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Interview Hell
As I’ve discussed in a previous blog post, the timing of when I started this program and how fast I wanted to complete it really put me in a time crunch when it came to getting an internship. Having recently graduated with my first degree in engineering, I knew how vital it was to get…
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Death by PATH
In my previous blog post, I briefly touched on the fact that since I took CS 340 (Introduction to Databases) last quarter, I was probably the best equipped to handle the database aspects of my team’s capstone project. My other two team member’s last worked on databases almost a year ago. I didn’t mind this…
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Full Steam Ahead!
Upon reading the introduction to this course as well as the syllabus, I was overcome with a mix of excitement and nervousness. Excitement because this would be the culmination of all I’ve learned over the last one and a half years. I would be able to build something real and larger than anything I’ve built…
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Pivoting Careers
The capstone project has yet to really take off. So far we’ve only chosen teams/project ideas and set our team standards, but tomorrow I am finally meeting with my team face-to-face (well, via Zoom at least). We will discuss our project plan, and we’ll finally start setting concrete details for the project. That being said,…
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K(evin) P(eralta)’s C(apstone) P(roject) Journey Begins
Or “KP’s CP Journey” for short. I honestly never thought I’d be here right now. And I mean that in many ways. Heartwarmingly, I’m a child of immigrants and the first in my family to attend college. Never did I think I’d have one college degree, let alone be on the verge of receiving my…