“Finding your community within the larger place you're at, I think, is something that helped me. I think once I found my group of people or my community at college is what helped me a lot.” - Pioneer alumnus Rahil 
This episode of Uncharted, the Pioneer Alumni Podcast, features Ishaan, who conducted research at Pioneer in 2020 in math, interviewing Rahil, who conducted research at Pioneer in 2016 in math. Rahil is a software engineer at Uplimit and a former engineer at Silicon Valley startups Snowflake and Neeva.  Originally from India, Rahil has successfully navigated adapting to US university culture, obtaining a job in the US, and adjusting to life and work in the San Francisco Bay Area. Rahil shares his insights on managing stress and having self drive, and how that helped him succeed in the college admission process and as a computer science and business-economics and management major at Caltech university. Rahil sheds light on the importance of community and belonging, advice on getting internships in general and in computer science specifically, and shares with us his experience in different projects in his field. If you are interested in machine learning, research, finding an internship, or the daily life of software engineers, this episode is definitely for you!
To hear more from Rahil and his advice on getting internships in general and in computer science specifically, listen to the reel here! For more valuable insight from Rahil, you can listen to the “long format” episode through the link in our bio. For key sharings, choose the “short format” episode. 

About Uncharted: the Pioneer Academics Alumni Podcast
Uncharted: the Pioneer alumni podcast is hosted and produced by alumni of the Pioneer Research Program, a virtual research institute for outstanding high school students. Widely respected for its high standards in selectivity and academic rigor, it is the only fully-accredited and college-credit bearing online research program. In Pioneer, students work one-on-one with university professors in advanced study and research of a topic of their interest ranging from physics to gender studies, culminating in a full-length, undergraduate-level research paper. 
Uncharted was featured by FeedSpot as a top alumni podcast! You can see the list of selected alumni podcasts here: https://podcasts.feedspot.com/alumni_podcasts/ and in the “Top alumni podcasts” link in our bio on Instagram @Pioneer_Academics.

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