Missing Semester Solutions

Overview

This was the first coding project I ever made that wasn’t just an exercise.
I wanted to practice what I learned from w3schools tutorials (HTML/CSS/JS/PHP) while also reinforcing ideas from MIT’s Missing Semester. The result was a simple static-ish site that collected my solutions and exercises in one place.

Why it mattered

• It was basic and only frontend, but it taught me how to connect pieces together and finish something.
• It was deployed on its own cloud VM that I configured myself (DNS, SSL, Nginx).
• That made it the first “product” I ever delivered, and it set the tone: I enjoy shipping end-to-end systems, not just code snippets.

Looking back

The site isn’t pretty or sophisticated, but it represents an important milestone:

• I learned how to move from tutorials → building a real project.
• I got my first taste of server setup, deployment, and shipping live code.
• It still reminds me of how far I’ve come since those early days.