I am half way through my final quarter and it hasn’t hit me yet that I will be graduating in about a month! Another thing I still can’t believe is that I was able to secure a job before I graduated. I can finally call myself a SWE! I start my job in Jan. Remote work out of Seattle. This leaves me a month of “free time” in which I do plan on refreshing myself with the tech stack I used during my internship that led to the job offer.
Switching gears to my classes, I am fortunate that CS381 releases their modules a few weeks ahead. I am currently on week 8 of the modules. This helps me focus more time to working on my capstone project which is seeing an uptick in the amount of work each week. My capstone project is very Docker heavy and luckily I do have some experience working with it. However, what does take time is getting myself familiar with their codebase. At this point in time, I feel that I have an understanding of how the codebase’s individual parts work, but still need to figure out how to connect them all together.
My teammates have been great and very communicative. We have all made progress, albeit slowly, on the parts of our project (frontend/backend) that we are responsible for. On top of that, we also started to meet an extra 2 days/week (3 total) as sort of a checkup on where we are at or if any of us need help. These are all good signs in completing a project!
