🎓 Graduation Day

Hey there! ✨

It’s been such a long time since my last post here, that I figured it was honestly about time to come back with some pretty significant updates…

So, I graduated. Like, actually graduated 🤓.

I still kinda can’t believe I’m typing these words, but I officially finished my MSc in Computer Science at Georgia Tech this past December, and it still feels surreal to me when I say it out loud.

Looking back, I gotta say 2023 has been one of the most intense years of my life. I basically decided to just put my head down and finish my master’s while working full-time as a Front-End Engineer, and if you’ve ever tried to do both at once you know that it’s the kind of thing that sounds manageable on paper, and then slowly eats every single evening and weekend you have.

But somehow I made it through, and honestly that still feels a bit unreal.

The graduation ceremony was on December 16th and it was such an emotional day for me. Atlanta was beautifully crisp that morning, with an impossibly clear blue sky, and the campus was full of families and friends in caps and gowns, parents taking way too many pictures (mine very much included!), and everyone just bundled up and smiling. When I walked across the stage and heard my name, it felt almost unreal, like something I had daydreamed about so many times was finally just… happening 🥹.

The last few months before then were honestly pretty brutal though. I had to give it everything I had, and pretty much anything that wasn’t studying or coding kinda disappeared from my life for a while, this blog very much included. It wasn’t glamorous at all, just a lot of late nights and way too much caffeine and telling myself that it would all be worth it in the end.

And looking back now, I’m so grateful I pushed through.

So now we’re in 2024 and I finally feel like I have some space again, both mentally and in terms of actual hours in my day. I have all this energy that’s been bottled up for months and I really wanna channel it into something new. I’ve been thinking a lot about starting more personal projects on the side, building small things, experimenting, and maybe even shipping something that’s entirely mine for once.

Anyhow, more updates coming soon, I promise! This year I really wanna treasure all the knowledge and discipline I built up during my master’s, and turn it into something tangible and creative ✨.

Thank you for reading my dear virtual friend, and stay tuned for more! Cheers 👋