Can't believe I'm finally doing this!

I've always wanted to write a blog and create a tech YouTube channel — I think having a blog will have to be enough for now.

A little background for you

Well, my name is Rodrigo. I'm a recent CS graduate, and honestly, I'm just trying to understand where I fit in all of this.

I've always done a lot of things during college — organized events, created personal projects for the CS community at UFCG (which is the university I graduated from), and even joined a handful of partnership projects between the university and different companies.

It was great, don't get me wrong. These were amazing experiences. But by the time I reached my final semesters, I thought I had everything figured out. I knew how to get into projects, how to organize events that really worked, and I felt like there was nothing left for me to do. I thought, "I had done it all!"

But later I came to realize I was actually just tricking myself.

I got tired

I thought the feeling I had could be defined as "wholesome" somehow — like I had done everything, and now my journey was just maintaining what I had achieved.

Unconsciously, though, I was fooling myself so I wouldn't have to learn anything new. I joined projects doing things I already knew, or things that required the least possible effort to learn.

I just got tired of everything, I guess.

I ran out of fuel — stopped learning, stopped creating, stopped doing exactly the things I always said I loved about CS.

But not anymore!

So what's this blog for?

Now, almost a year after graduating, I realized I want to rediscover what I really like and find myself again in this career. I hope to get back to learning new things, challenging myself, and trying to solve daily struggles with technology — and hopefully, land a job at a company I like (just a hint for my next post 👀).

This blog came to me as a first step on that journey, like breadcrumbs along a path I want to create for myself. So if I ever get lost again — which will probably happen — I can look back and remember why I started and where I wanted to go.

That’s why I’ll use this platform to document and share the things I learn and the insights I gain along the way.

Hope you’ll stick with me on this journey.

Xero