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 4-MAR |
|---|---|---|
| Internet of Things GP | Group project | Passed  |
| Business Intelligence GP | Individual project | Passed |
| Data Mining GP | Group project | Passed |
| Client-side tech GP | Individual projects + group project | Passed |
| Data modelling GP | Individual project | Passed |
| Server-side tech GP | Group project | Continuing with the client side group and project |
| Legal aspects of IT | Individual project | Got to pick a topic |
| Grammars and Languages | Solo projcet | Gotta pick a topic |
| Systems Integration | Group project | Got a topic and group, chipping away on this bs |
| Big data processing | Group project | Got my group, picked a topic of F1, working on it |
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. I am 1/3 of the way there. I really pushed
through and I do believe I can hand in 2/3 of my thesis by the end of January. I still need to have it done
by late March, meaning at least 60 pages of text, with all the technical stuff like formatting of the text, the
citations and stuff like that.
EDIT 2-MAR : The deadline to hand in my thesis is at the end of March. I am taking time off my work to focus on this,
ideally I want to finish all the writing in the following two weeks, (possible but hard AF and I don't want to do
anything tbh), and focus on the techincal details in the second part of the month. Wish me luck.
EDIT 4-MAR : It may be possible to finish most of the writing this week, with finishig touches and formalities
sometime by the middle of the next week, hopefully.
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