The most worth sharing thing during my college years, I think, is the starry sky. It has been a part of my college life and also the enlightenment on my programmer's journey.
I also stayed to give back to the starry sky the technology and inspiration it gave me in the past two years. I hope to continue and provide better resources for the next generation.
However, when choosing a path, it is impossible to predict its twists and turns.
I have summarized my journey in the starry sky for the past two years, and it is like a diary. I want to record this precious time and hope to help juniors and friends who are confused and hesitant.
Two years ago#
On the night of the school organization's recruitment booth, I walked into the crowd with the idea of joining in the fun and seeing the girls. I declined the invitation to join the student union and avoided the student volunteers, but I couldn't avoid the starry sky. The starry sky was the only organization in the recruitment booth that focused on internet technology. With the idea of learning, I immersed myself in this vibrant place. After two simple trainings and two assessments, I successfully joined the starry sky and became one of the thirty people out of more than two hundred students who stayed. I was quite proud at that time. (I still remember how anxious I was every time the assessment results were about to be announced, looking at my phone.)
After getting to know each other, we started to engage in extracurricular activities. Due to the school's restrictions, our extracurricular activities in the starry sky became playing games in the school. My senior brother told me that the extracurricular activities in the starry sky were called "getting out of singlehood" (but I have never seen anyone getting out of singlehood in the extracurricular activities). Seeing that I was still hesitating, he said,
Senior Brother: People from other centers will also participate. There are many girls in other centers.
Me: I'm ready in my starry sky uniform. When do we leave?
At that time, I still thought that we were college students, what's the point of running around and playing games in school? But in the end, our team had the most fun and even won a prize, a box of snacks hhhhhhhhh.
After the joy, the tasks of the weekly self-study and the teasing from Xie Feng followed.
"Look at you" (referring to a pig)
"What kind of code are you writing?"
"You added a task!"
Damn it, when I become a big shot in the future, I must fight back.
Once the seeds of change are planted, opportunities will quietly appear with your thoughts.
That period of time was really a period of rapid growth. I went from attending self-study once a week to twice a week. I did the tasks assigned by my senior brother, while frantically searching on Google and Baidu. That's how I got to know platforms like GitHub, Stack Overflow, and CSDN. In the first semester of my freshman year, the school taught C, not Java, so I was learning both C and Java at the same time. Although it was tiring, it was fulfilling. Every time I solved a bug or implemented a feature, I knew I had made progress. Although the products we made during the star training camp were not perfect and we stayed up late coding, it was still a great sense of accomplishment to have a product with a basic functionality presented to everyone.
I didn't really want to stay for the summer and winter training camps. Although it was just staying at school for a week after the final exams, I went to the office every day to study. But I guess my mind was already on vacation after the exams, and I just wanted to relax. But in the end, my supervisor forced me to stay, and he even lied to me that he would also be there, but I never saw him. Damn it, I was tricked. But I have to admit that I learned a lot during this period, and it was at the sharing session that I got to know about the field of blogging. The main reason was that everyone was studying, so I didn't feel like playing around.
Stepping onto the stage of the starry sky, seizing every opportunity, doing what you love with like-minded friends, and constantly growing oneself, it's really cool.
One year ago#
The first thing I did when I returned to school was to recruit new members. To be honest, most programmers are not good at dealing with strangers. I guess it's because we spend most of our time with computers and develop introverted personalities. On the other hand, the people from the media department are constantly interacting with others, and almost every freshman who comes by wants to know about photography and videos, which makes the tech guys quite jealous. Xiao Zhi probably couldn't stand it anymore and urged us to recruit more people, probably afraid that the starry sky's technology would die out with us hhhhhhhhh.
During the interviews, it was interesting to see the nervous freshmen. I think I was probably seen the same way by my senior brothers and sisters back then - a young and hopeful person. Although inexperienced, we were full of hope and energy. But when the experienced juniors and seniors from the third and fourth years came in, I was dumbfounded. There's a mole, abort the mission. I thought their hairlines didn't look like those of freshmen, how could they pretend?
