Resolutions

Each year I set a list of new year resolutions and actually forget about them halfway throughout the year. But this year hopefully I can get to keep them for once.


📍NOTE: most of these are valid until September 2026 lol


  • Career stuffs
    • Leetcode grind (number 1 priority rn)
      • finish neetcode 150
      • finish challenge with coding club
    • Internship grind
      • between 1~9 in korea
      • 9~12 in the US (for next year summer)
    • Study
      • database - cs50 db + udemy courses
      • cloud engineering - AWS SAA
      • java/springboot
      • make simple review sheets of courses (prob will take some time)
  • Life stuffs
    • read 1 book & write 1 post per month
    • dentist
    • whole lots of shopping once I get the bag
    • make some art!!
    • work on website

So this looks fairly ambitious but I have 9 months until I return back to uni, so I might just as well use my time wisely. I do have to look for signs of burnout though, so gotta be careful.

(I also have some resolutions I didn't include, like reading specific books or travelling.. they do exist but aren't priorities, or they are uncertain.)

Trying to get everything together

So far, January has been like my "prepping" month where I just caught up on the things I feel like I should have been doing a looonog time ago, like preparing interviews, leetcoding, editing resumes/portfolios, etc.


  • I've made 4 master google docs to get my shit together.

    • Interview doc - A doc with all QnAs for all past projects/research/internships + STAR method + behavioral (for interview prep)
      • By FAR the BIGGEST google doc ever I've made so far lmao
    • UW + job search doc - A doc with all necessary info for job search + UW degree (international student info, visa, housing, courses, etc)
    • Leetcode masterlist - A doc with leetcode questions + answers, mostly just summarized the most important stuff I need to remember (the "tricks" and edge cases, etc)
    • Internship tracker - A doc that tracks all internship applications

  • Started Notion again (for planner purposes)

    • I wrote my plans and goals per month, and what I want to do before Sept 2026.
    • I just kinda wanted to separate my life/productivity stuffs from my Obsidian vault

  • Finished polishing/updating resume/portfolio

    • This took WAY longer than expected .... especially the portfolio (And I can't believe the number of slides on this thing💀☠️).
    • This is pretty much mandatory to find any part-time job/internships here in Korea.
    • Also I realized I have about 10+ versions of my resume, and I recently saw the first few versions I had made and it looked really bad lol, so improvement right there.

  • Also I've finally started using google calendar, realized how chaotic my schedule was..🥀🥀


So... many of these are just some things I actually think should have started waaay earlier, like back in freshman year (why didn't I do them lmao).... ESPECIALLY the part about the visa and international student info. Like GIRL what have I been doing all this time and how did I survive until now. While organizing that doc I felt the missing pieces coming together that I procrastinated for YEARS just because I was too lazy to research😭


But you can't go back in time, right. Thinking about what I could have done in the past & getting worried about them solves 0 problems.


But also..

Bc I've been mostly stressed for the many parts of my life and I don't want to be living that way anymore. Well ofc I will still need to grind and whatnot, but for the most part I think I should approach life less seriously.


So I'd have to remind myself to be more flexible and easy going, which, hopefully, won't be too hard. There are too much good vibes in life I can't miss out.



Happy late new year! :-)