External examiner at AISSMS IOIT

6 months ago, I was preparing for my final year project submission.
Today, I visited AISSMS as an external examiner to evaluate final year projects.

Life really does turn 360 fast.

Glad to share I was invited by the AISSMS IOIT CS Department as an external examiner, and honestly, it felt surreal to sit on the other side of the table.

Met several final-year teams and some of the projects were genuinely impressive ✨

The tech bar for students is rising quickly. You can clearly see university teams building real products, not just submitting “college projects.”

🤔 And honestly, this is the best era to be a student.

With AI tools everywhere, it’s absolutely possible to build a product before graduation or even start something of your own with very little friction.

🛠️ If you’re a student and want to start building, here are a few AI tools worth exploring:

1️⃣ To build faster:
- Cursor
- Windsurf
- Continue[dot]dev
- bolt.new

2️⃣ To design better:
- Figma + Diagram AI
- tldraw + MakeReal

3️⃣ To research smarter:
- Perplexity
- Typeset[dot]io (SciSpace)
- Scite[dot]ai

4️⃣ To launch your project:
- Replit Deployments
- Vercel
- Supabase

5️⃣ To showcase your product:
- Framer AI
- Typedream AI
- Mixpanel

Thanks to AISSMS IOIT, Archana ma’am for the invite and to all the faculty who were incredibly supportive.

Walking into the university:
- First as a student
- Then as a speaker
- Today as an external examiner- all within just one year.

What’s next? :)