{"id":1,"date":"2021-09-29T20:04:28","date_gmt":"2021-09-29T20:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/changliblog\/?p=1"},"modified":"2021-09-29T22:28:29","modified_gmt":"2021-09-29T22:28:29","slug":"hello-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/changliblog\/2021\/09\/29\/hello-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 1: My way into the tech world"},"content":{"rendered":"

Welcome to my very first blog to record my capstone process. My name is Chang Li, living in bay area, california. I love snowboarding and just started to learn surfing.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Mammoth Mountain<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Path down to the tech<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

From philosophy student to MBA<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

I cannot believe I have gone so far from where I started. My steps to the tech industry are quite unusual. I started my first degree in philosophy school at Renmin University, China. At that time, went to a better university was quite important, which means better professors, better colleagues, better choices when graduate. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Through the study, I found myself not interested in academic research in the philosophy area nor became a journalist nor became a politician after graduation, these are popular choices in our school. Because I’m not a top student in my major, it was very hard to exchange to other majors in other schools. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I had all my coursework finished before my senior year, and went to Shanghai for a full-year internship in VOLVO car distribution corporation as a marketing specialist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With this experience, I successfully got an offer from the University of Missouri MBA program. I’m so happy about my decision. The progress in the MBA program was so challenging for me. A different knowledge base in a different language, full of adventure every day. This is the first time I got to touch a little bit of code when learning SQL database and SASS analytics. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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University of Missouri<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
From MBA to Computer science student<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

After graduation, I really want to get a job in the States. Because of international student limitations, I had to locate a job with a company can sponsor my H1B working visa. All my fellow international students planned to go on a graduation trip and then go back to China. I decided to drive through to California for more opportunities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was lucky enough to land a job as a product marketing specialist in an online education company, which was focusing on filling the gap between tech education and the tech industry to help students land a dream job in tech companies. This was the start of my final transition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this company, I met a lot of talented and enthusiastic programmers. When I knew they can write a program to track all their financial investments or simply get more recruiter emails, I was amazed and shook about how individuals could benefit from programming. I worked there for almost three years and found my career path will be quite narrow as an employee holding H1B. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why not take another step to the area that attacks me, this is not the first time I did so. After got all my thoughts together, I decided to quit my job and apply for the online CS program at Oregon State University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For this term<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

This is almost my last quarter for the program. I learned a lot. Hope I can land a dream job and dive deeper into the tech world. Our team will work on Dating App for Animal Adoption project. I have two cats adopted in two different humane societies. I always think it will be better if there is an easy access app or website for animal adoption. Good luck with everyone’s project! Have fun!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Welcome to my very first blog to record my capstone process. My name is Chang Li, living in bay area, california. I love snowboarding and just started to learn surfing. Path down to the tech From philosophy student to MBA I cannot believe I have gone so far from where I started. My steps to … <\/p>\n

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