40 questions - 2024 version
Original - https://stephango.com/40-questions
1. What did you do this year that you’d never done before?
Solo travel to a female friends' place across the country to stay for ~1 week (edit: this raised a lot of speculations, so to clarify - no, she's just a really close senior friend. nothing romantic. thanks.)
2. Did you keep your new year’s resolutions?
Forgot to make resolutions last time :|
3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
No
4. Did anyone close to you die?
Yes :(
5. What cities/states/countries did you visit?
here's a map
6. What would you like to have next year that you lacked this year?
More self-confidence
7. What date(s) from this year will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
20th November(resigned from my first ever job), 26th November(signed my new contract)
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Publishing my first first-authored paper, getting a job abroad and creating a CTF team
9. What was your biggest failure?
Prottlings
10. What other hardships did you face?
Struggled a lot mentally
11. Did you suffer illness or injury?
Nothing major, but was pretty sick a couple of times
12. What was the best thing you bought?
JBL over-ear wireless headphones
13. Whose behavior merited celebration?
My supervisor at my new job
14. Whose behavior made you appalled?
Old company HR. What pieces of shit
15. Where did most of your money go?
The bank
16. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
Seeing Magnus Carlsen irl
17. What song will always remind you of this year?
Mr. Brightside
18. Compared to this time last year, are you: happier or sadder? Thinner or fatter? Richer or poorer?
Nervous Happy; Same as before; Richer
19. What do you wish you’d done more of?
Reading
20. What do you wish you’d done less of?
Wasting time at my old job
21. How are you spending the holidays?
Ding chilling
22. Did you fall in love this year?
sigh.
23. Do you hate anyone now that you didn’t hate this time last year?
The collective entity of HR
24. What was your favorite show?
Hell's Paradise
25. What was the best book you read?
A Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
26. What was your greatest musical discovery of the year?
Rosé
27. What was your favorite film?
A Man Called Otto
28. What was your favorite meal?
nothing sticks out, but probably some fish
29. What did you want and get?
A research position in Europe
30. What did you want and not get?
A PhD position, but I don't want it anymore. see this
31. What did you do on your birthday?
Nothing significant
32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
Successfully getting the autograph of Magnus Carlsen
33. How would you describe your personal fashion this year?
Better than before
34. What kept you sane?
My friends
35. Which celebrity/public figure did you admire the most?
Tim Minchin
36. What political issue stirred you the most?
idk
37. Who did you miss?
My doggo
38. Who was the best new person you met?
My sister's husband
39. What valuable life lesson did you learn this year?
Experience is just the confidence to ask silly questions
40. What is a quote that sums up your year?
"What are we if not gods on keyboards"