Rao Ubaid Ullah

Academic

Career

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Rao Ubaid Ullah (18I-0504) 
 
My journey at FAST started when I first heard about the name “FAST” in one of the motivational 
lectures held at my college. As a computer enthusiast from the beginning, I wanted to choose the 
best of the best. And that’s what we were told that FAST is the best university in Pakistan for 
Computer Science. It was then, that I decided it was FAST I want to study in. 
At the start, a couple of semesters were hard since I had to become used to the semester system 
and the workload of FAST. Even though I had a head start since I had done programming in a few 
languages before, still that wasn’t good enough to make me a high achiever. In the beginning, I 
thought getting an A in my programming courses is good enough, I just didn’t aim high. But it took 
me 5 semesters to realize that it’s actually possible to score all As’ and all that one need is 
consistency and not taking any of the course for granted. If I get the opportunity to advise my 
juniors, I would say the same thing.  
“You all can become high achievers, Aim high and Work Hard! Believe me, you can do it too!” 
The ground for learning was very intuitive and teachers always had our back by pointing us in the 
right direction. The thing that I liked about the education environment the most was that, unlike 
other universities, we were given the bare minimum of information regarding our tasks and 
assignment. We had to figure most of the things out on our own. This might have made things 
difficult for most of the students but I always liked the challenge. Yeah, it did become stressful 
sometimes and did cost me some all-nighters, but in the end, it was worth it. The effort required to 
complete those tasks when delivered properly had a great learning impact on us. As a guy working 
in an industry, I see myself standing out among students from other universities.  
Regarding side activities, it has been slightly unfortunate for my batch. We only got to see 1 
NASCON before 2022 due to COVID. But even then, that one event was very fun. I did participate in 
a lot of the events and never had such an amazing experience before. In the 7th semester, we also 
had our final year trip. That was such a great experience for me as well since it was the first time for 
me to visit all those northern areas and spend such quality time knowing my classmates.  
All of these are the memories I cannot forget ever and I really want to thank FAST for bringing all of 
us together and providing such a beautiful and educative environment for us.