Hi, I am Pragnya a third year BCA student , with a slightly unhealthy obsession with building things that matter and becoming someone whose work is remembered.
I'm starting this blog to document the journey of becoming someone whose work creates real value and someone who can't be easily replaced.
This isn't just a record of what I learn, but of the mistakes I make, the lessons I discover, and the person I become along the way.
I don't want to become someone who simply has good technical skills or a high-paying job.
I want to build the kind of skills that can solve meaningful problems, improve people's lives, and make the world a little more better than it is today.
I know that's an ambitious goal, and I have no idea where it will lead. But if there's only one life I get to live, I'd rather spend it trying to build something that matters than settle for doing only what's expected of me and stop myself and dreams to meet people's expectations of who i am .
Till now , all i did was to just pass all the things in my life ,i never truly worked hard for anything, but now i am sick of being mediocre and going with the flow.
I have faced enough regret in my life to stop me acting from at least now.
You might be wondering why you should read the blog of a 19-year-old BCA student who's still trying to figure out how to navigate a world that can be both cruel and opportunistic.", I am sure you found many stories like this on instagram, youtube or any other social media platform and I must admit those stories are quite appealing and more motivating. but i have something most of them do not have that is.......tbh i don't know.
Maybe you will find it alongside me.
So I have 4 goals:
build skills from 0 that not ignorable and they should be something that puts me ahead , I should have value in my work and create work that speaks for itself .
I want to get into top ivy leagues like Stanford, MIT, and Harvard for my masters by November 2027. with research as I am a BCA student . becoz, it is not the starting point but the ending point and the work you do is what define you not a degree
I do not want to only be smart with tech knowledge but also have knowledge of the world, how it works and how to handle its cruel and be independent of anyone.
this is very important a person who cannot handle people and know how to deal with things when it does not go there way cannot succeed.for now , i have no idea to start my company , i want to build a billion dollar tech company not only based on AI but any tech field (you know having broad horizons is good)in next 5 years.
Maybe this blog ends up being read by five people. Maybe five thousand or no one I don't know.
It is a constant reminder for me to keep the promises i made for my self at least from now on.
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"i have something most of them do not have that is.......tbh i don't know."
That's the best line in this post, and I don't think you realize it. Every restart-announcement on the internet claims a special ingredient. You looked at the question honestly and refused to invent one. If you can keep being that honest with yourself on day 40, when it stops being exciting — that IS the ingredient. Self-honesty compounds harder than talent.
One thing from someone who started from zero much later in life than you (I'm a physical therapist who learned to build software with AI in my late thirties, no CS degree, hospital day job): the day-0 that finally stuck for me wasn't attached to a goal. It was attached to a problem — a specific, annoying thing in front of me that I wanted gone. Goals like yours are good compasses, but they're terrible daily fuel; there were whole months where "billion-dollar ambition" would have gotten me nothing, and "make this one stupid spreadsheet stop eating my evening" got me through the night.
So keep the big list. But maybe let the unit of each day be tiny and concrete: one thing that works today that didn't work yesterday. Two hundred of those in a row look, from the outside, exactly like not giving up.
Rooting for day 100. Write that post too — especially if it goes badly. Those are the ones worth reading.
Thank you so much for this. I honestly did not expect someone to read my post this carefully.
Your point about focusing on a problem instead of the goal really stayed with me. Tbh, I have been thinking so much about the destination that I forget tomorrow's job is just to solve what is in front of me.
And you are right, those goals are terrible daily fuel. But seeing that someone was actually interested in the way I think... that's a different kind of fuel. It is something I am experiencing for the first time.
I will keep working towards those goals, one problem at a time, and I will keep writing about the journey.
Hopefully you will still be around when i get to week 100:)
"Someone being interested in the way I think is a different kind of fuel" — you just discovered, on day 0, something a lot of people never notice: writing in public doesn't just document the journey, it powers it. Every post you write is a small flare, and the right people find you by it. That's not a side effect. That's half the engine.
And for what it's worth, the careful reading wasn't charity. Honest day-0 posts are rare, and I remember standing at my own day 0 wishing anyone had told me the things I now get to tell you. Paying that forward is the good part of getting older in this craft.
Week 100 is a date, then. Solve tomorrow's problem tomorrow. I'll be around. :)