Life as a constant learning process is one of its most profound truths. From our earliest days, we learn through exploration and curiosity, discovering the world and our place in it. As we grow older, every experience, challenge, success, and failure provides us with new insights. Mistakes, often seen as setbacks, become some of our most valuable lessons, teaching resilience, patience, and humility.

Seeing life as a continuous journey of learning has kept me open-minded and embrace new experiences with enthusiasm, albeit even very mundane ones. It has allowed me to live not only with curiosity but also with purpose, as each lesson learned has made me a better version of myself.

In my late 20s, I pursued my Masters in EE from Stanford University, to expand my tech learning. Much thanks to Suresh, my husband, who was my role model and motivated me to join the Masters program. I was diagnosed with my first cancer during the middle of the program. Not the one to get fazed, finished my treatments and continued again to finally graduate in 2006. It was very meaningful to have been a panelist at the 70th anniversary of HCP program, sharing our career trajectories and insights with other alumnis.

Masters might have been done in 2006,but life lessons still continue….