The last question in the written test asked: What kind of people do you think programmers are? Jian Cong drew a picture in the answer area, with several stick figures together, and drew stars above them. He drew a sun in the upper left corner and a moon in the upper right corner, with double arrows connecting them, and there was a computer below, with a code written on it. When we saw that simple drawing, we wanted to laugh because we knew he was just messing around. So we asked him what it meant.
Ah, I think programmers are like good friends, working hard and learning together under the same starry sky from day to night.
Even now, I still think that this is not only an interpretation of programmers, but also the best interpretation of the starry sky. I have a clear answer in my heart about the starry sky.
Because of some reasons, I needed to take on the role of CTO, but I guess because I didn't have any good insights into the development of the starry sky at that time, and I didn't really understand what the role of CTO was supposed to bear, the teachers from the school's student union probably thought I was too immature. But I have to admit that it was indeed a problem with my own abilities. Afterwards, I reflected on myself and realized that having courage without ability is not enough to achieve anything. We should also broaden our horizons and perspectives.
After that, I trained the six new members who joined. They had more potential than me when I was a freshman, and they learned quickly. One of them even had development experience before joining. The younger generation is always formidable. The growth of the younger generation also brought me pressure. I hope they can learn more in this year, so I didn't stop my own progress. It was also by chance that I came across Xiao Te's blog and the blog of an Alibaba expert. Maybe there's something valuable to learn? It turned out that there was indeed something valuable, not just in terms of technology, but also about the starry sky. From the words between the lines in his articles, I caught a glimpse of the starry sky of the past and the starry sky after a few years. Sitting on the time machine of memories, I had a conversation with this stranger and listened to the stories of the starry sky from his mouth. It felt really strange, reading a story and experiencing it at the same time.
At that time, I was also thinking about whether I could use what I had learned in the past year to give back to the starry sky. Unfortunately, it all ended without any results. On the other hand, the small projects I tinkered with while learning front-end development went online, unintentionally.
Being in a management position is tiring. In addition to learning technical skills, there are also many trivial matters and disagreements with colleagues from other departments. But through the collision of ideas, I also learned something, and it made me happy to see those little juniors scolding me while doing the tasks I assigned them.
The pursuit of improvement is endless. On the stage of the starry sky, we should make use of its resources to create what we want and enrich ourselves. This is not only personal growth, but also mutual achievement.
Now#
In response to the organizational reform promoted by the school, Starry Sky, as a university-level organization, is about to come to an end. I should be one of the first people to know this news. On the morning of September 4th, a meeting of university-level organizations was held, and we were officially informed of this news. In the afternoon of September 4th, I walked around the office alone, silently bidding farewell to this place full of stories and vitality. After that, we held a meeting of the management team and also had meetings with the members of each center. Finally, we came up with the path we should take. Starry Sky Student Innovation Center is preparing to transform into a studio.
But since I have chosen to follow my heart, I must be prepared for the worst.
In the following month, I ran around, asking teachers from the School of Computer Science and my senior brothers and sisters. I asked about the establishment of the studio and the ways to join the entrepreneurship park, but in the end, there were no good results. I gradually came to terms with it. Xiao Te also said: When we win, we celebrate together; when we fail, we fight together. Unity is the key to success. Without unity, nothing can be achieved. If everyone is willing to take action, I think many problems will no longer be problems. Taking action is the key to solving problems.
What will happen next is uncertain. I hope the starry sky buddies can still be enthusiastic and actively pursue what they want to achieve.
Do well in the present and there will be a future.
That year, we looked at the starry sky
There were so many brilliant dreams
At least memories will last forever
Like an unchanging starry sky
Accompanying me
In the end, only the starry sky remains
Like an unchanging memory
Accompanying me
The above is the story of a retired starry sky member during their two years in the starry sky. I hope this true story can be of some value to you. The wind is blowing, and I should also leave.