Learning and personal journeys
Three dedicated stories about TOEFL preparation, the system architect exam, and applying to Georgia Tech’s M.S. in Computer Science program.
2026.02–2026.07
53 → 100TOEFL Score
How a full-time software engineer connected fragmented time, deliberate practice, and AI feedback into a working learning system.
Read the full storyThe tool for sentence-level listening, shadowing, and review. This account is about the practice method itself.
2025.03–2025.11
43 → PASSFirst attempt → Final result
Two system architect exams in 2025: a first failure, a second pass, and the shift from memorizing answers to building recallable structures.
Read the full story2026.02–2026.08
07.25 → 08.10Application → Admission
From learning English and revisiting computer science fundamentals to turning fifteen years of engineering and research into an admission to Georgia Tech’s M.S. in Computer Science program.
Read the full storyThis account describes the difficulty of working on agent applications: knowing where a wrong result went wrong, and changing one part without breaking the rest.
