GDSC :My Journey of Mentorship and Growth

If you’re someone from a tier-3 college, you must know how things work there. Students are focused on academics more and scared of coding/programming. Academics are important but many of us realize in the final/pre-final year how much development and problem-solving skills are important.

Even after being a part of GDSC, I wanted to give more time to my juniors to help them with the first step – “getting started”.

I started it a few months ago with a funny Whatsapp group called “Get Alive Guys” and let all those juniors join it who wanted to do something. 100s of students joined it.

Initially, I felt like failing. Even after sharing resources, there was no response. But I didn’t stop and one day a junior texted me that she wanted to get started. I told her all the ways she could do it. She took that hardest step of getting started and didn’t stop then.

After that, one by one, over 30 students came to me for guidance and I managed to give time to every single one of them. I am happy to see how 2nd-semester students already have a vision of being a good developer. They want to participate in hackathons, open-source events, or other coding-related things. They are not scared of programming anymore.

Maybe it’s not a huge change but at least a start to change the culture. To all my juniors who have started, I hope you won’t give up, I hope you will reach out every time you are stuck.

There was a quote that I always loved,” Be the change you wish to see in the world.” It’s not the college that builds students, but the seniors. I may not guide them to crack FAANG but at least give them a start.

If you’re a student from a tier-3 college, it’s not the end but a start.