The last day of 2025. Reflection and memories ahead.

Created on December 31, 2025

2025

To celebrate New Year’s Eve, around 9 o’clock my roommates invited me to hangout in the central area. We took a metro and here’s some of the moments I captured.

Fireworks from the exit view of Ba Son Terminal.
Jolly music.
Some photos lol.

So I was wandering my thoughts, I pondered about what I had faced and done in 2025, together with whether if it could get better if I were to redo it all over again. Let’s go through my mental status altogether shall we?
warning: ranting ahead

Month:

  1. I suffered from grinding for my GPA. I signed up for a bunch of bs-tier courses (obligatory for graduating) at my school. I broke up with my ex gf around this time. I started to get distant with my friends.
  2. I enjoyed the Tet holiday but still couldn’t stop myself from doing self destructive behaviours like procrastinating and not having any meaningful insights into Comp Neuro.
  3. Came back to school and made a fuss altogether with my self-founded friend group. Dead
  4. Starting to Dead, was doing a competition but that one also dropped out.
  5. Slightly Dead, was doing Hopfield Network and struggle alot against communication across team members.
  6. Dead, no one is by my side at this time of the year. I did every revision on the second semester alone. Beginning the first phases of grief: Denial, Anger, Bargaining.
  7. Dead, mistreating myself mentally and physically. Alternating between intermediate phases of grief: Anger, Bargaining, Depression. Mostly Anger and Depression.
  8. Dead, entering final phase of grief: Acceptance. Starting to open up to a bigger pool of connections beyond my current university.
  9. Starting to recover and preparing for new semester.
  10. Recovering and wandering around aimlessly.
  11. Recovering and wandering around aimlessly.
  12. Recovering and wandering around aimlessly.

$\Rightarrow \text{ }$ My problem is that I have my emotions and self-validation relying too much on external factors, I need to grow more independent, being able to provide myself with intrinsic gratification + feedback.

Current unfinished schoolwork:

  1. Point Cloud Library: Lý Quốc Ngọc
    + Slides.pdf
    + Bai Tap Lop Nha
    + Report.pdf
    • Method
    • Exp
    • Conclusion
  2. SAM LQN
    + Slides.pdf
    + Bai Tap Lop Nha
    + Report.pdf
    • Method
    • Exp
    • Conclusion
  3. Lab (2 mục) XLA LQN
    • Vague AF
  4. A viva for final lab (OS)
    • Never touching this again
  5. Final Prep (làm đề)
    • Introductions to AI
      • 1st Order Logic
      • Resolution Inference
      • Decision Tree
    • Linux Applications & Operating System
      • Topic
        • Bash basic commands
        • User vs root management
        • File management
        • DNS & SSH
        • Basic network management
      • Seminar
        • CI/CD in Action: Jenkins for Automated Builds
        • Docker Essentials: Containerizing Your First App
        • Getting Started with Kubernetes
        • Infrastructure as Code with Terraform
        • Ansible for Server Configuration Automation
        • Deploying Web Apps with Nginx
        • Deploying Web Apps with Apache
        • HAProxy for High Availability
        • HTTPS the Easy Way: Caddy Web Server
        • Scheduling Tasks with Cron and systemd timers
        • htop, atop, and Beyond: System Monitoring Tools
        • Log Management and Rotation with logrotate
        • Netdata for Real-Time Linux Monitoring
        • Monitoring Infrastructure with ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana)
        • Zabbix: Comprehensive Infrastructure Monitoring
        • Encrypting Files and Emails with GPG
        • Managing Linux Firewalls with firewalld
        • Git Basics for Linux Users
        • Vagrant for Lightweight VM Automation
        • Managing Software with APT, DNF, and Snap
        • Monitoring Microservices with Prometheus and Grafana
      • 50 multiple choice - 90 mins.
    • Operating System
      • Topic:
        • ~~Tong quan He Dieu Hanh: 4 ~~
        • He thong nhap xuat: 4
        • He thong tap tin & FAT32: 15 (LT+BT)
        • Dieu phoi tien trinh & Dong bo hoa: 15 (LT+BT)
        • Quan ly bo nho & Bo nho ao: 15 (LT+BT)
      • 50 multiple choice questions - 90 mins.
      • Only allow 1 A4 paper + calculator.
    • Computer Graphics
      • Fill Methods (W7): Scanline Filling, Flood Filling
      • Image Blending/ Compositing (W8): Blend Line into Rectangle, Blend Polygon into Rectangle, Blend Polygon into Convex Polygon.
      • Wireframes and Curve presentation (W10): PTIT Resources
      • Viewport to window port (W10)
      • Projection Transformations (W11)
    • Image and Video Processing
      • Proving PCA (W9)
      • Fourier Transform (W7)
      • Image Restoration from Frequency Domain (W8)
      • Image Segmentation (W10)