hobbies i want to do next year
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hobbies
i find journaling to be extremely useful because i can go back in time to see what my past self wanted for my current self. and you know what, even though i did not commit to most of the goals i set, i still committed to some and that's good enough.
looking through my entries about my goals, my first entry said that i wanted to:
- learn mandarin
- learn go and rust
- learn embedded systems
- learn sociology and psychology
another entry and this one too were mostly the same as the first one except with new additions:
- graphics programming, image fiter web app
- horror 2d game
- anime music video
- neko thing
review
i want to review each and everyone of these before i embark on even more hobbies that i've been thinking about for past few days.
mandarin
still committing to this, i dropped the ball for the most part, but i want to pick it up again as soon as this semester ends. many reasons why i kinda just stopped one of which was that i just got too busy
go and rust
ok i tried to use go in one of my projects but it kept failing miserably, maybe it was just not the right use case. regardless, i think i will put go at the back of the shelf for now.
as for rust, i want to dive even more deeply into it because of a new hobby i want to pick up. i will enumerate my new hobbies later in this entry.
learn embedded systems
i am committing to this too. i made a project proposal about drones and that entails a huge number of things from embedded, flight controllers, whatever idk
sociology, psychology
i love sociology, i'm gonna take a course on it next semester
graphics programming
lost interest
horror 2d game
not now
anime music video
i am so glad i was able to churn this one out
neko thing
this was just a productive procrastinating hobby but it was kinda cool and fun and cool
https://github.com/rinvii/neko
my new goals
okay, on top of the things that i did not dismiss i want to get into:
- competitive programming
- learn mandarin
- work on a UAV project
- get into art
overall, i'm pretty happy with my personal progress. everyday, i always feel like my brain is about to burst. there is so much useful information and i've been amassing them to a point where i can't keep track of them no longer so i've been relying on other tools like github stars and hackernews favorites and youtube likes and watch laters
it's getting out of hand
maybe there's a solution for this like retrieval augmented generation systems, idk and idc rn, i have other responsibilities that i need to tend to
i quite like this journal entry a lot, it's kind of like a 2024 year review, maybe i'll do one right before new years or something
i look forward to that