| 447ak | Posted: 16 Jan 2025, 04:40 AM |
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Hello, I don’t even know where to start. This is the first time I’m writing something from the heart. School was a struggle for me, as most teachers lacked/didn't have passion and learning felt like a chore. When I started passing without studying it made me even more demotivated. The only thing I enjoyed was technology, so I started learning programming on my own. I joined a class for Assembly at 12, but my teacher was a disaster, a conspiracy theory lunatic and more often than not came drunk. as I grew older, I became a troubled kid, experimenting with all sorts of things, but my dream never went away. I learned some C++, Java, and even remembered some Assembly. I am fortunate enough to have the help of my parents, I eventually got into a university abroad, excited to study the only thing I loved. but when I got there, the teaching was disappointing, professors used slides that weren't even theirs, even mentors were straightforward about how sh*t the lectures were, the thing I loved was slipping away again, I found myself depressed thousands of kilometers from home in a place that felt more than depressing. that's when I found your channel. What you make is a revelation, for the first time in my life, I feel motivation, I can’t even fully grasp it, but I feel like you’ve opened my mind in ways I didn’t expect. so, as embarrassing and shameful this is, I just want to say thank you, so so much. i think you saved me. ------------- |
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| mit | Posted: 16 Jan 2025, 02:57 PM |
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Hi. I'm glad it's helped you. I went through something similar, I went to a really bad school, I was bored out of my mind every day. Then we finally got an internet connection at home, and I was able to teach myself programming and stuff in the evenings. I'm sure a lot of people have similar stories. The worst bit about it is that since every skill I had was self-taught, and I'd sat through years of being bored in class, it made it very hard to learn in a conventional way. A lot of people ask about my background, I don't want to share too much, at least not publicly. It hurts to think about. On the other hand I now have some friends from different walks of life. I've a few friends who had Asian parents who forced them (almost to the point of abuse) to spend their entire time studying. They got great results academically, but as adults they absolutely would never consider doing something like programming for fun. Anything that's similar to studying is to be avoided. In a way, that's sadder than having parents that didn't care. Find an outlet, do something creative, stay motivated, resist the urge to give up, at the end of the day nothing really matters anyway. With the number of tutorials out there it's never been easier to teach yourself new skills. Learn Blender, Blender is awesome. I wish more things could reach the same open-source critical mass as Blender. ------------- |
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