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Harshit Pathak

HARSHIT
PATHAK

I like physics, building things, and space.

I'm from India. Most of what I do is learn hard science and try to turn it into real hardware — messy prototypes, failed solder joints, the occasional win. I want to work on stuff that matters here, not copy-paste Silicon Valley cosplay.

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01 / TRACE

A bit of backstory

When I was small

Breaking stuff on purpose

I used to open every remote in the house. Not to break them — I genuinely thought I'd find a secret inside. Magnets confused me for years. I'd stare at a glass of water with a pencil looking "bent" and get annoyed nobody explained it properly.

Teen years

Textbooks weren't enough

School physics felt like memorizing recipes. So I'd stay up watching lecture videos, scribbling math I only half understood, then try something dumb with wires the next day. That's when it stopped being "subjects" and started feeling like something I actually wanted to do with my life.

Now

Still figuring it out

I'm not claiming I'm building rockets tomorrow. Right now it's small builds — sensors, circuits, experiments at home, reading about orbits and propulsion until my head hurts. Slow, real, and very much still learning. But it's mine.

02 / TEACH

I taught physics in 10th & 12th

Random detail about me: in 10th and 12th I spent a lot of time helping classmates and younger kids who were stuck. Nobody paid me. I just liked it.

Funny thing — you think you know a topic until a 15-year-old asks "but why does the force point that way?" and your brain freezes. I had to go back, simplify, draw ugly diagrams on paper. That's when formulas stopped being magic spells and started making sense to me too.

Explaining things to others fixed my own gaps. Still does.

03.1 / CRITIQUE

Honest take on school (nursery–12th)

I went through the usual Indian school system. It gave me discipline, sure. But it rarely made me think.

Too much "write this exact answer." Not enough "go measure something and see if you're wrong." I got good at exams. I didn't always get good at understanding. Those are different skills and we pretend they're the same.

If you were the kid who asked too many questions — yeah, I was too. Teachers got tired. I get it now, but it still sucked.

03.2 / REJECT

Why I'm skipping the coaching rat race

Everyone around me was signing up for JEE prep like it was the only door. I looked at it and thought: two years of my life doing the same question types over and over, while my actual interests (building, space, real physics) sit on pause?

I'm not saying exams are evil. Some people thrive there. I just know myself — I'd burn out copying tricks instead of learning deeply. I'd rather be bad at one path and good at what I actually care about.

That's my call. Might be wrong. But it's honest.