I was inspired by https://stephango.com/40-questions, but I reduced the number of questions to 20 so that I wouldn’t feel lazy doing this.

1. What did you do this year that you’d never done before?

  • Present seminar and thesis report, Graduation ceremony

2. Did you get your goal done?

  • I don’t remember the goal tbh 😢

3. What would you like to have next year that you lacked this year?

  • A job 🙂, and money, too

4. What was your biggest achievement?

  • Complete seminar and thesis, Graduated from HCMUS

5. What was your biggest failure?

  • My thesis’s quality wasn’t as I expected

6. What other hardships did you face?

  • Sleep deprivation, Time management, Doing thesis

7. Did you suffer illness or injury?

  • Yes, ingrow toenail before Lunar New Year 🙂

8. What was the best thing you bought?

  • Nothing, cause I don’t have money 😢

9. Where did most of your money go?

  • Coffee and books 🥲

10. What did you get really, really, really excited about?

  • Mathematical Finance, Information Theory, Doing a thesis (until I actually do it 🙂)

11. What do you wish you’d done more of?

  • Learning

12. What do you wish you’d done less of?

  • Procrastination, watching movies

13. What was the best book you read?

  • Atomic Habits - James Clear

14. What was your favorite song?

  • Don’t know but my Spotify Wrapped and SoundCloud vote for:

This song help me cope with my thesis 🙏.

15. What was your favorite movie?

  • Movie: The Wild Robot
  • Series: Go Back Couple, Our Unwritten Seoul

16. What did you want and get?

  • Graduated from HCMUS

17. What did you want and not get?

  • IELTS, a job

18. What did you learn this year?

  • Finance, Information Theory, Parkinson’s law (hits hard), a bit of cooking

19. What valuable life lesson did you learn this year?

  • If you’re not passionate about what you do, nothing else really matters.
  • “It’s all about balance, not trade-offs. A trade-off implies a sense of coercion, but every choice we make is entirely our own.”
  • Be proactive. Prepare for opportunities and seize them when they arise.

20. What is your favorite quote of the year?

  • “Obsession beats talent”