Lost Art of 2024

January 3rd, 2025 (about 1 month ago) • 2 minutes

Sunset after coming back from Costco

I am back writing on my blog after a hiatus 6 months ago - when I reached SF. It's a little of both being busy and lazy that I find myself not writing anymore.

I missed it.

Despite how smart the human brain is, we still forget things. If you asked me what happened on this day 1 year ago, I probably need to search your calendar or social media to find out.

Memory is finite. I want to remember things.

Starting with today.

Today is the first class for the semester - I thougth it's going to be easy since it's only 1 class during this intersession. I was so wrong! It's a quiz and homework every class 😮‍💨 And each class is 3 hours long...

Since I am graduating in 6 months, that means job searching too has to happen in parallel too. I have never job search as an international student, and seeing how you need 300+ application to get 1 offer, it's a little daunting.

I caught myself looking onto levels.fyi and blind a lot to see what's going on in the job market. But all I see are TCs everywhere. Is that what everyone is chasing?

So what I am doing? I know I want to target data engineering jobs, so I am focusing my time on prepping ala leetcode, sql, DE nuances and system design. These take a lot of time, and I find myself asking if I should say no to certain events to just focus on this.

B tells me that I should not sacrifice my social life for this 😂

Despite all this, I think I just want to minimize regrets. I want to do all the prep I can do, so that when the time comes, I can say I did my best.

No regrets. I hate regrets.