People typically add their degrees after their name. It’s a way to show their achievements and they are usually proud of it. I can’t say I’m different.

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
– Leonardo da Vinci

Programming has always intrigued me. Owing to mediocre results in the admission exam, I was not given the option to choose CSE as a major. A teacher of mine advised me to take Statistics. Now I see that maybe that was the best thing that happened to me.

Blessings come in various forms. Me getting introduced to R could be one of them. During the early days, Python was more favorable to me. But ever since I was introduced to Shiny, R Packages & the wonderful R community, the plot changed.

This undeserving minion has always been favored with blessings of which he is unworthy. It was during my University days that the thought occured to me; The world that we see is just part of it. There’s more to it, a lot more. Here, success is defined by degrees, position, money and stuff.
A man is measured by these trivial things. But these things can never define man.

A man’s measure is his will.

Towards the end of 3rd year, I had grown quite fond of R. This is when I started working with Shiny. After days of work, my first app was up and running.

Seeing the capabilites and the promise it held, I decided that this is what I want to do. Not to mention I got to do something that I love in the process, write R codes.

Coming back to the academic studies and the graduation, that wasn’t very appealing to me. The fact that I was able to complete it is a wonder. Praises to Allah Subhanahu wa ta’ala and some friends who literally pushed me through it. The tagline would possibly be ‘BSc Dropout’ otherwise.

Ghareeb to wo hai jis ka koi dost na ho.

Allah Subhanahu wa ta’ala has bestowed this disobedient slave many many niyamats, all by His Mercy and Power. I can never say enough prayers or praises in His Honor.

What is it that drives people?
A man with a broken leg is smiling, because his team won in the final.
A man with no broken legs is crying, because his team lost.
What makes them do that?

The answer is not far.

Its within, happiness lies within.