Day 21 & 22 — Slowing Down, Still Showing Up

Debadrita PalDebadrita Pal
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🧠 Day 21 & 22 — When It Gets Harder, I Still Show Up

These past two days haven’t been about big breakthroughs.
They’ve been about just staying in motion — even when I feel the pull to stop.

The truth is, juggling C++, Python, and Web Dev is starting to feel heavy.
Concepts are getting deeper, time is tighter, and with midsems next week, my brain feels scattered.

But I still showed up.


✅ What I Did

🗓️ Day 21 – Just Web dev

  • Played with basic HTML structures and semantic layout

  • Also learned about fonts

🗓️ Day 22 – HTML , CSS + C++ Strings

  • Continued HTML practice, refining structure and tags

  • learned about Colours in CSS

  • Completed strings in C++:

    • Manipulation, input/output etc
  • Skipped Python again — couldn’t stretch that far mentally


🌱 Small Wins Outside the Code

🧠 TEDx Curation Role

  • Applied for the TEDx Curation Team of our University

  • Cleared the first round and entered Phase 2 of counselling!

  • It felt good to step up and say: “I want to contribute.”

🧍‍♀️ UBA Volunteering

  • Also applied for a volunteer post under UBA (Unnat Bharat Abhiyan)

  • Didn’t get a callback this time — but it’s okay
    → Not every door is meant to open, and that's fine too.


🔗 GitHub Pushes

  • web-dev-start/day21-22-html-practice.html

  • cpp-practice/day22-strings-final.cpp


🧠 Reflections

Burnout is real. Pressure is real.
But showing up in some form — even small — is always possible.

I’m not at my most productive.
But I’m still here, still logging, still learning.

That’s Day 21 and 22. Two slower days. But the streak lives.

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Debadrita Pal
Debadrita Pal

🎓 CSE @ VIT Bhopal | Romantic at heart, dev at war 💻 Learning C++, Web Dev & AI — one bug at a time ✍️ Writing the raw truth of a Tier-3 coder building toward Stanford & self-made success 💖 16 novels in 2 months. 💀 0 cardio sessions by choice. Soft energy. Hard code. Sharp mind.