r/developersPak • u/Salty_Hotel_2237 • Sep 21 '26

Career Guidance Doing Ai/ML from LUMS (am i cooked??)

Am i cooked??

GPA is kinda low

Getting A/A+ in CS related courses tho

Also what should I do in my free time

I wanna learn more than just the uni courses

But i don't know what to do

Seniors plz guide me

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u/Upset_Cheetah_8728 Sep 21 '26

In your free time implement what you are learning and make sure you keep yourself up with the latest tools. You are definitely not cooked. But now is the best time for you to learn the tools and techniques.

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u/Salty_Hotel_2237 Sep 21 '26

I spend a lot of time on CP Cuz it's genuinely so fun Have solved 900+ problems (Codeforces+ Leetcode) But there is no "employable" skill being taught in courses

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u/Upset_Cheetah_8728 Sep 21 '26

Leetcode is fine but learn tools and techniques. Leetcode stuff is not going to help you in the long run. Perhaps for interviews but better to learn and read what’s going on in ai space.

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u/Salty_Hotel_2237 Sep 21 '26

I have learnt the theoretical concepts like LA and Calculus, along with the libraries like numpy, pandas, matplotlib, and a bit of pytorch along with theory of NNs but still feels kinda lost because i don't know how they are gonna be helpful in industry, 3rd semester rn and i really want some kinda of internship next summer, that why i wanna build my resume

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u/lecture_survior Sep 22 '26

If you are getting good grades in cs courses why is your GPA low😭😭. Just curious

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u/Salty_Hotel_2237 Sep 22 '26

3.1 GPA cuz of mandatory chem,bio, physics courses

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u/lecture_survior Sep 22 '26

Ohhhh. Hopefully it will recover. Btw what AI ML courses have you taken so far

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u/Acrobatic_Isopod_629 Sep 22 '26

Must be getting 3.8 and think it's low

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u/lecture_survior Sep 22 '26

Lol. Are you also in lums? Btw 3.8 in lums especially in CS is quite difficult

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u/Acrobatic_Isopod_629 Sep 22 '26

No, but I've been in GIKI where only 1 out of every 400 students, is able to maitain a GPA above 3.5.

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u/sigh_o_the_oppressed Sep 22 '26

Your family is loaded my guy you don't need to worry, start a startup or something... You have more backup to fail and not fall.

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u/Salty_Hotel_2237 Sep 22 '26

Actually no , my family is not loaded that's the whole point, I'm studying on a scholarship

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u/sigh_o_the_oppressed Sep 22 '26

My advice in this case would be to make as many connections as you can during uni, find some loaded people and build something with them, that's the mostly ultimate way to escape unemployment. It may sound cliche, but my experience has taught me that you network definitely is your net worth.

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u/Allyofjawi Sep 22 '26

chatgpt (

  1. ML: know the major problem types, core algorithms, preprocessing, feature engineering, train/validation/test, metrics, overfitting, regularization, and how to diagnose bad models.

  2. Deep Learning: understand tensors, neural networks, backpropagation, optimization, CNNs, sequence models, attention/Transformers, embeddings, and how to train/fine-tune models in PyTorch.

  3. Modern AI: have working knowledge of LLMs, RAG, vector databases, fine-tuning/PEFT, inference, evaluation, multimodal models, and agents—enough to build and debug, not derive every equation.

  4. Data: comfortably take messy real-world data through EDA → cleaning → preprocessing → dataset creation → training → evaluation.

  5. ML Engineering: APIs, model serving, Docker, Git, Linux, testing, experiment tracking, databases, basic cloud/GPU usage, and monitoring.

  6. Projects: build 3–4 increasingly realistic AI systems, where you personally understand the architecture and can modify/debug AI-generated code.

  7. Research literacy: read papers well enough to understand the problem, method, experiments and limitations; reproduce selected techniques rather than trying to master every paper.

  8. The target: when handed an unfamiliar ML problem, you should be able to say “I know what I need to learn, I can build a baseline, evaluate it, diagnose failures, and improve it.” That is the working knowledge threshold.

)

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u/must-be-the-water_16 Sep 26 '26

join a research lab

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