Next Week Is Going to Be Pure Chaos!!

rp_dex — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 16:40:41 +0000

Next week my life will become a distributed system under heavy load.

Why??

Because three things are happening at the same time:

College midsems starts Monday

GSOC proposal writing

Trying to push open source PRs before deadlines

Which means my schedule next week looks something like this:

9:00 AM -> Study for midsem
11:00 AM -> Panic
12:00 PM -> Debug failing PR
2:00 PM -> Realize I studied the wrong subject
4:00 PM -> Write proposal draft
6:00 PM -> Coffee
7:00 PM -> Another PR review request appears
9:00 PM -> Existential crisis
2:00 AM -> Finally understand the code
2:05 AM -> Maintainer asks for rebase

The Academic vs Open Source Conflict

Professors expect to focus on my exams..
Maintainers expect “Can you update the PR with the latest changes?”
My brain expects Sleep

None of these expectations are being met.

The Midsem Preparation Strategy

Open the syllabus.
Realise I should've started earlier.
Open GitHub instead.
Convince myself fixing a bug is “productive studying”..

Proposal Writing Mode

Writing proposals is a special experience.

You start confident

“This project idea is brilliant.”

Two hours later

“Do I even understand my own architecture?”

Four hours later

“Maybe I should become a farmer.”

Reality of the Week

By Thursday the system will degrade into:

caffeine driven coding

last minute studying

refreshing GitHub notifications

pretending everything is under control

Spoiler: it will not be under control.

Final Thoughts

Next week is either going to be:

extremely productive

an absolute disaster

But either way…

there will be commits..

DEV Community: rp_dex

Next Week Is Going to Be Pure Chaos!!

The Academic vs Open Source Conflict

The Midsem Preparation Strategy

Proposal Writing Mode

Reality of the Week