Thoughts & Insights

Starting a New Game Plus

I’ve graduated. Honestly, it doesn’t feel like a big win. You know like Luigi meme that says _"I've won but at what cost"_ During university, I wasn’t exceptional. My grades were fine, but I didn’t stand out. I knew I liked mobile development but liking something doesn’t mean you’re good at it. That truth hit hard near the end. I joined an internship where I built a mobile attendance app, which later became my final project. It wasn’t perfect. Things broke. A lot. I spent more time debugging than adding features. At first, that frustrated me. Later, I realized that was the work understanding systems, tracing mistakes, fixing what I didn’t fully grasp yet. My real mistake wasn’t failure. It was tunnel vision over optimizing one project and missing how much more I still needed to learn. Somewhere along the way, I stopped expecting my degree to open doors. I asked myself a simpler question: Why wait, instead of building? But sheesh with only me to fight, i don't really know i will make it or not. But it must start somewhere right. So I’m planning to share my progress in public, not to tell a motivational story, but to show real output. What I build. What breaks. What improves. The biggest trap I see is waiting to feel ready. Then i understand, that i will never do. But i know even though i will never be ready, i can be better, bigger, and stronger. Build, Fail, Learn, and Repeat. That loop more than any class taught me how to move forward. (Thanks' Dead Cells) And What’s next, get better at Flutter build more real applications had a Job Graduation is over. From here on, progress is measured by what I release not by the degree I hold.