If you want to study CSE, the most important things are creativity, passion, leadership—and of course, remember that CSE is different from any other subject. In many ways, it’s like fine arts or architecture. In most industries, to get a job you need good grades, connections, and often some flattery and politics to survive. That’s how people usually move up.
But in CSE, even if your CGPA is around 2 out of 4, you’ve got a pile of dropped courses, and no certificates—you can still shake the industry if you have creativity, passion, and leadership. Because with that combination, you can become a boss at one thing: programming.
Let me break down why these three matter.
- Creativity: Do ideas keep you up at night? Then you’ll do well in software development. The industry wants creativity. Every day, people want newer technologies. So you need the ability to build new things. Your mind should always be buzzing with ideas. Otherwise, you’ll feel lost when it’s time to do academic projects. In your final year, you won’t even find a good thesis topic—which is sad after three years of study.
- Passion: It’s not enough to have the ability to build something new—you need the desire too. Creative people get discouraged the most. You have to push through that. To break barriers and do something real, passion is essential—and that passion has to be for CSE. If you study CSE but your passion is politics, you won’t get any outcome from CSE. That’s certain.
- Leadership: A leader is a born problem solver. Studying CSE means solving new problems using math logic and the rules of physics. Someone who’s a good problem solver in real life knows how to approach any problem. Also, only a leader can tell you how starting a long task today will pay off ten days later. Where there’s leadership, creativity follows.
You need to dream—and have enough guts to make those dreams real. Without love for the subject, you can’t do well.
Let me share a short example of an older brother. His name is Monir, from SUST CSE, batch 97/98. A bit of a mad genius. He barely attended classes. He spent days and nights building new software. He had lots of dropped courses. His CGPA was below 3. After his batch finished 4/2, he still had many courses left. Even without a certificate, he got a job at Microsoft. Professor Zafar brought him back from America and helped him complete his courses. In conversation, Sir once asked him, “Don’t they say anything about your CGPA and certificates?” Monir bhai replied, “No. They’re afraid that if they do, I might just quit.”
Written by Sudipta Kor – CSE 4/2, SUST.