This content originally appeared on DEV Community and was authored by pratim chakraborty
I am kind of ranting here so Je suis désolé…
This year was kind of rough on me, both the year and me. I graduated in May 15 of this year.
No internships or job offers because I wasn’t proactive enough.
Whenever I would finish my practical in cs lab and do leetcode my professor would just scream at me and kick me out of the class.
Commuting to college, going to the gym , meal prep, taking care of sick grandma , assignments , exam preps, getting 20 k steps a day consumed all of my attention and time. Plus my social media doom scrolling didn’t help.
As a wise man once said “The chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken” . I am the living example of that.
It is very easy to let go of discipline, routine that makes someone great. When chaos or entropy eventually gets in the way of your idealized version of life, do you persevere or quit, and that is the deciding factor.
Moving on I think it’s my responsibility to rise above the hurt and chaos. I owe it to my future self, I am worth it.
My current plan :
->finish core cs syllabus and select chapters of it in 2 months
->practice abundant questions from said chapters and subjects.
->Finish neetcode 150 and couple of more FAANG based questions.
->Bring my project ideas to life and put them in my portfolio
->Ask for references and confidently clear interviews.
->Maybe start a devlog yt channel.
If you read this I am very grateful.
This content originally appeared on DEV Community and was authored by pratim chakraborty