 I think somewhere around my first year and second year of time which is around 2016 and 2017, I got accompanied with a senior who actually was pursuing some of the NPTEL courses from where I actually learned about NPTEL. Then I came upon that yeah AI is the field that I want to really go for but I never really had that resources or you can say that amount of batched certifications or resources what I can learn and I can also vet that yeah I know and somebody will recognize me for that and that's when I came across NPTEL and I found that these courses were being taught by IT professors and is industry recognized. This course I want to gain relevant experience, knowledge, as well as vetted certifications to pursue my dream in AI because one thing was definitely there is that me being from a mechanical perspective I really need to work and prove that I know the computer science domain which was the AI field right. All this and the point that I'm currently now will not have started if I did not came across NPTEL at that point of time. So my company's name is Glad Kerape, Private Limited and currently globally we have around 40 plus employees. In India we have around 10 plus employees while the remaining are working from remote somewhere from USA and few from Europe. I started backing around 2021 November that I started in this startup and we have been first of all trying to like work with a lot of companies who needed AI technologies to be implemented so it was started as a service-based kind of a thing and now currently we are trying to launch a lot of products for that. So currently after my bachelor's I have been slowly defaulted into my startup but what I feel is that I'll be pursuing my PhD which will be an integrated course I'm trying for MIT as I pulled but I already received a pending offer from Stanford. So typically what was done is that normally I would have had one or two days kind of Saturday or Sunday we had the exams and so what I would definitely do is on Friday after my classes got over at around like say 5 p.m. I would take my luggage go to the nearest railway station take the train and the train will reach around something the next early morning at around 5 or 6 to Guwahati then they are on take a cab go to the center which had there was I think only one center was there at that point in Guwahati and do the exams find a cheap hotel to stay in for one day manage of the expenses for the food and everything. My favorite courses were definitely by Professor Deepak Kimani environment everything because I have been very very passionate with the AI right. So one thing that I did is I learned through I think Professor Deepak Kimani has three courses in AI so I think the PHS and CPA and one other things problem solving so you see he has three courses so these are my these were my first courses that I've done and these are my all-time favorites one thing that really propelled my confidence was the exposure that I got especially after like that was a 19 uh from NPTEL whatever I got it really propelled me and led me to a stage where I was connected with a lot of people be it from the industry be it from academia side so that's when I felt that yeah if by doing some courses and by doing this if I could achieve these connections and this level of exposure then if I particularly work towards it maybe I am able to achieve something more.