Today is the first day of the best month of the year! Since I was a tot I was obsessed with October, Fall, Halloween and holidays in general. I’m in love with all things spooky! Cooler weather is on the way and that means going for walks and seeing the leaves change color, which is always magical to see. Today also marks the start of Hacktober, which is an event that lasts all October and encourages people all of coding (or non-coding) backgrounds to contribute to open-source projects. I’ve spent a great deal of time already searching for something I can contribute to as someone with very little coding experience to do anything with. If you manage to get in 4 pull requests on Github by the end of the month, you will receive a free tshirt! Cool stuff. I’ll see what I can do.

For LS, we are in the middle of creating a tic tac toe game. The first time I ran through the code was frustrating, I ended up feeling overwhelmed and got a headache trying to wrap my head around all the methods and whatnot. I spent some time today rewatching the pry video and also the tic tac toe ones to review. This has to be the way I do things from now on: watching videos whilst coding along with them, then rewatching the same videos the next day. I understand a little bit more now why certain things are done the way they are and that gives me hope that I will eventually understand the whole game. It’s getting to the bonus features that is troubling. I’m not sure if it’s mandatory but I do them anyway as best as I can because learning this stuff properly is very much important to me.

I’ve been trying to increase my study hours and even if I’m sick of seeing this stuff, I still think that I’m mentally able to. However, the internet situation here at this dreadful apartment complex is making my life miserable. I’ve been trying to get this resolved for maybe a week now but no one from the internet company has talked to me. The internet seems to be getting worse. I feel bad for Vin because we got a phone plan thinking that we could get hotspot, but apparently our phones are not compatible for it with our current service carrier. It’s complicated. Why is it so difficult to just have good internet connection?

Anyway, that’s it for tonight. I’m not sure if I’ll have to study outside of home because of the internet. I don’t really want to, but I’ll have to decide tonight. I also haven’t been spending time crocheting or playing games, or anything personally fun lately because I’ve been solely worried about school, but I think that it’s important for me to carve out time like that to just have fun. Can’t be too serious all the time now!