DIT Excellence Award — 2nd position in college

§ Why a commerce student enrolled in a technology diploma

When I began the first year of my Diploma of Commerce, most people around me were choosing a single track and staying on it. I chose two. Alongside D.Com, I enrolled in the Diploma in Information Technology (DIT) at the same institution — the Government College of Commerce (College of Management Sciences-II), Ring Road Peshawar — because I had already noticed something that has only become more obvious since: every field of life is being reshaped by technology, and business is being reshaped fastest of all.

Accounting today is not quill pens and paper ledgers. It is computerised accounting systems, spreadsheets, databases, ERPs and — increasingly — automation and AI. I did not want to be the professional who merely operates those tools at the surface level. I wanted to understand how they are built, what they can and cannot do, and where they are going. The DIT was the most direct route to that understanding, and the busiest two years of my education so far.

§ First term: the foundations, one concept at a time

The DIT’s first term built the base layer. Introduction to ICT framed how computers, networks and the internet actually fit together — knowledge I now use every single week. Introduction to MS Office turned Word, Excel and PowerPoint from casual familiarity into genuine professional skill, and Excel in particular has proven to be the accountant’s most loyal companion. Computer Networks and Operating Systems demystified the machinery underneath — 76 and 81 marks respectively — and Introduction to Programming was where everything clicked: 92 out of 100, one of my highest scores in the entire diploma.

Programming rewired how I think. Writing my first lines of code taught me the same lesson double-entry bookkeeping teaches: precision matters, structure matters, and a small error early causes a big failure late. The first term closed at 405 out of 500 (81%) — a strong start that set the tone for what followed.

§ Final term: databases, design and a shipped capstone

The final term is where theory became craft. Database systems (84/100) taught me how structured data actually lives — tables, keys, relationships — which is exactly how modern accounting software stores every transaction. Web Development Essentials (80/100) gave me the internet’s building blocks, and Graphic Design (80/100) sharpened the eye I later used for every presentation, document and interface I produce.

Then came the subject I will always remember fondly: Video Editing, 93 out of 100. There is something deeply satisfying about cutting a story together frame by frame — and something very accounting-like about it too, since both are really about arranging raw material so the result makes sense. And finally, the Capstone Project — 92/100 — where my brother and I built and deployed Handy Tools, a real, live website. That project later became the foundation for LearnFinity.

§ What this award means to me

On paper, this is a certificate for a diploma in information technology. In truth, it is the certificate for a decision — the decision to carry two programmes at once, through overlapping exams and deadlines, while still refusing to settle for average in either. Balancing D.Com and DIT simultaneously demanded serious time management, and it taught me a lesson no textbook contains: discipline compounds, exactly like interest.

Professionally, this award represents my differentiator. When I sit in a BS Accounting & Finance classroom and read about accounting information systems, FinTech or automation, I am not reading a foreign language — I have written code, designed databases and shipped web products myself. When the profession moves further toward AI-assisted bookkeeping and blockchain-era triple-entry accounting, I intend to move with it, not behind it.

§ The certificate

Presented by the Government College of Commerce (College of Management Sciences-II), Peshawar, in recognition of “outstanding academic excellence and securing the 2nd Position in Diploma in Information Technology” — dated 28 September 2025.