Hi guys😃, myself Akshat Bhardwaj, I'm a student and on my way to become a self-taught programmer. 💻

10th Standard (pre-pandemic)🏫

I've studied in the same school from nursery to class 12th and I use to look upon my seniors and see them having fun all the time playing on the school playground ⚽🏏taking part in school festive programs and even in administration, and me and my friends use to dream about reaching highschool and experience all these things as well.

So, the last of day 9th standard was one of my most exciting day in my entire school-life, everyone in my class was excited to leave everything behind and start a completely different phase of our school-life. And yes it did happen, class 10th was an awesome experience. In class 10th me & my friends literally took part in every possible competition that our school organized from sports to poetry.

I'm a only child so, I am not very social, more of a introvert that's the reason I never took part in anything before reaching highschool and I wouldn't have took part in anything but I'm glad to have such amazing friends you motivated me and believed in me, which helped me to explore other side of my personality. That was were some amazing times not only I got to experiencing new things but also winning 🏆some of those competition helped me gain back some of my confidence.

11th & 12th Standard (During Pandemic)🏫

Everyone in my class was excited to have experience a preview of what they can do as a highschool student so, now it's the time for the real deal. After completing our 10th final exams I was making plans what to do in upcoming 11th because we don't have boards exam this year and I thought let's keep this momentum and with this new found self-confidence I thought that this year I'll run for the position of Secretary of School or Field Marshall and make some presence in the school.

But in life things not always happen the way you want them to be. And as I was awaiting to achieve my dream to put everything on hold a global pandemic ☣(Covid-19) broke out, so deadly and contagious that even world superpowers were clueless on how to defeat it. But whatever effect it had on the world it is weird that due to this pandemic I learned a lot and saw a drastic change in my mindset.

Earlier few months everyone was confused🤔, studies were put on hold and nobody knew when we're going to get back on track. And I was also not doing anything productive just watching random YouTube videos and playing games on my mobile 📱🎮during this time but since I always had a particular interest in the field of Computers, I decided to give it a shot and I had no idea what I was getting into. And as I went on YouTube I was so confused because there are so many resources out there my brain started to hurt there were so many things and different stacks I didn't know which I tech I should pursue.

So, I figured Web-development aligned best with my interest. Then I started a free web development course on YouTube and I learned lot of things and even made some beginner level projects. But to be honest after sometime I was wasted and just didn't want to look my laptop 💻screen anymore. After that I wanted to try many new things, one of those to start a YouTube channel (Spoiler - Nothing worked out). Trying to make a successful YouTube channel was so much fun, I enjoyed every thing about the process but making one is not as easy I thought it would be I tried different niches from teaching Mathematics to Posting Meme videos . But one thing that worked out trying to be fit. Now the main thing I was always conscious about was my weight but during pandemic trying free fitness💪🏋️‍♂️ advice from YouTube was actually successful and I lost about 18 kilograms in 7 months and still counting.

My thoughts ✌

After literally destroying almost all of my highschool life at least this pandemic thought me some valuable lessons.

• First and most valuable ✨thing that I learned when I look back to these 2 years that now I'm less afraid of trying anything new and exploring about myself because now everything is online you can just try new things and fail and nobody is going to judge you. (Like this blog, I've never written this much in my entire life)

• Second thing that I learnt during this time was the how precious my time ⌚ was and I was just wasting it instead of using it to learn new skills and work on my personality development.

• Last Thing that I learnt during pandemic was how important networking is. Earlier I use to try to find out solution to problems by myself and most of the time I didn't received what I hoped for but as soon as I joined communities with like minded individuals my knowledge grew exponentially📈 and I've always received best advice from the people who faced same challenges.📊

✍And at last, I would like to conclude this blog by saying that keep trying and keep failing because failing is better than not trying. And always learn something new everyday explore different fields and make sure to join some kind of community and try to build a network.