This is a blog post that will probably lean more toward storytelling and personal reflections rather than technical content.
Hey everyone, I'm sure that back when we were young college students studying IT, everyone wanted to find companions to go through university with. For me, that mattered a lot, along with all those daydreams about starting up a startup with a really cool name!
At 18, I failed to get into a "real" university and ended up at a private school that people jokingly call one of the "Big Four remedial schools" That period was pretty rough for me... pressure from family as well as from peers, since most of my high school friends got into top schools.
I did a lot of things to pick myself back up, clinging to the belief that "university means you have to teach yourself", so before starting college I studied ahead quite a bit, even if it wasn't much.
Freshman and sophomore year are the times that, looking back now, I feel were pretty wasted. My rented room back then was about 20km from school, a 30-minute ride if traffic wasn't bad. I'd just go to class and come home with an empty head - even knowing, even knowing that foundational knowledge mattered, that "just enough for now" mindset made me miss out on a lot, especially free time that I could've spent learning English or improving my professional skills, but instead I chose to do pointless stuff that I later ended up telling my juniors not to do. Funny, isn't it!
