Week #11 — Thank you.
Sachin C -
Dear reader,
Thank you for reading my blog posts these past 11 weeks. Through this time, I renewed my passion for computers in a way I never could have possibly expected. I accomplished things I never thought I’d be able to and discovered things that fascinated me even as I was hastily scribbling them down.
Of course it was hard; computers are a perfect reflection of what we put into them, and a good portion of what I fed mine was plain incorrect. It was frustrating and difficult and made me feel like I wanted to give up a million times, but that made watching a computer born to life by my own hands work for the first time all the more beautiful.
Through these blog posts, I talked about the work I had done as if it was the easiest, most natural thing to me. But every word I typed into a post was the result of hours of infuriating work. That infuriating work led me to some incredibly fascinating discoveries that made the exhaustion melt away, where burning curiosity replaced the void in my mind.
Computer engineering, and computer science, and every computer-adjacent field is an incredible field because it is the only field where every mistake is a bitter reflection of your own work. Every bug is your fault, and can almost never be chalked up to a fluke, or a chance happening. Every tiring task, every framework that could have been written a hundred times better, is the result of thousands of people’s hard work — if you have a problem with it, feel free to take it up with them.
That’s why I have to thank you for keeping up with me. As new and revolutionary as the field I did research in is, there was so much more that made it interesting than the numbers I posted onto my blog. So for the last time,
Thank you for reading.
— Sachin Chandra