I almost can't believe it.

Summer went by so quickly but so much has happened.

We deployed our startup Housr to help students find affordable housing in the Vancouver market which has currently connected over 50 students to a lease. I fast-tracked and achieved As in the 3 courses I took this summer. If you're curious what the courses were: Business Communications II, Software Engineering, and Relational Databases.

In addition, I secured two software engineering intern offers for the fall. Taught Stanford's Code in Place and became a teaching assistant at Circuit Stream's pre-uni course to earn some extra cash on the side.

I've also been side-questing with my friends every week or so ever since I found out that "fun" doesn't always have to cost money. We explored Vancouver, playing beach volleyball with strangers, doing the Grouse Grind (haters will say I did the BCMC), hiking up Tunnel Bluffs and consecutively helping host a potluck at a friend's place for 4 weeks in a row.

Honestly, I couldn't have wished for a better summer for 2025. At the start of it, I was beginning to feel uneasy. No internship lined up. No prospects. Nothing. I honestly felt pretty lost as I even thought about my future and considered graduating early to complete a Master's.

And yet, I still kept pushing through until it became true? At some point I don't even remember if I was even applying to jobs anymore. Eventually, everything just fell into place.

"Keep learning and inevitably, success will find it's place."

Is what one of my mentor's said to me when I was in the "trenches." I didn't get it at first, but the more that time passed, the more it made sense to me... progress isn't linear.

Every hour of effort I spent, didn't directly translate into movement. And every inch that I moved also didn't mean that I was getting momentum. The funny thing about progress, however, is that you can ask anyone in the world if working out once will make them healthy and they might say no... but if you ask anyone if working out makes them healthy, they will 100% say yes. The difference lies in the continued effort, not the once and done.

Progress will sometimes delay itself like a stale red light and yet other times, it'll appear like an object closer than it appears in the mirror. So just keep moving forward.

And that leads me to my future and what's next now that my courses are over and my job finished.

This fall, I'll be interning at TD as a Software Engineering Intern in Toronto. In exactly 4 months, my contract ends and I'll be flying back home, to Calgary (which I haven't been in over 8 months). More importantly, however, is that I'll be turning 20 in 2 months. And recently, that's raised an insurmountable question in my head:

What does growing up look like?

For the next 4 months. I'm going to give it everything I can to uncover what I want myself to be as an adult. I've never had an opportunity to fully live independently, but I will in Toronto. Career, health, fitness, diet and relationships are some of the milestones that I've just started exploring. Keep me accountable on here and my contract will be a Youtube video posted, once a month about my progress.