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Here's a belated 2022 year-end summary (/▽＼)
Cover image: Photos of 2022
2022 was a particularly important year for me. Why? Not only because I took the gaokao in 2022, but also because during those three years of high school, it was the first time I had so many opportunities to do my own things.
Some odds and ends before the gaokao
Let's go month by month and record the things that happened before the gaokao (。・ω・。)
January
Winter break! The winter break homework had to be photographed and uploaded every two days. That period was really both slacking and exhausting: I always started doing it not long before the deadline, so I neither did the winter break homework well nor got enough rest (x)
I got a GSC Reimu from Surugaya. It was a bit old, so the neck joint broke when I tried to swap her head... In the end it took a lot of tricks to get it out and put on a new joint:
Café Reimu, hehe:
February
Classmate: Use the winter break to review, enrich yourself, and overtake everyone on the curve
Me: Got launched by a car coming out of the curve
School started on February 9, so there weren't that many interesting things. But I took quite a few photos this month, so I'll put some here (
March, April, May
Review, mock exam, review, mock exam, review...
At the end of May, the final self-study period began. Because our usual classroom building was going to be used as exam rooms, we had to move everything to the review classroom. It was raining that day, and it took a lot of effort
Then I caught a cold இ௰இ
June: gaokao and college applications
A few days before the gaokao, I was still at the hospital on an IV drip. Maybe when people get really stressed, their bodies get worse too.
In the end, my score was the worst among the three diagnostic exams. No miracle happened. The gaokao is really hugely affected by mindset. In fact, right after the Chinese exam I didn't feel good—the new question types and the Dream of the Red Chamber essay prompt threw me off; math, well, this math failure performed about normally; the science comprehensive was where I made the biggest mistakes, mainly the multiple-choice questions (x); English was basically normal, though I still had a little regret..
Although I had an IV drip for a few days, I don't think being sick affected me much, and I don't want to attribute my gaokao result to being sick. No matter what, I somehow made it through these 3 years!
The results came out around June 23.
As for filling in my college preferences, my ideal major was very clear: computer science. I know that nowadays this is a "joining the Nationalist army in 1949" kind of choice, but computer science is genuinely something I've always loved.
When filling in Sichuan college applications at that time, if I wanted to guarantee a computer science major, there wasn't much to choose from in my score range. Because computer science had been ridiculously popular before, the CS programs at 985, 211, and even Double First-Class universities all had very high cutoffs, and there was a gap between them and CS programs at regular first-tier universities—and I was right at that gap. In the end, I chose a regular first-tier university known for computer science.
Why not retake the gaokao? First, retaking wastes time, and my family didn't support it. Second, I felt the gaokao situation would only get tougher. Third, I really didn't want to study gaokao subjects again—I wanted to learn what I'm truly interested in. So I don't regret my choice, and I hope I won't regret it 4 years from now either.
I don't think my life is only about the gaokao, and the gaokao can't define me.
A Trip to Western Sichuan
(Lots of photos ahead)
During the summer break in 2022, there were no extra classes and no homework, and I finally had a chance to travel. But due to pandemic restrictions, I couldn't leave Sichuan, so I went to Western Sichuan
Scenery Along the Way
In Ganzi, right after getting off the highway, the succulents next to the restaurant were growing really well—nothing like mine at home, which are small and leggy. Maybe it's because there's plenty of sunlight.
Elevation 4000m; vegetation is gradually getting sparse, and the moon is faintly visible.
At the Yala Pass viewpoint, we got out to rest. Because of altitude sickness, right after getting out I felt like the ground was shaking (
《The 18 Bends of the Sky Road》
Meiduo Cuogang viewpoint, elevation 4110m
Arrived at Litang, the world's highest city. Oh hey, isn't this ( )( )?
Stone River viewpoint, part one
Stone River viewpoint, part two
On the way to Daocheng Yading
Daocheng Yading
We stayed in Shangri-La Town and got ready early in the morning to go hiking!
