In your head, it's all rainbows and elegant algorithms. You're basically the next Linus Torvalds, crafting revolutionary code that will change humanity forever. Then reality hits—semicolons missing, undefined variables everywhere, and that one bracket you can't find for 45 minutes. The dream of clean, beautiful code crumbles into a nightmare of Stack Overflow searches and desperate console.log statements. Programming: where expectations and reality have never met and never will.