IIIT Dharwad has constantly improved its performance over the years. If I look back, I wouldn't have worked as hard and received one-on-one guidance in any other institute. Students over here adapt to the challenges and overcome them, making them strong human beings and skilled experts.
It has to be my friend group and one professor in particular, Dr. Manjunath sir who helped me with a lot of opportunities. I'm in touch with these guys till now, which shows how much these people mean to me.
I used to believe that knowledge is everything. However, learning things won't make you witty. Besides knowledge, give importance to developing problem solving skills, be it competitive programming, mathematical problems related to probability and statistics, or just brain teasers.