The Last Season.
Okay, this is it. The last season. My last year as a university student (for now).
Following might be a bit cringe, but I'm trying to reframe my suffering a bit.
This season consists of 10 GPs, which are:
| Grand Prix | Requirements | Progress as of the end of October |
|---|---|---|
| Internet of Things GP | Group project | Got a team and picked topic |
| Business Inteligence GP | Individual project | Haven't started yet. |
| Data Mining GP | Group project | Got a team and a topic |
| Client-side tech GP | Individual projects + group project | Done with my individual project, halfway there with group project. |
| Data modelling GP | Individual project | Haven't started yet. |
Note: the rest of the GPs will be revealed at the beginning of the next year.
Now my main project, my car this season, is the thesis. I need to have 30 pages done by the end of November.
40-50 by
December, and finish it somewhere between 60-80 by March.
To reach my goal I need both strategy and discipline. The strategy contains:
- SMART tasks
- Time blocking (including guilt-free gaming / youtube time)
- Pomodoro
- Phone rules (no phone in bed / bathroom, uninstalling apps, tech-free mornings when possible...)
- Breaking down goals to small tasks
Now I just gotta follow through with it.
Other things I'd like to do:
- Lock in at work
- Extra project based programming studying
- Enter a calorie deficit
- Daily meditations again
- Calisthenics
What I'm looking forward to this season
- Moving out at the beginning of the next year
- Getting the degree I dreamt of since I was 10
- Joining hackerspaces
- Losing some weight
Summer 2025
Now let me burn through Head first programming real quick. Then I'll look through the OSSU.
Plans for 2025
Happy new year everyone, I am running out of time. I'll finish my studies in summer 2026, by which time I am going to be looking for a job in software development. Now, I already work in tech, I just want to shift my position in companty to developer. But the thing is, I know *some* programiing. I udnerstand some concepts, I can write simple stupid things, and I believe I understant quite well what the computer wants from me. But I am somewhat missing the big picture, the aha moment, my heureka. I don't really know how things work together. And that's what I need to change this year. There is no way around it. I can't afford to fool around now.
Mantra
Course correction is inevitalbe,
as written in this blog post
by Lelouch.
What it means in praxis is that the materials on this page might and probably will change over time.
Materials
Online
My journey is starting with OSSU computer science.
I am pretty sure I'll have to jump to more indepth math someday. At first I resented the thought, I flunked
massively on
integration and derivation back in highschool, but now I'm kinda looking forward to it.
Books
Currently reading:
The Art of Doing Science and Engineering by Richard Hamming, and
Hello World by Hannah Fry