I got accepted into the master’s program in Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology. I will be moving to US for my further studies at Gatech starting from August’23. Below are someone of the questions I asked myself numerous times and got questioned by others.

Why Masters leaving a cushy job?

With the changing dynamics in the current tech industry. I felt it is the need of hour to reskill myself to stay upto date with latest trends. I did a project related to Machine Learning during my undergrad in 2017. At that time, AI/ML/DataScience were just buzz words and it has risen so much in the recent times that I sometimes wonder what would’ve happened if I continued pursuing in that field after my undergrad. Few people asked why leave a cushy job when you can learn from internet. I tried it for sometime but didn’t feel like I’m giving my 100%. I hope I prove myself that I made the right decision. We will find out soon…

Why Georgia Tech?

It has an OMSCS (Online Masters in CS) program almost similar to oncampus one. They even give the same degree. My thought process was to keep it as a backup plan incase I wanted to come back to India and join back the Industry. On top of that, Georgia Tech is a wellknown university with top 10 ranking in CS. There were other couple of options from UT-Austin, Carnegie but the credits were not transferrable.

Plan after Masters

Work at a company for 4-5 years related to general software engineering, if possible build a product that reaches atleast a 100 users. Move back to India hopefully. Other than this haven’t thought much. Surprises are better.