The Vibe I Bring To The Function:

software engineer diaries 👩‍💻 project presentation day 📝

this is the biggest project and the most involved i've been in a project from beginning to (hopefully) end and i need to pitch my execution plan to our engineering team today. i've done these kinds of presentations many times before and prepared thoroughly, so i'm not nervous about the meeting itself, just about the scope, scale, scheduling and responsibilities i have for this project in general. i just have to remind myself that at a certain point it becomes a little too unproductive to think too many steps ahead. i'll take my time and put it together piece by piece 😌

🎯 agenda today:

📝 team check-in meeting

💻 presentation meeting

👩‍💻 follow-up tasks (notes consolidation, further research)

🤝 meeting with my mentor

📝 ticketing (task breakdown for actual execution)

🗓️ send out follow-up schedules

17/3/21 | 74/103 Days of Productivity | Zoomester Study Challenge

Day 17 - Share your feel-good playlist with us

See here we have the issue of my listening to loads of playlist but here are a couple that aren't mine that I love

tipsy dancing alone in the kitchen - a classic for positive evening vibes

dark academia but it slaps - surprisingly my running playlist but all round good energy

07/05 - Had to take a new route to my class, got lost, discovered at least three new murals and somehow ended up wandering hopelessly in the very pretty campus of a university I do not attend. Oops. Honestly, factor in the bubble tea, and not a bad way to spend an afternoon.

Next exam: History - 09/05

Revised social and political impact of WW1

French grammar practice

History past paper questions

⏱️: approx 5hrs

🎧: laissez-moi danser - pomme

~all images from Pinterest~

4.21.25

Today went a little bit better than it has been lately. I managed to lock in over the weekend and finish quite a bit of problem sets for discrete math. Final exam this week 🤌

2025, week 1 (dec 30th - jan 5th) ✨

for this year, I felt inspired to take a page out of @lostlibrariangirl's book and try weekly posts! I like the idea of collecting little moments throughout the week & reflecting on them at the end.

this week was very strange and kind of difficult, tbh. I blame new year's day falling in the middle of the week - my routine-loving brain did not have a good time haha. I was also struggling to get some work projects done. I find that some projects flow really well, and others seem to drag on forever and make me question my purpose, but I suppose it all balances out in the end. I'm hoping that things will feel more normal next week, now that all the holidays are over. swinging between feeling super exhausted and super motivated is not fun :(

one of the things that I did this week was fill out a goals page in my 2025 planner! I wrote down a lot, but I think they're all achievable, and it's okay if I don't get everything! it'll still be nice to look back at the end of the year and see what I've done. there are some cybersecurity courses that I want to work through, and I want to properly get back into language learning this year, but I wrote down some fun goals, too! here is a small selection of what I want to try and do in 2025:

complete the TCM Practical Malware Analysis and Triage course

read a book in Spanish

reach 50 birds on my life list (this is a totally arbitrary number, but that's like 1-2 new birds per month which I think I can do if I really try) (a subgoal of this is trying to spot an american woodcock bc their range technically overlaps with where I live and they are so goofy looking. I want to see one of them doing that funky lil dance in person so bad)

mend at least 1 item of clothing

get a technician amateur radio license (everyone on my dad's side of the family is licensed, and I think it would be a fun hobby to get into as a combo of learning the science behind radio & also learning to help with communications from a disaster preparedness perspective)

I think 2025 is going to be a year where I have to keep reminding myself that I can do anything, but not everything. I also want to make it a year of reaching out and forging connections with people in my community & online friends. the world feels like a very heavy place more days than not, but we can get through it together.

some highlights from this week:

drinking lots of tea

settling into my 2025 planner

getting back into language learning with clozemaster & busuu

outlining & starting the first draft of a fic that's taken over my brain the past few weeks lol

finishing two projects at work so I can start fresh next week

⎯⎯⎯⎯✮ 4/3/25 ✮⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯

→ Thermodynamics Exam today

→ Engineering mechanics HW Wednesday

→ Math quiz Thursday

→ Computational exam Thursday

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✮⋆˙ Busy busy week and I HAVE been studying daily, just, not maybe the right things whoops

✮⋆˙ Yes I got a coffee today, Frappuccino 8.5/10

✮⋆˙ Lent began on the 3rd and I'm giving up desserts and Instagram. I still open the app reflexively and I'm starting to realize yes maybe it really is that damn phone

✮⋆˙ Anticipating my after-exam dinner (burgers and fries because I've been craving)

When you would just like to sit in the grass and watch the breezes carry the dandelion seeds away.

missing this desk back when I was in my final year of university