Are you an Undergraduate?
Looking to be the best among others?
My life journey will be a boost to your career.
I started to write this blog way back in 2016 during my 1st year. This was started with 2 friends. But ultimately, both of them left blogging and I continued to blog.
The main purpose of this blog was to provide past paper answers to question papers of SLIIT. I had that aim mainly because we found it difficult to find answers to questions in past papers. So I thought to write answers and publish them here, so juniors and batch mates would benefit from it.
But after a few years of time, I stopped posting answers due to the criticism that came to me from a few people in SLIIT. I felt like why should I waste time and help those types of buggers to pass the exams 😀
If you are just starting at SLIIT or where ever, try to help the people. You'll be criticized, hated and even be an enemy to a few people.
Ok! that's enough about the boring old stories. Let's get into the point.
Before coming to SLIIT, I had completed the BCS. It gave me a real boost in the studies at SLIIT.
You won't believe after A/L's I wanted to do Engineering 😂. But when I went through the Engineering course amount at SLIIT, it was really expensive for me to bear. So I decided to do a computing degree which was manageable. What a turnaround in my life.
Once I join SLIIT, the course amount was Rs.115, 000. If you don't know, SLIIT is providing scholarships for the best people in the batch. Either half schol(GPA>3.7) or Full schol(GPA>3.9).
Half schol worth half of the semester fee and Full schol worth full semester fee.
I'm happy to say for the entire 4 years at SLIIT, I paid less than 2 lakhs. Most of the semesters were free for me :)
Thereby my parents didn't need to spend a single penny on my degree at the beginning.
During the 1st year at SLIIT, I came across a platform called Fiverr. It was a freelancing platform and didn't know much about it.
I just created an account and put some GIGS and waited for something to happen. But nothing interesting happened. 😜
Later that year, I got a message from a person from the USA asking if I can help to do his assignment in Java. As I was thorough in Java, I took the order worth $30 as I remember.
That was my very first order in Fiverr. I still remember that moment. I was really happy and I even showed that to my Mom as well. She had no clue what so ever 😰
With time, I was able to develop my profile and earn a good amount of money. For everything, I spend my own money and my parents didn't have to spend a single penny.
Now I'm working on Fiverr, Adsense, E-bay, and many other platforms and earning a good amount of money as my passive income!
My advice for everyone is that try to create your own side business and earn. Don't wait until the degree to be over and get a job to do your work!
That's enough boosting about myself I guess 😆
Getting back to the SLIIT journey, for every exam I didn't went to study hard. There is no need if you're doing an IT degree. If you know the essence, it is very easy.
For the 1st 2 years at SLIIT, I did old past papers as well. Mainly due to the aim of posting them on the blog and some questions were repeated from the old past papers.
Apart from 1st 2 years, I rarely attended the lectures. But I say, please attend lectures. 😰
I still remember the very 1st lecture I attended. It was done by Ms. Namalie Walgampaya. Her C++ lecture took me to a different world. From that moment, I got the motivation that I wanted to be the best and finally, I'm.
It's not easy to be the best performer in the Software Engineering Batch with many talented people around you!
Try harder, nothing is impossible!
To answer the question, did I continuously do well?
No! I had some ups and downs. It was the 3rd year 2nd semester as I remember. I was doing my internship. That period was really stressful and I did manage to get only a GPA of 3.5 for that semester. It was the foremost the lowest I ever had taken.
I will show you my results later at this post but keep in mind everyone has downs. The real strength is that you come over them.
Finally, I managed to get a CGPA of 3.9 and WGPA of 3.88 and become the Best Performer of Software Engineering batch passing 120+ students.
Finally, what I have to say is do your final year Research project well. It really counts for your final GPA.
This could be the final post that will be posted on this blog. There were so many appreciations that came for this blog. I'm really happy about that. In the end, the amount of time put on this was not gone in vain. If you need any help or have any inquiry you can contact me at LinkedIn or Facebook.
I hope you all have an amazing future ahead. Good Bye!🙆
