Profile

Although I already wrote my basic information on the home page, this is supposed to be a "personal statement," so I might as well write it again. It seems that most programmers enjoy writing blogs, but I do not really have that habit. I do have a Cnblogs blog, but it has not had a new post in a very long time. I do write notes in Obsidian, though. They are just absolutely not public. Notes, like conversations with AI, are highly private things. So the reason this site is called AurLemon Intro rather than AurLemon Blog is simple: I am too lazy to keep uploading new writing all the time.

Current Status

My name is Lemon (AurLemon), male, from Fuzhou, Fujian. I have tested as both INFJ and INTJ, and I was born in May 2006. I am currently a sophomore, having entered in 2024. Once I transfer into the undergraduate program in September 2026, I will officially be a junior. I have been using this avatar for almost ten years now. I grabbed it from somewhere on the internet a long time ago, and at this point I have no idea where it originally came from. My direction is TypeScript full-stack development. I am a native Chinese speaker, my English is somewhere between CET-4 and CET-6, and my Japanese is somewhere between JLPT N4 and JLPT N3. I also failed CET-6 the first time, while I got 516 on CET-4 mainly because my reading was good. So yes, I am now on my third attempt at CET-6. The second attempt is still waiting on the result, and it will probably land somewhere around 460 to 480.

I consume a lot of GL. If I had to choose the "best yuri work," I would probably say Adachi and Shimamura. The light novel, manga, and anime are all top-tier. The anime's production looks a bit underfunded, but the OST is also excellent. I often listen to J-POP and Vocaloid. The game I have spent the most time on is Minecraft, and my Java Edition ID is Aurora_Lemon. I also occasionally play Bed Wars. My main Agent is Codex's GPT, and I have also used Claude Code together with GLM just to mess around a bit. Anything code-related, such as repositories and the things I follow, is basically on my GitHub. See the project page for more details.

Honestly, I have always felt a little embarrassed that the repository with the most GitHub stars is a CSS repo. It feels kind of low-end. But that is just a fact I have to accept. And the other repositories are mostly Agent-written too, so there is not much worth showing there either. Maybe all I can really do is write some small tools. Anyway, I will absolutely never buy stars on Taobao, so please trust that the data is real. The comments from GitHub Roast about me were painfully accurate. I just went silent after reading them.

In the past few months, I have mostly been working on my own MC server and thinking about what to do next in life.

Education

The two questions I get most often from people who know me are, "Why is your junior college only two years?" and "How did you end up in junior college?" So I will briefly lay out my education history here.

1. Middle school: Fuzhou Pingdong Middle School (2018 - 2021).
2. After the high school entrance exam, I was admitted to the 3+2 five-year vocational program in Computer Application Technology under Fujian Chuanzheng Communications College. My upper-secondary and junior-college years were spent at Fujian Engineering & Economics School (2021 - 2024) and Fujian Chuanzheng Communications College (2024 - 2026).
3. After transferring to the undergraduate track, I was admitted to Fujian University of Technology for Artificial Intelligence (2026 - 2028).
4. Hopefully there is an "after that" too (2028 - 2031).

Why was junior college only two years? Because I came from the five-year track that starts after the middle school entrance exam.

As for why I ended up there, I will explain that later. First, let me talk about the transfer-to-undergraduate major choice and the decisions around it. How long did I prepare? In September 2025 I joined the World Vocational College Skills Competition with a teacher, so I was eligible to apply through the award-recipient route. Because of that, my actual exam preparation started rather late, only in January 2026. The final score was still good enough, and I chose the school I wanted through the early admission route. Why did I choose Artificial Intelligence as the major? Just because Fujian University of Technology is in Fuzhou, close to home. When I choose schools, comfort and convenience come first. As for the major itself, electronic information or computer-related fields are both acceptable to me.

During the application period, a lot of friends also advised me not to apply for Artificial Intelligence. Their argument was basically that "AI is hard to find work in unless you are from a 985 or 211 school," and Fujian University of Technology is, after all, just a non-Double-First-Class first-tier university. That claim is not completely detached from reality, but it is still far too rough. Employment is never determined by the name of a major alone. Choosing AI as a major does not mean I must work in AI in the future either, assuming I do go straight into employment after graduating from the undergraduate program.

From the standpoint of school choice convenience, the major was only secondary for me. Artificial Intelligence is more or less harmless in that regard. To be a bit shameless, I think of myself as a CS Student anyway. I even wrote that in my GitHub bio. Still, I also want to say something about a certain type of person who keeps spreading anxiety by repeating things like "you will not find work" or "how could someone from a non-Double-First-Class transfer track possibly find work." Deconstructing everything endlessly only leads to nihilism. Pointing out a problem does not mean you can solve it or avoid it. At that point it becomes a turn-based, never-ending cycle of internal exhaustion.

