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2021: Year in Review

Anushka Raj — Fri, 31 Dec 2021 13:11:02 +0000

As 2021 winds to a close, it’s time to reflect on the year. It was an exceptional year, so much has changed. Lots of interesting stuff happened. Let’s dig in.

❌My failures of 2021:❌

Failed in some job interviews.
Missed (had to let go because of the unavoidable situation) some high-paid job opportunities.
Failed to keep on blogging.
Missed to participate in 30 Days Google Cloud Challenge.

✔My wins of 2021:✔

In January, mentored some students.
In February, I Graduated👩‍🎓(Class of 2020 but late due to Covid-19).
Got selected as an Internshala Student Partner. During this program, I promoted Internshala & its product, helped several students in learning new skills, and motivated them to find their dream internship.
Started pursuing an MCA(Master of Computer Applications) from JECRC University.
In March, I created a Cool & Creative Dev Space Discord Community (currently 45+ members) but still, I need to set it up in the right way.
In April, participated in CNC 2021 Challenge & successfully completed it. Won some cool Dev stickers as a swag.
In May, started working as Freelance Graphic Designer. Thanks to Ambika’s Daily Design Challenge WhatsApp Group.
In June, got a Multimedia RGB Gaming Keyboard as a gift from Ankur Warikoo Sir. For me, it’s a pre-birthday gift as my birthday is in July.
In July, got an internship as a Software Engineer at Shiv Guru IT Solutions. Started working in August. It is a remote position working with a dope team.
In, September I was busy preparing & writing the master’s assignments and exams.
In October, participated in MLH Local Hack Day for the 1st time and learned a lot. I was in the top 6% of all hackers.
This year I also participated for the 1st time in HackThisFall. Got to learn so many things from awesome speakers and mentors, got a chance to interact with them. Explored some new tech stuff. Overall it was a great experience.
During the HTF, I won the Youtube Live Session Swag giveaway(Yet to come). Looking forward to HTF 3.0.
Luckily I won the @hacker T-shirt in a giveaway by The @ Company. Thanks to Siddharth Dayalwal.
Participated in Hacktoberfest 2021.
Participated in the Instagram giveaway by Meme Coding & Sawo Labo and guess what I won SAWO Labs goodies(Yet to come).
In November, got a chance to meet in person with my HR, she is very kind and supportive. She also brings chocolates from the U.S for me.
Won a cool Pluralsight Tripper Backpack during MS Ignite.
Got a cool T-shirt from Veeam Software. Thanks to Praveen Kumar Purushothaman.
Bought a new phone for my brother.
In December, learned how to create the Instagram filter using SparkAR Studio. Created 2 filters. BluePinkNeonLight Filter got 1.2K impressions.
Meet school/college friends after a long time.
My Linkedin connection has grown to 500+.
Crossed 200+ followers on Twitter, 1.1k followers on Instagram, 50+ followers on Github.

✨Quote of the day✨
“Your capacity to say ‘No’ determines your capacity to say ‘Yes’ to greater things.” ~ E. Stanley Jones

⭐Lesson I learned⭐

Explore -> Learn -> Win
The best gift you can give yourself is knowledge
Take care of your health & well-being
Surround yourself with people who make you better
Step out of your comfort zone
Support others genuinely
Life = Ups + Down

I just want to say thanks to the tech community for all your support. You're all great.💜💖
See you all in 2022.
I’m excited about what 2022 will bring for me💯💯✨✨
Bye-Bye 2021👋👋

2020: Year in Review

Anushka Raj — Thu, 31 Dec 2020 14:30:51 +0000

It’s the last day of the year!🎉
I like to share with you how my year has been.
A year full of challenges, pains, and lessons.
2020 made all of us to accept the change and adapt accordingly.
I realize it sounds insane to state thinking about the ongoing pandemic situation and so many unfortunate incidents, but this is, however, true for me. This year was one of the most remarkable years of my life where I learned lots of things, not only career-related but also about people and life in general. I grew as a person.

❌My failures of 2020:❌

Failed to keep journaling consistently
Failed to take care of my mental and physical health
Failed to learn Django, AWS
Failed to participate in Google Kick Start
Failed to qualify for the Microsoft Azure Certification exam
Failed to start or complete the projects which I wanted to do this year.
Failed to do job challenge by Tanay Pratap Sir

✔My wins of 2020:✔

Earned Google crowdsource badge
Participated in a design challenge by Ambika S and learned a lot of things.
Got GitHub Student Developer Pack (worth $200K)
Learned Microsoft Azure cloud computing
Earned Azure Hero Kudo Badge
Earned Cloud Skills Champion Badge
Earned a free certification voucher (approx $165)
Completed the Hacktoberfest challenge
Earned a JS book in a giveaway by javascript_interviews
Featured as a creator in Vaibhav Khulbe’s Dev Weekly newsletter issue no #66

What I learned this year is never take things for granted and be thankful for what you have.

✅Quote of the day✅
“The person who fails the most wins.” – Seth Godin
It's been a crazy year.
Thank you everyone from the bottom of my heart for your support.💖👏
Stay healthy, keep hope, and never stop learning!
The best is yet to come!💯💯✨✨
Bye-bye 2020👋👋

Hacktoberfest 2020

Anushka Raj — Sat, 17 Oct 2020 06:50:17 +0000

I effectively finished Hacktoberfest 2020 and it was truly fun. Open-Source contribution really helped me a lot to grow my skills and learned a lot from it.
I am truly appreciative of DigitalOcean to organize this amazing fest.💖🤩

This year, I contributed to repositories containing web-based projects, data structures, algorithms, and added some learning resources.

What I Learned From Hacktoberfest

Open source contributions help to improve both our technical and soft skills.
I also learned about how Git and Github works.
Importance of open-source contribution.
I learned more about the quality contributions on Github.