Hello, my name is Muthoni.
I am 22 years old and I just did my final university exam 4 days ago. I was taking a BSc in Computer Science from the University of London distance learning program but despite that, I feel like I have no programming skills. I have no portfolio, I barely remember high school math, let alone having a college level understanding and I am basically unemployable.
This is through no fault of the university (except for the math part, they do not offer much when it comes to that). It is my fault. I have spent the past three and a half years mostly bedrotting and being depressed while my peers participated in hackathons, contributed to open source projects and built portfolios through freelance work. I have tried to get my life together multiple times during those three and a half years. I have started and quit multiple fitness journeys. I have vibe-coded a bunch of shitty projects that I am not proud of, and have started and quit multiple attempts at completing Khan Academy's math courses.
Well, what makes this attempt different? Nothing. Maybe the fear of becoming homeless because now I have finished university and my parents will be expecting me to get a job and move out soon. But even that prospect doesn't seem to scare me enough to get my life together. I don't know if this attempt will work. I don't know if this will end up being a dead blog after three weeks and I'll go back to my miserable reality. But I can't afford to not to do anything.
So this blog will mostly detail my progress. Currently, I am mostly focused on learning AI. I will be following the AI roadmap guide by Jean, a Stanford graduate. I am starting from the very beginning with the Math courses. I hope I'll be done by March 23rd 2028. I will be making updates every week, detailing the progress I have made, any insights I got and my plans for the next week.
The first week for me starts on Monday, that's March 23rd. My main focus will be learning Probability and Statistics and making some Data Structures and Arrays progress. I will try and finish:
- Khan Academy's Probability and Statistics Course: Analyzing one Categorical Variable - The first unit
- Learning Heaps Data Structure by pooling from various online resources
That goal is small, but hopefully it is small enough that I won't feel the urge to quit after two days.
I don't expect anyone to read this, I mostly just want something to look back on and see how far I've come if this is successful, or feel shame about if it isn't. If you've actually read this, I'm glad you took interest but I'm also really scared about you continuing to follow my progress in case I fail. But I can't stop you from following along, can I?
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Good luck!