One of the more infuriariting things I have come across on the GitHub platform is people using bots to mass follow other people, in hopes for a follow back (or more importantly, some stars and forks on their projects).

However, when unreciprocated with a follow and some stars, their main goal is to unfollow and refollow, thus coming on the top of my timeline again.

They keep this up for a very long period of times, sometimes almost thrice a week for 2 months.

I am done with this stuff, and obviously GitHub's reporting button does not do anything much.

Go out and create something. Put time and effort into it. Sometimes, you may find yourself to be in a rut that is difficult to come out of. But, do create something and put your soul and effort into it.

We are finally in a weird late stage capitialism point wherein we have successfully monetized everything, on a rolling basis. Mediocre products are sold at exorbitant pricing, and even our sanity and emotions are being taken away from us. Social media has monetized being famous, and gives an equal voice to everyone regardless of their qualifications or backgrounds. Your value is only based on ephemeral metrics and numbers, and the joy of creating has become transformed into a dread of meeting deadlines that fulfill sponsorship contracts.

$ ./status-update

This entry is going to be published in multiple
parts.

It's the process of looking back and into my
whole academic journey. It's gonna take a while to
complete, but I am enjoying the process of writing this.

Also moved to Boston, and plan to write all my thoughts 
in the next couple of weeks.

Pls. read Part 1 first, then come back here.

Sophomore year of university: somehow things get both worse and better. I think the weirdest part to grasp, personally, was the new and unknown environment.

$ ./status-update

This entry is going to be published in multiple
parts.

It's the process of looking back and into my
whole academic journey. It's gonna take a while to
complete, but I am enjoying the process of writing this.

Also moving to Boston, which delays stuff.

So this is it, in the past month I graduated from my Undergraduate journey at UMass Amherst, and now I look forward to greater opportunities in life. I think for this newsletter, I'd like to take a step back and recount some good memories, what I learnt, and what I want to take forward in life as a UMass Amherst Alum.

Drew a self portrait of myself as a fun activity while meeting up with friends at Jandon Center. Here goes :)