Originally Posted by gurlInTech

That’s nice. Ahh I misread a few information. My family background is definitely worse than yours. (Misread monthly income as annual income.) That’s good, I think you have a head-start in terms of financial sense. You can join the open-source community or work on your own projects to boost your portfolio (when you are free). Also study hard in school.

I’ve heard from the interviewer in one of my interviews that some interviewee requested the company to pay off his student loan. I just googled it and it sounds like there are companies doing that. You can start practising on leetcode and hackerrank asap starting from your first year to prep you for your first tech interview. It is just hard work to keep yourself ahead in this competition. The competition will just get harder in your batch of graduates.

Same advice, when you make a decision, just go forward and don’t look back. All the best!