Looking at Yangmaiyong Snow Mountain from Luorong Pasture. The weather wasn't good at the time, and it was hidden by very thick clouds and mist.. Elevation 4200m
Milk Lake seen from afar—a patch of azure among the high mountains. Up close, it actually wasn't as blue as it looked from afar, and there were also tons of people, so I won't post the close-up photos (
Five-Color Lake, elevation 4700m
On the way back along the same route, I found that the clouds and mist that had been blocking Yangmaiyong Snow Mountain had already cleared.
We walked for 7 hours in total. The altitude sickness was severe—my legs hurt, and my head hurt too... In the end, I had a fever when I got back to the hotel, but luckily it wasn't serious after taking a fever reducer.
Planted Aquarium
Setting Up the Tank!
You can see the tank setup process here: Pointer's Planted Tank Setup Log
Auto Top-Off
After I added a cooling fan to the planted tank, the water evaporated really fast, so I thought I'd make an automatic top-off thing.
A PCB I drew blindly. I had no idea what I was doing and just went for it, and surprisingly it worked (
The board used an Arduino Nano. It was my first time writing this kind of program, and it felt really awkward to write ＞︿＜
In the end, this experiment ended with the LDO burning out after running for a day (I still don't know what went wrong; I'm too dumb)
Coding...
I also made some little things in 2022
DLmeta
I refactored the DLsite voice work metadata tagging tool I wrote before, and then wrote a companion GUI for it with Electron and Vue.
For now, I can only say it barely works. Maybe I'll refactor it again at some point in the future (
File Explorer
A cloud-drive-like system. At the time, I saw in the school's student lab recruitment group that there might be this assessment project, so I didn't think much and rushed through writing it in a messy (?) way. The frontend was Vue, and the backend was Golang. When I submitted the assignment, I met the lab's frontend lead @粽子 and got successfully dragged into the frontend rabbit hole (
I wrote this during summer break, but because of the pandemic, the start of the semester was delayed by almost a month, so the interview was pushed to after school started. After a painful interview, I realized my understanding of JavaScript is really too limited. Looks like I'll have to study it more deeply in the future (。・ω・。)
Everyone in the lab is a talent, and they talk so nicely. I super love being in there, and I hope we can learn together and improve ourselves (
Obsidian Hugo Sync
Using Obsidian to manage attachments and write articles for Hugo.
Yes! This summary was written in Obsidian and published using Obsidian Hugo Sync!
I expect to write a detailed article about it later, so I'll leave this blank for now (
Bye, WordPress!
I switched the blog system from WordPress to Hugo.
WordPress is a big, comprehensive blog system with complete user management, a plugin system, a theme system, and a block editor. When building large commercial blogs or magazine sites, WordPress is very useful, but for me, WordPress is too heavy.
WordPress has been with me for a long time, from 2016 to now, from blog.zhousiru.com to ohu.ooo and now to pooi.me.
Looking back, my initial interest in programming also started with WordPress—how to make it faster, prettier, more human-friendly, and more fun. Everything I did at first was also related to blogging.
Now about Hugo: after using it for a while, I found that Hugo's theme system actually takes the place of plugin functionality and is very powerful.
But this also makes themes and the site as a whole too tightly coupled. And because it lacks a mechanism like hook, adding features to the site basically has to be done by modifying the theme itself, which makes updating / changing themes a bit of a hassle..
Weighing the pros and cons, Hugo is still a good choice for a personal blog, especially after pairing it with Obsidian Hugo Sync
2023: What I'm Worried About
- All kinds of math classes—even in college, I'm still a math failure
- Job market
As everyone knows, the 2023 autumn recruitment season is a total red ocean. As a student at a regular first-tier university, my job situation will only be even harsher. Taking the postgraduate entrance exam is indeed a major path to improving one's academic credentials, but I myself have no intention of taking it, because I don't want to go through another gaokao.. This problem has really been bothering me all along. I hope the job market will improve in three or four years.. right? - Not capable enough
I'm such a noob; there's still so much to learn
That's about it for the 2022 year-end summary. I wish everyone can become the ideal version of themselves in 2023!