From Yarn to AI: My Student Story

Welcome to CodeInTheHook , where anime energy, crochet creativity, and coding chaos collide. This holiday season, I turned my crafting journey into its own anime arc—complete with quests, training episodes, filler moments, and a finale stitched with love. Grab your yarn, your hook, or just a cup of hot cocoa, and join me as I recount the Christmas Arc: Stitches of Love —a story of handmade gifts, self-doubt battles, and the quiet magic of sending love across the miles. 🌸🧶🎄 --------------------------------------------------- 🌟🎁Prologue: The Gift Dilemma 🎁 🌟 October. The air begins to cool. The leaves begin to change colors. I glance at the calendar and sigh. Christmas is just a few months away. The countdown has begun, and with it, the inevitable question: What gifts am I going to give? The International Bank of Alisha is running dry—funds low, creativity high. But then my eyes land on the corner of my room: a glorious stash of yarn, practically shimmering like treasure in an ...

Today I officially wrapped up my third week at Maestro College — and winter break has finally begun. Wahoo!! 🎉 This week was… a lot. I learned plenty, but the one thing that really grabbed me by the hoodie strings and refused to let go was dictionaries. No, not Webster. Not Urban Dictionary. I mean Python dictionaries — the tiny data structures with the audacity to look simple while secretly plotting my downfall. 📚🐍 The moment I saw them, my brain went full anime protagonist: Contacts lists. Seriously? I can make one. Wait... can I make one? Ummm… how does this even work? And just like that, my first real Python project — a contact directory with search features — was born. A cute idea, right? WRONG. 💀 This tiny script dragged me through the five stages of coding grief like it had something to prove. I spent hours: 😵‍💫 pulling my hair 🔁 rewriting the same line 47 times 🌀 getting trapped in loops I absolutely did not mean to create 😩 questioning every life choice that led me t...

“ A tragicomedy starring me, caffeine, and the universe’s bad sense of humor, featuring infinite loops, crochet crises, and one very dramatic cart abandonment. ” ⏰ Late Start Because obviously my alarm is the spawn of Satan and decided to take an early vacation. I wanted the early bus—you know, so I could actually feel accomplished and get things done today. But instead, my alarm went on strike, my bed held me hostage, and there was no one around to pay the ransom. So there I was, an hour late, already winning at life . ☕ Coffee Betrayal With a fresh cup of coffee in hand, I ran to the already waiting bus, expecting to see the lovely Mattie—the driver who greets everyone by name. But lo and behold, it was the other bus driver. You know the one: the non-talker, no one knows his name, guardian of the sacred “no drinks allowed” rule. And my fresh, steaming cup of coffee? Public enemy number one. Toss it or wait another hour. Guess who sacrificed caffeine to the transit gods? Me. Goodbye,...

Week One: Chill Vibes & Python Whispers Today marks the beginning of a new week, and I’ve officially survived Week One of college. 🎉 Honestly? It was chill. No all-nighters, no ramen-fueled breakdowns. Just me, my laptop, and Python whispering sweet logical nothings into my brain. There’s something satisfying about seeing code click into place, like solving a puzzle🧩 that actually does something. Everyone keeps asking me, “So… what are your goals when you get your degree?” And I’m like: 🧶 Goal #1: Don’t accidentally unravel my whole project like a dropped skein 💻 Goal #2: Learn enough code to make my church’s website stop looking like it was designed in 1999. 😕 Goal #3: ❓❓❓¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ❓❓❓ (freeze‑frame) thunder crack ⚡, cape flutters, title card slams: “ARC: THE UNKNOWN PATH” Honestly, this whole journey started because I wanted to learn how to code my church’s website. That small spark turned into something bigger: now I’m fascinated by both the logic and the ...

"Day two of my AI journey, and I’ve already been gaslit by my tutor. Plans fell apart, lessons went sideways, and somehow I ended up debating logic with a machine named Maestro. Spoiler: I won. This is the story of chaos, resilience, and why trusting your own logic matters more than trusting the answer key."  Hey there all you beautiful creatures 😵 Chaos from the Beginning Today has been one heck of a day. My plan was to travel out of town—back to my hometown—for two weeks to take care of business. But alas, my plans met the blender and were promptly discarded down the food disposal. Crossed wires can really throw a monkey wrench into your plans. Transportation was no longer in the cards, so here I sit in my house instead of my mom’s. Well, I could sulk. I could cry and fuss. NAY, I SAY! Instead of wasting the day moping and stressing about things I cannot change, I poured all that pent-up energy into my lessons. And then—another plot twist… 🤖 Did You Know AI Can Gaslight Y...

🌞 A Great Day, Magnificent Creatures Hi there, you magnificent, beautiful creatures. Today is a great day. I woke up. You woke up. (At least I hope you did. If you didn’t and you’re reading this… I have questions. 👀) 🛋 My “Office” Setup Did you know I don’t have a desk right now? Of course you didn’t—you haven’t been in my house… right? RIGHT?? So here’s the deal: my California king bed takes up almost my entire bedroom, so I turned my living room into my office. My “desk”? One of the end tables. It works in a pinch. And right next to it sits what I call The Holy Trinity —my three favorite things (well, three of them anyway). 🧶 Crochet Corner Storage was a must, so I grabbed a 3‑tier shelf from TEMU. It now holds my computer, Nintendo Switch, games, and whatever else gets tossed on it (usually a library book). But the real star? Yarn. Everywhere. Hooks galore. Skeins in every color. WIPs (works‑in‑progress) scattered across my dresser, backpack, an...