Now in my career and research I feel I am not alone
Swati Gandhi
In India every higher educated girl is facing some difficulty of choosing the direction after her studies.
One road taking to the job where she have to work out of field
Another road leads her to the academic career, go and teach the half and shallow knowledge.
Third road leads her to the social life where she have to dump her career and have to get settle with family
and
and
Last road was leading her to progress with research.
I thought of opting the fourth option of rising and growing with research.
I thought of opting the fourth option of rising and growing with research.
My selection was research and learning.
to continue my passion in science .
to continue my passion in science .
I passed few months thinking of what to do
and praying to God
to show me the correct place for my dream .
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and praying to God
to show me the correct place for my dream .
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One day my friend called me and asked to meet in college to discuss
some project .
I became very happy .
We met and he said that the
OSDD
is giving an opportunity to work
ONLINE
and collaborative research.
We met and he said that the
OSDD
is giving an opportunity to work
ONLINE
and collaborative research.
I felt like a rebirth, a kind of relief .
My mom and dad sat beside me and gave me the hope .
I can do it.
I got an opportunity to use my knowledge
For the noble cause of finding affordable drug for the
tuberculosis.
***************** As we are a middle class family .
to spend money for doing research
was not at all possible
but
but
OSDD solved my problem as now I can work from
anywhere and everywhere
and
to learn and work ,
anywhere and everywhere
and
to learn and work ,
always in touch with my field
and chase my beloved dreams.
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and chase my beloved dreams.
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Gradually ,
I got a chance to interact with many people
who are contributing their knowledge to OSDD .
I got a chance to interact with many people
who are contributing their knowledge to OSDD .
Many of them are managing it with their daily jobs
may be a scientist may be a college professor
may be a house wife
may be a researcher .
To my surprise
and
the best thing
the best thing
which fascinated me about OSDD
was
that they are (now we are ) not asking for our qualifications
was
that they are (now we are ) not asking for our qualifications
but only our knowledge ,
our devotion ,
our dedication,
our willingness
to serve the humanity.
to serve the humanity.
I was devoting my whole day and night to bring out the best I could.
This helped me to learn a lot & contribute to the
collaborative research world .
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Apart from learning the subject ,it helped me to nurture my qualities by giving me the challenges like finishing a given task on time,
working with the team, managing the groups, validating, curating
There were times when my internet was in trouble my system was with low resources
low speed ,
low bandwidth.
But my passion never got low.
I was trying hard to manage it
and
My group
Helped me to overcome it
to finish the things up.
The fellow mates and all my friends were with me always, I got the time to recover and again I got back to work.
The fellow mates and all my friends were with me always, I got the time to recover and again I got back to work.
Super computing is the award & reward osddians got , as to experience the supercomputing facility was like a dream.
Feeling lucky for getting great experience of it.
I am very thankful
To
the one who initiated the idea of open sourcing.
It is really like a boon to me and will always keep working on it and going to contribute to the best I can in all my life.
swatigandhi19@gmail.com
