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Day 39 – Locked Reloaded Ready to Devour the Last 60 Days

mridul bansal — Sat, 31 May 2025 20:50:47 +0000

These last 4 days were not dramatic

But they were real

I got back to basics and I built some solid momentum

First I fully completed Git and GitHub

Not half-learned but properly understood

Branching merging pushing pulling resolving conflicts

Now I can say I actually know version control

Then I sat with React js

Practiced component structures

Worked with state and props

Started getting used to useState and useEffect

It’s still new but not scary anymore

Tailwind CSS also felt overwhelming at first

But after building with it for hours

I started feeling comfortable with the utility classes

I also went back to DSA

I did not rush through 20 questions a day

I solved 3 to 4 properly

Understood logic dry ran them

And moved only when I actually got it

In the middle of this I finished the book Think Straight

It gave me mental clarity

Helped me remove unnecessary thoughts

Sometimes the problem is not what to do

The problem is we think too much

And this book cleared that clutter

But to be honest I still wasted some time

Some mental baggage

Some emotional slipups

Some lost hours that I should’ve used

And I accept that

No filters no excuses

It is what it is

But I also know this

This was not failure

This was a checkpoint

A small reset

A small loss to trigger a bigger win

Now I am standing at the start of the last 60 days

And I am not here to play

From tomorrow I go all in

Solo grind

No noise

No distractions

Just pure build mode

## Gameplan

Write code daily without skipping
Finish React and Tailwind projects
Push everything to GitHub in proper structure
Practice DSA with quality and depth
Keep reading but only when I apply what I learn
Track execution daily
Improve every area step by step
No burnouts
No breakdowns
Just quiet ruthless building

### Final thought

I don’t want this blog to be motivation

This is documentation

Because I am not here to impress

I am here to finish what I started

These 60 days are mine

And I will make them count

Day 34 — Layers Are Building (React, JS OOP, Matplotlib)

mridul bansal — Sun, 25 May 2025 22:51:14 +0000

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What I Did

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Started React
I stopped just watching tutorials and finally began building. I made a website clone using components. Learned how to structure props, state, and JSX. React started making sense once I used it hands-on.

Completed JavaScript OOP
Covered objects, constructors, inheritance, prototype chaining, and super. Practiced enough to debug most structural issues now without much effort.

Started Matplotlib
Just the basics for now — line plots, bar charts, and scatter plots. Goal is to pair it later with Pandas and real datasets once I build a solid base.

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What’s Next

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Keep building React components and complete a few mini-projects

Wrap up Matplotlib core

Prepare for upcoming ML workflows using Python, OOP, and data visualization

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Conclusion

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I’m not rushing. Just building every day.
One skill at a time. One block at a time.

— Mridul Bansal
Learning Full Stack & AI | Building in public

Day 1 — The Start of Something Non-Negotiable

mridul bansal — Sun, 18 May 2025 18:29:13 +0000

Hi, I’m Mridul Bansal. I’m 18. A first-year student at Newton School of Technology, Pune — but this isn’t about college.

This is about a choice I made a few weeks ago: to become one of the top 100 AI/ML minds on the planet in the next 3 years. And I’m documenting everything. Every hour, every line of code, every mental breakdown, every rebuild.

This is Day 1 of that journey.

But it didn’t start today.
Where I Come From
I cracked NSAT in February. I had a background in Python from 11th–12th grade, topped my school in CS with 97/100, and left JEE mid-way because I realized I didn’t want to survive in a rat race — I wanted to build something real.

In March, I joined offline coaching for Full Stack + AI/ML because YouTube wasn’t enough for me. I’m someone who learns best when I’m all in — environment, people, mindset. So I customized my learning path:

Full Stack (MERN)
Advanced Python (NumPy, Pandas, Matplotlib)
AI/ML + Generative AI
DSA in Python
Kali Linux
Spiritual stability (Reiki healing, daily meditations)

My mindset shifted fast. From just wanting to stay ahead in college → to dominating my batch → to aiming at global level skill. That’s how I landed here.

What I Did This Week

This past week was about setting foundations — mentally, technically, and emotionally.
I completed my Pandas course and scored 46.5/60 in the final test. No laptop, no IDE — just pure logic on paper.
Started DSA with basics like linear and binary search. It’s not about speed right now — just showing up consistently.
Built 5 JavaScript DOM projects, not flashy ones — just to master event handling, logic, and UI flow.
Practiced and documented core Linux commands until they felt natural.
Finalized my future track — I’m going into FinTech, with AI-based decision systems in credit scoring, lending, and financial infrastructure.
Started watching Yale’s Financial Markets lectures and took notes on risk models and credit structures.
Removed 80% of distractions — including social media, past relationships, and old friend groups. The isolation is intentional.
No hype. No aesthetics. Just full focus.

My Weekly System (Moving Forward)
Everything I do now revolves around 3 core goals:

Execution Stack:

React.js + MongoDB coming next
More DOM projects
Matplotlib learning
DSA: recursion, hashing, graphs
Mental + Physical Discipline:
Gym 5x/week
Reiki healing every day
No social media, no contact with distractions
Reading Naval, Goggins, Hormozi before bed
Alignment with Purpose:
Every topic I learn must connect back to AI or Finance
No content or course is done for random knowledge
This isn’t curiosity anymore — it’s execution mode

Posting Plan-

I won’t be posting every day. I’ll post here once a week — just to keep it real and show exactly what I’ve built or learned. No fluff. Just raw execution logs, week by week.

Closing Thought-

I’m not doing this blog for likes. I’m writing this so that when someone 2 years from now wants to know how I did it — they won’t just see the success, they’ll see the system.
No motivation quotes. No branding tricks.
Just one guy documenting his rebuild.
Let’s build.