What I did during my college years (abbreviated) :
1st Year: Joined
@teamarcis, did marketing, learned about basics of Aeromodelling, built the team presentation, won two medals at SAE Aerodesign. 1st place at SAE India. Won a bunch of debate/creative writing/seminar competitions.
2nd Year: Continued with Arcis, now as the marketing manager and the Data Acquisition System. Won my first two Hackathons. Won 1 more medal at SAE AW. Interned at Element14 (the distributors of Raspberry Pi), and benchmarked the raspberry Pi 4B. Won a bunch of electronics contests by them. Finished the year by winning the Hardware Edition of Smart India Hackathon.
3rd Year: Started
@pointblank_club with my friends, won more hackathons, hard pivot into compilers - Did Google Summer of Code with
@arduino and was mentored by Alessandro Ranellucci, one of the creators of 3D printing. Got the Linux Foundation Scholarship. Won the South Zone round of Dassault Systemes Aakruti competition for designing a new type of Bionic Arm.
4th Year: Became an Linux Foundation Mentee with Intel Mobileye, resolved a 7 year old bug in the GNU C Library that allowed Linux to be certified for ISO 26262 standards (Automotive), Interned at the FSF (Free Software Foundation, of GNU fame), and finally joined
@AMD as an Intern.
Overall it was a pretty eventful 4 years. I participated (and mostly won) one competition every 45 days for the entire duration of BTech. Interned at many interesting places, got to meet lots of cool people, and built things that are still running today. It was a good run!