{"id":6,"date":"2021-09-27T23:59:32","date_gmt":"2021-09-27T23:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/caruthers\/?p=6"},"modified":"2021-09-28T19:10:26","modified_gmt":"2021-09-28T19:10:26","slug":"beginnings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/caruthers\/2021\/09\/27\/beginnings\/","title":{"rendered":"Beginnings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Where will we be in ten years?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Person looking to the future
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If asked ten years ago, could we have predicted our current position or how far that we have come?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Person looking to the past
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We can’t always take the shortest path or even see all possibilities.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A maze of stairs that lead upwards
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I certainly wouldn’t have pictured myself contemplating an introductory blog post at the base of the Yaquina Head Lighthouse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Saki and Sean brave the moisture laden winds of Yaquina Head Outstanding Natural Area<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Nonetheless, we find ourselves here. In the final bits of OSU’s post-baccalaureate CS program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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OSU’s campus in Corvallis
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Students from various timezones virtually checking in at all hours of the day, myself included, making their way through the university’s e-campus curriculum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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CS student working on a difficult assignment
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Today we find ourselves in OSU’s capstone course. A team project based course meant to give us exposure to the software engineering design and delivery cycle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Photo by Octavian Dan<\/a> on Unsplash<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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We haven’t really set on which projects we are doing yet though. So before we move on to that, let’s introduce the cast of this blog. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Let’s begin with Milo! Adopted in January of this year, Milo has really captured a special piece of our heart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Milo’s fall themed photoshoot<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Next we will move on to my wonderful wife Saki!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Saki being generally cool<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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It’s me!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This blog’s author<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Occasionally I work here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A cool place to work<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Although I spend most of my time here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Photo by Charles Deluvio<\/a> on Unsplash<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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One of these came in the mail today. Currently in the process of setting it up in the hopes of dabbling in some VR development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Oculus Quest 2<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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If you’ve made it this far, thank you. Take a break, sip some coffee (unless you don’t do that sort of thing) and enjoy the rest of your day. This post is coming to an end, but we’ll be back next week with more news and perhaps some further info on the projects that we will be working on this term!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Photo by Hanny Naibaho<\/a> on Unsplash<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Where will we be in ten years? If asked ten years ago, could we have predicted our current position or how far that we have come? We can’t always take the shortest path or even see all possibilities.  I certainly wouldn’t have pictured myself contemplating an introductory blog post at the base of the Yaquina… Continue reading Beginnings<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11575,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/caruthers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/caruthers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/caruthers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/caruthers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11575"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/caruthers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/caruthers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/caruthers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions\/47"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/caruthers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/caruthers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/caruthers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}