Hello people! I know you would want to hit me hard in the face for not writing a blog for a week (I know I am not that important but I can always pretend so 😁) but I will be as honest I can in this one.
What happened to my excitement?
My excitement is at its place but my end semester exams are coming close. Due to them I have to slow down my blogs a bit and also sacrifice my ubuntu exploration 🥲. So just like any good engineering student, I also over burdened myself with a ton of heavy courses this semester along with a number of other side activities (yeah, I also wanted to type the word side-kick here 😂). So now if I do not get to studying, the examiners in the exam hall will laugh looking at my blank answer shit (that is not a typo!).
But I want to geniuinely…
Hello people! I know you would want to hit me hard in the face for not writing a blog for a week (I know I am not that important but I can always pretend so 😁) but I will be as honest I can in this one.
What happened to my excitement?
My excitement is at its place but my end semester exams are coming close. Due to them I have to slow down my blogs a bit and also sacrifice my ubuntu exploration 🥲. So just like any good engineering student, I also over burdened myself with a ton of heavy courses this semester along with a number of other side activities (yeah, I also wanted to type the word side-kick here 😂). So now if I do not get to studying, the examiners in the exam hall will laugh looking at my blank answer shit (that is not a typo!).
But I want to geniuinely continue this exploration as I have recently fallen in love — with Operating Systems 🙃 and I do plan to change my career in that direction. So you’d say, what is the worst you could have done in your life that you have to give up your passion right? I thought the same a month ago 🫠
Why should passion suffer?
So the dumbest thing I can do to help my future self is take a course so tough it literally questions my existence!
Currently, in my third year, I’ve somehow managed to stack:
9 college courses ☠️,
An internship (yes, it pays 😎),
IEEE student branch work,
and a programming club role
So yeah... I probably shouldn’t have started this blog series with that much on my plate. But honestly? I’m glad I did. Because even if I had to pause at Day 2 — I know I’ll be back after 7th December (post-exams 🫠).
What are my plans next?
So my next plans are a change of mind, I think tinkering with the sl command might teach me something new but the journey feels a bit slow to me. So maybe I will make some small changes and get to exploring how to package this command into a .deb which is I think a good achievement. After I finish that, I am planning to create a new issue on ubuntu for their emoji menu looking so bad. If the maintainer is in a good mood I may get assigned or my issue might get deleted 😶🌫️. In that case... I will create another issue! No issues from my side 😂
And for the long term plans, I was thinking of understanding the internals of ubuntu, like how memory management and all works but I know my interests will change (can’t blame me, I am a Gemini 😅 — not Google Gemini, my zodiac sign in Gemini) but those interest changes will be local, in a global view I would like to pursue a career in OS development or System Design since both are my favourites!
And also, you may see some delay in blogs in december since I will be going out for a vacation! So yeah, I have asked for a leave officially and you have to approve it (please 😅).
Now what?
Now what, nothing, go back to work while I go back to studying, we don’t have much time to spare remember? Or atleast I do not 🙃 So hang in tight, since everytime I remember this blog series, I get an adrenaline rush and I promise myself that I have to make the ubuntu emoji picker the best one yet!!
In case, you have any interesting idea, please let me know in the comments and if you are as crazy as me I would even try that out!
Thanks for reading through! Sayonara!