanger in my life :)

🌐 Access to Internet

This may sound surprising, but I'm one of the few people in my generation who didn't have a Facebook account when growing up and still don't have one. I was a late bloomer to the internet and got proper access to the internet when I joined the college in 2018, that was a canon event in my life. In my school days, I had limited internet access, 2GB per month for the whole family, but when I joined college, I got a new SIM which had 1.5GB per day, which was a huge jump

However, I didn't instantly become a coding prodigy the moment I got internet access. I was just a regular individual with a keen interest in programming, which led me to choose computer science and engineering in college. Despite my interest in learning about website and application development, cybersecurity, hacking, and more, my first college lecture was on the basics of mechanical engineering, though it ended up being my favorite subject that semester.

Initially, I used my internet access mostly for entertainment, watching interesting videos on YouTube. It wasn't until the end of the first semester when I had to self-learn Python because the lectures were not helping me, that I began using the internet as a learning tool. I found numerous YouTube tutorials and Udemy courses, but I was stuck in a cycle of endlessly following tutorials without making real progress. I only realized this when I attended my first hackathon.

Despite these challenges, having proper internet access was the starting point for many significant events in my life I strongly believe that today, providing someone with a good internet connection and a laptop is the best way to grant them access to education. Digital tools have made learning much easier and more accessible.

When I have enough financial resources, I want to support underprivilieged students via a scholarship which provides access to internet and laptops and a grand amount they can utilize for education purposes

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