Leapfrogging into Success: My Journey as a Student Partner so far!

Leapfrog Technology has been my ideal company for as long as I have started coding. One day I was just randomly scrolling through Facebook, and there it was the announcement for "Leapfrog Student Partnership Program 2023". Although I had seen glimpses of this program the past year, I didn't get a chance to apply last year, and I said to myself "Yo paali chai apply garnai parcha".

To peeps who don't know what Leapfrog Student Partnership Program is, it is a future-oriented program aiming to help IT and engineering students build their career paths and create an impact in the tech community. As a Leapfrog Student Partner, you will serve as an opinion leader and an influencer to engage and connect with. To know more visit this link.

So I started waiting around for the registrations to open. Gosh, it felt like days were going by slower and slower. Everyday I would check Leapfrog's Facebook page 2-3 times just to make sure that the registrations were open or not. Clearly I was too excited in participating in this program. I started researching more about this program, reached out to LSPP 2022 members, one of whom fortunately happened to be my own friend. So I asked him more about the program and what were the things that this program will teach me. He told me that this program would help me achieve my goals and make myself more in line with the Tech-Industry. I got even more pumped after hearing all the awesome things in the program.

Finally the day came, the day when LSPP 2023 Registrations were opened. As soon as I saw that the registrations were opened, I hurriedly opened the registration page and started filling out the form. I remember being too excited and writing a 3 page answer for a question :rofl:. I feel sorry for the peeps who had to review my application 😛 .

After I submitted the form, anxiety and some nervousness started growing inside me. Being an overthinker I am, I started thinking "Interview ma k sodhne hola", "Will I be selected", etc, etc. Then again it felt like time was going by so slowly. First I was refreshing the Leapfrog's Facebook page 2-3 times a day, and now I was here refreshing my Gmail inbox 5-6 times a day, hoping for a positive response.

After ~10 days of grueling waiting, the moment I was waiting for so patiently came, "Selected for Video Interview". Gosh I was so scared and anxious at this point in time. But I mustered up all my courage and gave all that I had in the interview :). I remember Pranjali Di taking the interview and I was super chill during the interview suprisingly. Whenever I gave other interviews, I got so nervous but suprisingly when it comes to your dream company, things just go merrily.

I was pretty nervous about the outcomes of the interview. Then again the process of never ending waiting began. This was even more nerve-wracking than the previous times I had to wait. I was so impatient that I even started asking about the result of the interview process on LeapNetwork Discord server :rofl:.

Then finally the moment of truth came. I just randomly opened my Gmail one morning (or was it evening?...I forgot) and boom there it was, the LSPP 2023 Acceptance Mail. I was so pumped and full of excitement that I shouted out loud "Yessssss!".

Then the date for the LSPP Orientation was announced. Fortunately, I had a trip planned to Kathmandu and the orientation happened to be in the same time frame. I was so excited for the Orientation that I arrived ~2 hours(12:00 PM) early even though the meeting was scheduled for 2:00 PM. Meeting all the amazing student partners and all the amazing mentors of the program was pretty great.

Sincerely, I wanna thank the team behind Leapfrog Student Partner Program for this opportunity. So this was the overall experience of getting selected as a Leapfrog Student Partner for 2023.

Thank you all for reading. Have a good day(or night depends on when you are reading this 😛 ). Peace ☮️