2021 – 2022 yearly summary

2022-06-15

Tomorrow is my birthday so I want to do a summary of the past year. I moved to Seattle last year during September to study at the UW, and this was the first time that I’ve left my home and my parents for more than 3 months. Unfortunately, Covid took a year of college experience away from me, but after I finally got here, the experience was better than I’d expected.

The Drumheller fountain, by me. The Drumheller fountain, by me.

What have i achieved

Important things I’ve Achived

  • I’ve taken and finished many cources during the three quater of school
  • I’ve got myself into a relationship
  • I’ve made new friends in college
  • I’ve managed to independently survive longer than 3 month

Technical achivement

  • I’ve learned to program in SQL and create two database as class project
  • I’ve learned to program in Go, and successfully created a CLI.
  • I’ve dapped into bash scripts, ruby and lua in attempt to create the CLI before using Go
  • Planned and run Husky expo
  • Brought back this blog website

Places I’ve visited

  • Seattle (Space needle and its surroundings)
  • Leavenworth
  • Snoqualamie

Notable Film and shows watched

  • Arcane season 1
  • Station eleven season 1
  • Love Death and Robot season 3
  • Demon Slayer season 2
  • Made in abyss season 1

Challanges

The most difficult part of this year was my adaptation to college life. I thought at the beginning of the year that I was fully capable of handling myself on my own, yet the actual experience was not as smooth. Burnouts were common throughout the year, but I believe through practice I can better manage my time and energy.

It was also quite difficult to find energy to explore beyond my academic life, which I believe is caused by both the loss of comfort(of being at home) and my less than optimal sleeping and exercising routine.

What to look forward to next year

  • More technical work done(project, interns.)
  • More blog posted(target: 10 articles)
  • exercise regularly(at least two to three times a week)
  • Have regular sleeping sechedule.

So, see you in 2023