Title: I&#x27;m a student of VIT University, India. Everyone in our country, from academia to industry, looks at us as second class undergrads.<p>I&#x27;m passionate about solving problems and making things, especially AI and game development. But due to some bad decisions I ended up dropping two years after high school and could not get into the IITs i.e. the top colleges in India. Ever since I started college and found the sub-par level of CS education here, I have tried to take my education into my own hands. I&#x27;m an autodidact by choice and here is the strategy that I have followed for the past one and half years at college:<p>- MOOC : 
I have studied all the important CS courses from popular MOOCs like CS50, MIT OCW, etc. I have earned a certification in an AI MOOC taught by the IITs and completed the Machine Learning course from Coursera too.<p>- Projects : 
I have done some good projects and open sourced them at https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;AmanDaVinci<p>- Others : 
I have worked as a two man team to publish a game on Play Store and we also sell our plugins, tools and assets on Unity3D asset store. I have organized and instructed successful game development workshops as I plan to start a Game Dev club in our college.<p>Considering the experience and expertise of the HN crowd in the engineering field, what more could I do to be at par with the top students of the world?<p>1) Should I invest in AI &#x2F; ML nano degree certificates?<p>2) Should I work more on real software projects like open source AI and games?<p>3) Can I do anything else to improve myself?
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