Review for 2022
Today is the last day of 2022. Time passed so fast. I saw most of the people on the social media complaint this year seemed worse than in 2021 because they had not done anything. For me, even this year my depression reappears again, I also want to say: “2022 is a miracle year!”. I will divide my review into several parts.
Life
My 2022 greatest miracle is falling in love with Micheal Mai. Before dating him, I had a lot of misunderstandings about him. For example, I thought he paid no attention to his life quality. I was wrong. He likes to do some handcraft to reuse the packing box. He knows how to use the oven but I don’t. He can cook delicious tomato beef soup. Also, I was thinking he was a stubborn guy. That is not true. He has a huge interest related to his career. I find he has many things I don’t know. Those contracts make me feel so amazing.
Since I cannot go back home for more than two years, I finally crashed out. I started to take depression medicine in July. I wanted to destroy myself, but Mai always hold me back. He is my angel. I feel much better now.
I start playing electric guitar this year. My guitar is Fender Player Capri Orange.
Here is a brief table of my this year’s best:
| Best Game | Splatoon2/Splatoon3 |
|---|---|
| Best Music | Stronger(Kanye West) |
| Best Friend | Karina Jiang |
| Best Tea | Jasmine Tea |
| Best Perfume | Le labo: Jasmin 17 |
| Best Course | COMP2123:Algorithm (USYD/ Andre you are the best!) |
| Best colour | RED |
Study
I didn’t pay a lot of attention to my study this year cause fighting my depression and seeking for internship took most of my time. I may adjust my way of studying in the coming year.
I had a really nice mentor this year in our school and his name is Jonathan Kummerfeld. Here is some word told him which impressed me a lot:
- “Every people is the best in his or her degree.”
- “Every experience is useful.”
Work
Interviews
I started looking for an internship at the start of this year. I made a fancy CV and kept doing Leetcode. I went to Google STEP and Canva interviews. I passed Google’s but I failed at the stage of the team match. I failed the second algorithm interview with Canva. There are some words taught by interviewers and HR that is really useful:
- “It is impossible to be 100% ready.”
- “Be brave. Be confident. Show your 100% talent!”
- “You can do more open-source projects!”
- “Just do it! Don’t wait for tomorrow!”
- “I think you have a huge potential.”
My first internship
I started working at Dither(a startup) in December. We are working on designing an application for art exhibitions. My boss Thomas told me our work was to bring art to our users. Galleries always waiting for the audience, so we want to bring art to our audience. I thought this project was my project. I always want to be an artist but my family doesn’t support me. They think doing art won’t feed me. But, art and music save my life sometimes. When I fall into a huge depression, art and music can pull me out. Therefore, I really appreciate I am doing this job as my first internship.
I am working as a backend developer in this company. I design a NoSQL database to get galleries and exhibitions detailed. I also write REST API for our front end to get data. I may work as a frontend in the future because the workload of the frontend is much huger than I currently have. I learned a lot from my job. Even though sometimes I stuck and may feel sad, I can solve it by doing research online.
When I received my first wage(360 AUD), I bought a perfume (LeLabo: Jasmin17) as my gift. When I saw this bottle of perfume for the first time two years ago, I decided to get my first computer-related salary in my life, I would buy it as a gift.
Hope for 2023
Hope I can get stronger both mentally and physical in 2023.
Also, hope I can find a nice full-time job in 2023!
