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So its actually fine and I shouldn’t be nervous

I’m just a young vai trying to graduate college

I’ma pull up like this

Idek what's happening

Listen, it's been a long 10-15 days. But what's worse is that they felt like 5 days. Because my brain is laggier than our ERP website during result day overload. Or maybe brain did a massive mind wipe without my permission to cope. Oh well.

I'm trying to search my recycle bin to find any leftover data about what happened and when so here it goes:

Feb 14-15: I think I just finished some assignments? And I had my soft computing exam on 16th so I was prepping for that ig

Feb 16-18: okay so Monday was exam day but I did manage to submit one assignment which was past due (actually all the assignments were past due, I don't care about due dates anymore). But I was submitting at least 3 assignments everyday and also on 17th i had another test that I screwed up :'D. I remember being absolutely dead on 18th because my period started and they're extremely painful these days for some reason :')

Feb 19-20: I had a day off on 19th so I utilised it to work on my very first pentesting report. I basically did a speed run on most popular active scanning tools on kali. Then I battled with MS word to make the report. I also had to make a poster on it so I spent 4 hours on canva. ALSO CLOUDFARE DECIDED TO GO DOWN RIGHT AFTER I WAS DONE WITH MY REPORT WHICH SUCKS BECAUSE THE WEBSITE I WAS WORKING ON USED CLOUDFLARE AND IT WAS THE PERFECT OPPORTUNITY TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF IT (ETHICALLY just to find vulnerabilities) AGHHHHhhh. Brain was fried but hey atleast the poster came out pretty? Here's a snippet that doesn't have the high risk vulnerabilities (Won't be showing that for legal reasons lol)

Feb 21-22: I had to present my report and it went alright. My prof kinda misinterpreted one of my answers to her questions so it was kinda awkward. But at least it's done now. I did submit several assignments that day too, including the Olympics data analysis streamlit app cuz wooohoo Olympics 2026. And on 22nd I was prepping for my probabilistic graphical model exam which took up the whole day

Feb 23-26 (present) : okay so 23 was exam day ofc, I also was one of the few idiots who attended the finance lecture that day. Look, we have 4 hours of finance lecs every monday (right after we gave our exam. Or 2 exams. Depends which monday) with no breaks and our prof can get pretty insufferable at times and he's highly interactive so you can't even zone out in his class cuz his laser detector eyes will somehow catch you and then he will turn you into his standup comedy bit in front of the whole class which is not so fun. But anyways one assignment was still submitted this day. On 24th I skipped all my classes to sleep, even though I had a test that day. Turns out everyone else had the same idea so they cancelled the test i think. Long live the power of unintentional mass bunk. Then on 25th we did have classes again but everyone was attending an event that my friends also dragged me into and I had to walk around in a saree for 7 hours straight and by the time I reached home I was basically dead with all the muscle pain, but nope you still gotta submit assignments even if you're dead. I'm still kinda dead. But I will recover soon.

OH ALSO. I joined an "internship", I say that in quotes because it's very sus. They were asking to join in groups and my friends dragged me into this mess. But I'm using this as an opportunity to do some investigative journaling on these "companies" and their stupid practices (I kinda wanna make a yt video on it cuz it's a growing problem in India and it pisses me out enough for it to be a detailed 2 hour deep dive but my schedule doesn't even allow me to eat 3 meals a day so it might just be a messy long Tumblr post with no reach lol)

The Ugly Truth About Unpaid Internships

Internships: a time-honored tradition in which young professionals gain valuable career experience and skills they can’t learn in the classroom. Internships are widely recognized as a great way to boost your resume and get a leg up over your peers in the job market. For many industries, they’re a rite of passage and an invaluable part of the workforce.

Yet there’s something horribly wrong with most internships as we operate them here in the bestest country on Earth.

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Can't a guy just like doing something, and apply for jobs that offter them money for doing that thing, and then get hired, without having to explain their inner brain science about what specifically they like about programming?

What are you, a needy romantic partner? You want to know exactly what I like about your job, in detail? No. Fuck off. This is a professional goddamned relationship and I should not have to hyperanalyze and write about EXACTLY why I want to do the job, in order to get hired. You wanna know why I want the job? Because I imagined myself doing the job, and in that imaginary scene I was happy. Why? Because programming makes me happy.