A Letter to My Future Self
Dear Tong,
Hello, I am 25 years old in September.2020, this is the 4th letter to you.
One More Semester
This month, I decided to delay my graduation from 2021 Spring to 2021 Autumn. In other words, I will have one more semester. Why I made this decision?
In my heart, I want to learn more knowledge at Fudan University. I need to reorganize my knowledge graph and training my coding ability. I need to learn more about computer knowledge.
And I also have a choice in 2021 Spring to find a job to do, maybe try to found a back-end engineer job. So I need to learn algorithms in English.
The delay is a coincidence. On September.1, I had an interview which is the final interview of Bytedance, and the interviewer gives me work, using React.js and Node.js to make a TodoList App. This job spent two weeks, so I don’t have enough time to finish my paperwork, so I apply to my mentor that I need to delay my graduation time.
What I’m doing?
1. Interview
This month, I got some offers from Meituan, Kuaishou, Baidu, JD, Bytedance in Shanghai, and maybe get an offer from Shopee in Singapore. I need to compare these jobs in October. Maybe Shopee is the best choice, I can have a different environment, including smart colleagues, overseas work experience, and English ability, if I want to go to Google, this also a good choice for a job-hopping.
2. Began to Run and Exercise
After I moved to the Handan campus, I began to run around the school, usually two turns and more than 5km. When I finish run the feeling is great. I like to run. In the morning, I again take Bobby Jump in the staircase. Remember one thing, I must take the key if I would get out. No one must help you.
3. Some Classes
I begin to learn some interesting classes like history and legal. I need to read more books, get more knowledge, the most important thing is to review and absorb.
4. Parents Visiting
My parents go to Shanghai and visit me. We ate Zhejiang food and talked with a business partner in Shanghai. The best time is that we took craft beer on University Road. The beer was drunk great. I said I got the ticket living in Shanghai, and I will continue growing up. After ten years, my annual salary now will be my monthly salary. I believe I can achieve it successfully.
5. Classmates Reunion
On the last day of September, I organized a party for my high school classmates. Everyone in Shanghai came here, we talked a lot and had fun. Although we haven’t seen each other for a year, we still close. I learned that 4 of 9 will get the Ph.D. I took the video of everyone, 2 years has passed away. 20 years also fast.
What do I need to improve?
1. Schedule
I need to fix my habit, for examples:
- get up early and exercise at 7:00 am.
- take a shower and shave at 7:30 am.
- run 5km at 10:pm.
2. Coding Ability
I also need to know my ability to engineer coding. I usually think I can finish this work today, however, I can’t do it. so I should summary coding every day. I also need to begin my algorithm design and experiment to finish my graduation thesis.
What’s next?
- Finish the Yuelv project in October and improve my coding ability.
- Read the paper and run the code, and write a blog summary.
- Work out every day on weekdays.
What I’m Digesting
- 《冯唐成事心法》
- 《资治通鉴》
