Bugging, Debugging, and Surviving Moringa: My 6-Month Journey
When I first walked into Moringa School, I thought, This is it! In six months, I’ll be a coding wizard, building apps in my sleep! Oh, how naive I was😂.
The first few weeks felt like a dream—new friends, exciting lessons, and that sweet moment when my first “Hello, World!” program ran successfully😂💪. I felt like a genius. But then reality hit. Hard.
The Bug Life Chose Me
If there’s one thing that defined my Moringa experience, it was debugging. I swear, bugs became my unofficial roommates. They were always there—hiding in my code, messing up my logic, and laughing at me while I desperately Googled solutions at 3 AM. There were nights when I’d stare at my screen for hours, convinced my code was perfect, only to have the program refuse to run. Turns out, I had a missing semicolon. A single. Missing. Semicolon.
And don’t get me started on error messages. Whoever wrote them must have had a personal vendetta against developers. “SyntaxError: Unexpected Token”? What does that even mean? Just tell me what I did wrong like a normal person!
Surviving on Coffee and WiFi
Moringa turned me into a caffeine addict☕😭. Coffee became my best friend, my survival juice, my debugging fuel🏃. I remember sitting in class with a cup in one hand and my head in the other, questioning all my life choices. Sleep became optional. Some nights, I’d close my laptop at 5 AM, take a “quick nap,” and wake up 10 minutes before class. Looking back, I have no idea how I survived.
But despite the chaos, there were moments of pure joy—like finally solving a bug that had tormented me for days or helping a classmate understand a tricky concept. Those small victories made all the struggles worth it.
The People Who Kept Me Sane
If I had to pick the best thing about Moringa, it wouldn’t be the coding skills (though those were great). It would be the people. The friendships I made during those six months were priceless. We struggled together, laughed together, and carried each other through moments of despair.
I’ll never forget the late-night coding sessions where we’d take “short breaks” that turned into two-hour joke sessions. Or the times we’d all celebrate after finally fixing a stubborn bug—because at Moringa, even a missing semicolon felt like a boss fight.
Graduation: The Final Boss Battle
December 2024 came faster than expected, and somehow, against all odds, I made it. I graduated🤩🙏✝️. I walked out of Moringa not just as a software developer but as a problem-solver, a coffee addict☕, and a proud survivor of the “bug life.💪”
Looking back, Moringa was tough, exhausting, and sometimes downright frustrating. But it was also one of the best experiences of my life. It taught me resilience, teamwork, and the power of perseverance.
Would I do it all over again? Probably. But only if they promise to update those error messages😂😭😭.