Farewell to 2025

It's raining outside right now, the year 2025 just ended 17 min ago and I am here writing this blog in VS Code. I wanted to write about the year 2025, but the memories of the starting months are kinda blurry. So, I decided to start a yearly blog and I will be updating it at the end of each month. If you arrived here early, then it's even better. You get to witness my growth and failures. And if you are someone from the future... Well, it's just a relic of the past, Sir. I am not who you think I am, not anymore.

This is more like a personal diary. The only difference is that I am not sharing any confidentials details and this is gonna be updated monthly and not daily. It sounds silly writing all this while being in the public but at least it's gonna be something new.

Future Goals

Well, I am not gonna list out my every goal but it won't hurt mentioning a few of them. After all, it will be hard for me to ignore them after a thousand of visitors had read it. I will either stop caring about what other think of me or I will be focus on completing each of them 😂. Here we go:

[ ] Acquire as many skills as possible
[ ] Contribute to at least 15+ open source projects
[ ] Publish at least 4 useful apps by the end of this year
[ ] Apply for GSoC 2026 (couldn't do it last year because of personal projects and college)
[ ] Apply for Internship in FAANGOM
[ ] Apply for Y Combinator 2026 Batch (if the forms are still open)
[ ] Grab that Google Knowledge Badge
[ ] Start investing in stock market
[ ] Just do it. You know what I mean. If you are gonna do the above, then this one is too easy compared to them (special task only known to me. kindly don't waste your time figuring out what it is)

Yes! There are a hundred of other goals in my Notion app which are way more serious and hardcore than these.

January

This month started with an app launch, writing blog, and applying in all kinds of internship.

My app Varnamala got production access. The first feedback I got was a 1 star review saying that Tamil language is not accurate. And I know this. Accuracy is the only thing I need to improve for this kinda app. That night, I had a long chat with 2 of my smartest pen pals "ChatGPT" and "Gemini". We discussed about the new architecture and model training methods and how can we further optimize the model to make it work even on older devices.

Apart from this, there's an interesting thing that happened. Me and my friend got ourself a 5+ years bet. I will pay him 20,000 RS - 50,000 RS if he manages to complete the given task (this is confidentail so can't share much). The amount is not fixed. It will either remain same, increase or decrease based on the economical condition of the country and my financial conditions at the time of our reunion. And if he fails, then he has to do one specific task, which he can't decline 😏. Not after coming this far in the game (that task has already been decided and he's okay okay with it. Even if he said NO, I would have just forced him to accept the terms and conditions 🙂).

A friend asked me about my love interest a few days before the month ended. And I had nothing to tell him. I am always alone (friends are always there but I am talking about how I actually am when it comes to relationship. and even with friends, I prefer being alone because that's what I have become in these past few years). Ever since I joined the college, libary and that one jhula are the only places you will find me hanging (pun intended) out. Even now in my 3rd year, I will still be at one of these places 😂. And he asked me (an extrovert but still lonely person) about his love interest. Sometimes my thoughts are kinda childish, thinking that dating is okay at this age. And the next second when I look at my future goals, I start acting like an uncle worrying about earning money and stablizing my life instead of relationships. I am 9999% workaholic at this point. After all, this is the only age when I can either be someone, the world looks upto or be a slave for my entire life working for someone else. or if I really try and put some efforts into it, then maybe just maybe... I can manage both my career and my love life.

--- Written on 04 Feb 2026, Wednesday at 06:41 PM ---

February

Some really interesting things happened during this month. For the first time in my life, I made some efforts into something which I wasn't supposed to (that's what I believe). Only a few of my friends can understand what I am talking about.

It was a new and fun experience which gave me some clarity on what I really want and why. There are a lot of doubts still in my mind.

Let me show you some of those efforts. These are somehow related to that but not entirely.

So, I participated in one of the Literary events in my college. Well, I am not the kind of guy who can speak in public on a serious topic if the topic is not related to my work. But I still tried just because it's my last year in the college. Why and whom to fear. It's not like I care about what people think, until and unless it's someone close.

I will just attach a few of the images for my future self.

Literay Club Participants 2026 Literay Club Poster Making 2026 Gym and Cricket Fitness

--- Written on 29 March 2026, Sunday at 01:30 PM ---

March

This month was even better. In fact, every month and every day of the year is great for me. So, you will be seeing this line in the entire RECAP.

The month started with a hackthon in Jaipur. I won't be promoting that hackathon but also bot gonna blur it's name from the images. It was a great experience overall.

Acehack 5.0 2026 Team Acehack 5.0 2026 Moments Acehack 5.0 2026 BKBIETians

After the hackathon, I participated in some extra-curricular activities. One of those activities was the MATH PI DAY event in my college.

I won 2 prizes in 2 different events. Interestingly, the prizes from both of the events I received were MILTON BOTTLEs. And being a 6'4" CAMEL, I don't drink much water or care about bottles. And now I have 2 of them. I participated just to enjoy the event, but winning is also nice sometimes.

Let me show you the drawings. First one is from a friend and the second one is mine. She used colors and drew a beautiful and creative poster. Meanwhile I was stuck at the drawing part, only got the chance to paint the background but not the actual elements.

Maths PI Day Poster Making

By the end of the month, I got an Intership Offer Letter at IIT GUWAHATI. Well, this is something I don't want to mention in such short paragraph sooooo I will be writing a separate blog for this. Maybe I can use titles like "Life at IIT GUWAHATI" or "IIT GUWAHATI: 3 Months Journey".

But to tell you about it in simple words. I would say that work culture is great, my supervisor is also awesome and friendly. We call him BHAIYA and not SIR. Great person. Bss ek baar unhone kuch kaha tha wo bura laga tha. Abhi tak lag raha h. But atleast he never used any filters and said it straight to my face. Aab naya target h ki uss baat ko galat prove karna h bss 😌.

--- Written on 29 March 2026, Sunday at 01:30 PM ---

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