Day 29/30 — Wear Headgear
I feel like coding has been a full contact sport this week. Every day I go home with a near migraine and just exhausted mentally and emotionally. Each day has brought on a certain level of anxiety and mixed amount of terror.
It all compounds itself day after day. Did you get it Monday? Nope well too bad because Tuesday is building on that and whatever you should know on Monday is required on Tuesday. So by Thursday it’s…what the hell happened?
I’ve been trying to think of an analogy to this week in working on Mongo and Mongoose and the best I can think of is this:
Imagine you’re presented with a brick wall 10 feet tall and 5 feet thick on Monday. You’re job is to get through the wall, completely, by Friday. Every day a challenge is presented to you that deters/distracts from this work.
Monday: You’re presented with the wall and given a rubber mallet to get through the wall. Then gnats are let lose to be dealt with as well.
Tuesday: Half the gnats are dead! But now mosquitos have taken their place. But you now have a claw hammer! Real damage is being done.
Wednesday: The gnats seem to be repopulating and you’ve only killed five of the mosquitos, probably more but you really don’t know, the claw hammer broke, and in frustration you ran at the wall and dislocated your shoulder. Now there are bees!
Thursday: You’ve killed off most of the gnats, the mosquitos are lurking around but still there, the bees you’ve left alone so they won’t sting you, and you now have a sledgehammer!
Friday: The instructor gives you a pickaxe, headgear, and body-gear. You’ve put on headgear/body-gear to keep the mosquitos, remaining gnats, and the bees out of your face as you keep swinging away switching between a pickaxe and sledgehammer. Now you have holes in the wall! Then you go to the instructor for assistance and they show up riding a wrecking ball to show you how to do it.
Oh and a new swarm just arrived through the destroyed wall.
This is what coding bootcamp is like.

Struggles: Creating a login page that connects to an established user database. Also my hangman game shows a letter if it’s correct, but only one, and in the wrong order. Plus it doesn’t stop the game upon end of guesses.
Understood: I’m sure there’s something I picked up but my mind is literally thinking about the weekly assignment due at noon and the one due on Monday that I’ve barely touched.
Looking forward to: I should probably put something other than SQL here but…SQL. Maybe I guess choosing a track. I might do some research today about Rails and React.