2022-2023 yearly summary

2023-06-16

Hi, we meet again. Today I turned 21, so it is time for another yearly summary. What this also means is that i can finally procure alcohol leagally. So i'm currently writing this summary after downing two-third of a bottle of ice wine.

Mt Rainier Mount Rainier, by me

What have i acheived

School & work

  • I've finally got into the informatics major
  • I've taken several coding classes and CS class that covers topic like full stack development, AI, algorithms, and data science.
  • I've gotten myself a summer intership here at seattle.

Relationship

  • My relationship with Aileen is still going and its going quite well
  • I've made several new friend from groups projects in class and other activites such as mario kart competition.

Technical achivements

  • I've learned how to do full stack development.
  • I've got in touch with all of the basic CS algorithm that will pop up in SWE interviews
  • I've largely automized antzed.com, this includes writing two preprocessors for the website in Rust.
  • I've learned the basics concept of AI
  • I've learned the basics of data science using python
  • I've learned and incorperated tools like ChatGPT into daily coding.
  • I've established personal twitter using memos and personal library using kavita
  • I've lightly contributed to serveral repository on github.

Goals for next year

  • apply and get into a good grad school
  • reading more on the various of other programming jobs besides SWE, such ML, Quant and game engine dev.
  • continue my relationship with Aileen
  • Drive around more
  • Write more on various things now that the process is heavely automized.
  • exercise more and drink more water
  • Find my passion

Last thoughts

This year is an interesting year, because I finally got used to the live in the US. However, my current lifestyle is only kept alive by my parents' "generous donation, and will probably crumble after i graduate, so we will see what will happens.

I've also gotten used to the idea of working, and finally started to enjoying the process of bettering myself. My cravings for laziness have gradually diminished, and instead is replaced by my curiosity, which is good.

I hope I will become a man that will do great things.

See you next year!