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2024 through the eyes of a Student

This is a submission for the 2025 New Year Writing challenge: Retro’ing and Debugging 2024.

2024 went by in a blink of an eye and yet I feel stagnate and how nothing has changed from 2023. I am a student pursuing Computer Science and here's my journey of 2024.

During the initial months of 2024 I truly did nothing. I was lazy, unmotivated and used to think "what happens so, happpens". However, during mid 2024 I found myself reflecting on self and how a change is a must. So, I tried working hard, academically and actually managed to come 2nd in my college for two consequitive semesters when I had literally failed during my 1st semester and was struggling through the others.

From my academic success, I thrived to want more. My classmates are far more knowlegdeable than me and I feel like I'm just there pursuing the degree with no skills whatsoever. Hence, I started exploring different fields of Computer Science and finally decided to pursue Web development and later on move on to Mobile. Carrying on with what I already know, I wanted to dive deeper and study react for frontend. I did try my best to learn it from various youtube channels and free courses but I felt like I wasn't learning anything and that was when I dived my roots further down to the basics (Javascript).

Slowly but surely, I was growing confident. Meanwhile, I was also exploring other fields including open source contributions and Hacktoberfest. During the month of October is when I felt truly progressive when I contributed to Hacktoberfest and other similar events. It was then when I earned my first swag. I also participated in Hackathons where our team won 1st runner up positon.

Even after all these achivements which I didn't have during past years, I feel insufficient. As I mentioned before, I was trying to learn react. However, be it pressure of needing to complete academic assignments and projects or other outside things, I never learned it properly. Even now, I am struggling to do the same with little progress and hoping that my baby steps would eventually lead me to become successfull.

That's a wrap to my journey in 2024 and hopefully 2025 would be better and by the ends of it, I wish I would be writing about my reflections and how I became successfully instead.

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