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Attempt at a new beginning
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Attempt at a new beginning

via Dev.toMuthoni Hailu2h ago

Hello, my name is Muthoni. I am 22 years old and I just did my final university exam 4 days ago. I was taking a BSc in Computer Science from the University of London distance learning program but despite that, I feel like I have no programming skills. I have no portfolio, I barely remember high school math, let alone having a college level understanding and I am basically unemployable. This is through no fault of the university (except for the math part, they do not offer much when it comes to that). It is my fault. I have spent the past three and a half years mostly bedrotting and being depressed while my peers participated in hackathons, contributed to open source projects and built portfolios through freelance work. I have tried to get my life together multiple times during those three and a half years. I have started and quit multiple fitness journeys. I have vibe-coded a bunch of shitty projects that I am not proud of, and have started and quit multiple attempts at completing Khan

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