College wants marks.
Industry wants skills.
And I am stuck in the middle.
In class there’s a fixed syllabus, regular exams, theory overload, assignments, and projects.
Sometimes even outdated tools (Java in Notepad… yeah that still exists).
Outside class, I see this fast-moving tech world and try my best to catch up. Yet still, I feel I’m lagging behind. Juggling between projects, hackathons, GitHub commits at 2AM, learning cloud and AI from YouTube.
The fact is balancing both is brutal.
Assignments don’t care if you’re building the next big thing.
Projects don’t wait because you’ve got an internal test tomorrow.
And somewhere in between… burnout sneaks in.
You start questioning: Should I just focus on exams? Or grind skills for the future?
Still figuring it out. Still stuck in the middle.
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