I am not denying degree filters or employment pressure. It is not that I refuse to accept the possibility of unemployment, and I definitely do not think I am so capable that I am guaranteed to find a job. I am impatient too. What I dislike is the habit of repeating real-world difficulty as if it were destiny. Pointing out a problem is not the same thing as solving it, and repeatedly emphasizing the probability of failure does not bring anyone closer to an answer. If you keep deconstructing everything, what remains is just nihilism. Endless nihilism and cynicism.

One last funny detail. If you look closely at the image at the very top of this page, it actually contains the emblem of Xiamen University of Technology. My original expectation was Xiamen University of Technology rather than Fujian University of Technology. Who would have guessed that Fujian University of Technology would expand enrollment for transfer students this year? Many thanks to them for taking me in.

Why Junior College

Now let me answer the question, "How did you end up in junior college?" More precisely, the real question should be, "How did you not get into high school?" Why did that happen? I took the Fuzhou entrance exam in 2021. My score passed the general high-school cutoff, but not enough for a good school. On top of that, I did not take the application process seriously, so I went straight into the five-year vocational path. Looking back, I am actually glad I ended up where I am now. I do not know whether I could have reached the same place if I had gone to a regular high school. Going from the five-year vocational track to a transfer-to-undergraduate path, I think I was lucky.

This was a kind of alternate route. The cost, however, is that HR can filter out transfer-to-undergraduate candidates with a single click. You could say I was naive in middle school and only cared about having fun. But that explanation is not convincing enough. Poor scores and bad outcomes were only surface-level symptoms. I have asked myself before: what was my middle-school life actually like? Everything was pushing me forward, yet I had no idea where I was supposed to go. Back then, my main anxiety was never "How should I learn?" but "What if I simply cannot learn this?"

At that time, I would not even try. Why did I not try? Why did I not force myself to push through? If I had done that then, many of the problems I face now should have been solved back then. Why did it drag on for so long? Still, I was also very helpless at the time. No one really helped me. No one guided me. I did not even know how to ask questions. I could only rely on myself. From 2021 to 2024, reality was like a massive test set, while my generalization ability was terrible. The end result was constant overfitting and underfitting. I lacked a feedback loop, and I also lacked genuinely useful methods to help me get out of that situation.

I went through countless anxious nights and deceived myself with all kinds of baseless "patterns." That period was ordinary on the surface, but deeply depressing. What was I supposed to do? Xiaohongshu was full of study methods. Bilibili was full of tutorials. A relative smiling and asking, "So which vocational school are you planning to attend?" and a classmate saying, "Your English is good, you have to work hard later, you still have a chance" followed by "That is just the truth, vocational school is vocational school" both pulled me right back into reality. When other people were using family resources to attend schools elsewhere or study abroad, by the time I understood what was happening and looked back, it already felt too late. Anxiety and impatience were the main themes of that period.

My middle school was a high-standard reference frame for me, full of excellent people. When the word "junior college," a term that had been repeatedly mocked in that environment, appeared on my school record for the first time, "absurd" was the word that best described how I felt. But I could not change it. I did not have the ability to achieve academic excellence, yet I had somehow developed the disease of worshipping it.

Back then I also lacked any real reference frame. I mistakenly treated the small circles I lived in online as if they were the whole world. I confused a local optimum for a global optimum. I was blindly arrogant. I would learn a few computing concepts and become pleased with myself. I touched computers early, I knew how to build sites, I could edit videos, I could make good-looking PPTs. It all looked versatile, but was any of it actually useful? No. Because aside from those things, I could no longer build even a basic sense of security for myself. Even so, I am still glad I got exposed to computing at all. At least I locked in my career direction early enough, and had enough spare time to continue figuring it out.

Wait, this is starting to sound too miserable. Why did I end up in the five-year vocational track? Because I was not good enough. Why did I choose computing there? Because this so-called "computer ability" was one of the very few things I had that stood out even a little. I only knew how to play with computers and mess around. What these five years have taught me is that standing still, or endlessly deconstructing things, or internally consuming yourself, or even spreading hidden anxiety to others, is completely useless. In the worst case, it becomes structural cynicism and can even drag other people down with it. That is extremely irresponsible.

The biggest lesson of these five years is that the first step to accomplishing anything is to start doing it. Instead of counting on other people, or on some so-called God, it is better to look at how much you can do right now.

Main Experience

My experience and awards are almost negligible, so I will just force myself to write a few items.

1. In coding, I rarely do old-school manual programming anymore, apart from occasionally hand-tuning some CSS. Roughly 98% of my work is done by Agents. I also keep wondering what my own future path is. I know that controlling the whole system is important, but the real question is how to build that control. I have discussed this with GPT before. Maybe my strengths are UI ability and integration ability. The more generous way to put it is that being able to get things built quickly, and still make them look decent, is not nothing.
2. I run a small Minecraft server (2018 -), and I am the owner. I have kept it going since my first year of middle school in 2018. A lot of the tiny social experience, management reflections, and technical progress I have gained came from this community carrying me forward.
3. Third prize in the final contention round of the 2025 World Vocational College Skills Competition. That was one concrete result from my junior-college period.