I made up for the military training that I was late for in my freshman year during the start of my sophomore year, and took the opportunity to set up a blog during the spare time of the military training.
The first article in the blog is about the summary that I have been thinking about for a long time, writing about myself from the college entrance examination to the freshman year, as a memento.
College Entrance Examination
My high school alma mater
Two months before the college entrance examination, I unexpectedly fell ill, unable to concentrate and my sleep was disrupted, and I was on the verge of collapse. During that time, I basically attended classes for two days and took two days off, running to major hospitals in Chongqing. The final answer I got was: it cannot be cured, I can only adapt on my own. When I received the answer, I felt that the whole world was dark. In the end, I returned to school to continue preparing for the college entrance examination, even though I was not in a good state of mind.
One month before the exam, the school held a swearing-in ceremony. I got carried away and rushed to the stage, looking at the audience, I picked up the microphone and passionately spoke, I don't remember what I said, I only remember shouting at the end, "We have studied hard for twelve years, we must not give up."
Throughout the journey, I was told that "the college entrance examination is a turning point in life" and "how important the college entrance examination is". However, when I reached this important fork in life, I did not feel any nervousness or even consider the impact of my long-term low state on it. There was only one thought in my mind: let it end quickly.
On the night when the college entrance examination ended, I suddenly realized that the three years of high school were like a dream. It wasn't until I woke up from the dream that I realized that my three years had ended like this, as if nothing had been left behind.
There was no celebration, no reluctance, just a sense of pale ending.
As expected, my college entrance examination results were not good. I felt a bit unwilling, but I didn't have the courage to fight again.
During that summer vacation, I was more relaxed than ever before. I went to Happy Valley and came back with a hoarse voice for three days. Maybe it was because the mental pressure before the college entrance examination was relatively high, and when I completely let go of this matter, my condition gradually improved.
Freshman Year
Although the Internet market has not been good in the past two years, I have to admit that I feel some anxiety. Sometimes I even joke about "joining the army in 1949". But no matter what, I am still glad to be able to move forward along this path.
First Semester
In the first semester of my freshman year, I spent most of my time in the studio at school. Before enrolling, I heard that there was a good Internet atmosphere at Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications. There are several Internet studios in the school, and it is said that those who can stay in the studio can basically enter good Internet companies, or even big companies. I joined the Blue Mountain Studio as soon as I started school, and chose the golang backend direction.
As a freshman, I attended the courses of the senior students in the studio as a student every weekend. In fact, this is like providing a training program, telling you what you should learn every week, and then you have to study the corresponding technology stack on your own. The time for each class is actually very tight, like Redis and MySQL, RabbitMQ, etc., they are all covered in one class, but in fact, not much can be taught in one class. It all depends on your own efforts, so it feels like progress is fast. Almost all of my spare time, including the time for those classes that I personally think are not very meaningful, I devoted myself to the technical field. Sometimes I would write code and read articles until one or two in the morning, and I made great progress during that time. Because the progress was fast, many people gave up. From the hundreds of people who joined at the beginning, to the dozens of people after three classes, and then to less than 20 people after the winter vacation assessment.
In addition to improving my coding skills, I also met many excellent senior students and like-minded friends in the studio.
I am glad that I was able to stick with it.
Second Semester
In the second semester of my freshman year, the studio still had classes every weekend, but we were already learning some advanced technology stacks, such as server register and opentelemetry. With the accumulation from the first semester of my freshman year, we were already able to do some relatively simple things, and we could also find some projects to practice. I teamed up with a senior student from the same studio and a senior student from the front-end team to participate in a campus-level database design competition and completed a monolithic chat platform project, but we only won a third prize, which was very frustrating.
The last assessment of the second semester of my freshman year was the retention assessment of the Blue Mountain Studio, which determined whether we would stay or leave. The assessment project we started took about seven or eight days, but because we couldn't implement something, we had no choice but to start over. The final project we submitted was completed in just over two days, with a very low completion rate and a limited technology stack. Originally, there was no hope of staying, but our Blue Mountain Studio and Geek Studio's golang department both needed people, so I was lucky enough to stay in Geek Studio. I am grateful to Geek Studio for accepting me.
Looking back on my entire freshman year, I remember the night before the third subject exam, staying in a hotel with my front-end teammate to work on the interface for the winter vacation assessment. I also remember that one afternoon, just before the defense was about to start, I didn't eat lunch or take a nap, and I was still fixing the code. Although most of the time, I was doing things with the mentality of not wanting to fall behind.
I am still glad that I embarked on this path because I know that I am not someone who can calm down. I have come this far because the positive feedback from running each line of code supports me.
Prospects
As for the future? There is no clear plan, it is vague and uncertain.
I will probably spend more time in the upcoming sophomore year brushing up on algorithms, memorizing interview questions, coding more, and working hard to improve myself, hoping to get an internship offer during the summer vacation of my sophomore year.
I hope that on this day next year, I can still look back on the past with at least a positive mindset and look forward to the future.