I&#x27;m a senior Computer Science student from Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee. Right now I&#x27;m facing a situation, surrounded with too many thoughts and unable to walk properly.<p>The situation is, some awesome people at my institute are starting up a logistic based platform, which is going to be great (no doubts here). I was asked to join them, I loved the product they have currently.<p>But the other part of the game is, along my journey at the institute here, I have created a passion for Open Source and some exciting fields of the computer science.<p>I (kind of) believe that I come up with too many ideas, ranging from anything to everything, I try to note them down and work on them to reflect them on my GitHub[1] and my blog[2].<p>I have a strong attraction towards &#x27;Data Science&#x27;, &#x27;Systems &amp; Infrastructure&#x27; and &#x27;Distributed Systems&#x27;.<p>Last year, I found out about Datadog[3] while working on the &#x27;GitHub&#x27;s 3rd Data Challenge&#x27;. I immediately loved the organization because it deals with all the things I like(Data &amp; Infrastructure), so I applied for an engineering internship, went through the interview process and got the job. But later things went wrong and I wasn&#x27;t able to go through the visa process.<p>On applying again, being pessimistic I think about not getting the visa (H1-B) this time too.<p>Initially I wasn&#x27;t interested in studying higher but now I&#x27;m getting a feeling for it, not because I&#x27;m out of other options, just because I have some things in my list(to-do) relating to academia and I would love to see them happening. Although I can&#x27;t go for it anytime soon, because I don&#x27;t have that much money.<p>So the situation is, what to do? The Startup is going to be awesome, their product is great but I&#x27;m lacking a strong ignition towards it, that I see while working on my own little projects. Not sure if it&#x27;s because of my addiction towards it.<p>[1] https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;pravj&#x2F;
[2] http:&#x2F;&#x2F;pravj.github.io&#x2F;blog&#x2F;
[3] https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.datadoghq.com&#x2F;
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