When I was younger I really liked fixing things and building things, but never had much interest in school. Without much guidance probably wouldn’t have gone to collage and instead would have become an auto mechanic or something. I ended up picking mechanical engineering as my first major. At that point I thought I really didn’t like computers because of all the head ache I would encounter trying to install things and having them not work. I went down the mechanical engineering path for a while and discovered that I really liked making things that could move. I got into robotics and found that this really involved a lot of programming if you wanted to make things interesting. As I grew to like programming more I decided I should go back and get a computer science degree. I liked that OSU offered a post bacc and it was online, so I ended up signing up for the program. At the time I was working at Boeing as a Mechanical Engineer which was ok, but I knew I could make more money in software. I hadn’t planned on switching companies until I was close to done with the degree, but early on in the degree Boeing started asking me to help in the factor on some third shifts. Every night I would walk in telling myself I wasn’t being paid enough to do put up with this, so I studied Leetcode really hard and switched to a programming job in Boeing after finishing 162. I knew that job was just a stepping stone as Boeing isn’t really a software company, so I kept applying and was able to get a Job at Microsoft after finishing Data Structures. I have been working there for 2.5 years now and really enjoy it. I hope to keep growing my skills after this program and hopefully one day I will be able to be a technical lead.