You might be wondering what this blog is about. Well I’m not sure either, so I guess I’ll give you some insight into how I got here and what’s to come. I’ve always been a bit of a tinkerer, but never thought much of it. My father was an aerospace engineer and always stressed the importance of math in an engineering career. My sister and I naturally shied away from anything engineering-related because math was never our strongest subject. When college came around, I ended up studying Molecular Biology because I thought it was still very sciencey, but not too math heavy. In retrospect, I still had to take a fair amount of math, but hey, at least it wasn’t as bad as an engineering major, right?<\/p>\n
Fast forward to post college, I was working in a lab setting with cells, DNA, and viruses, unsure of what I wanted in life. I previously thought I would go medical school or graduate school, but after working in academia with PhDs and post-docs, I realized that more school was not what I wanted. One of the labs I worked for was a bioinformatics lab and they used a lot of programming tools like Python, SQL, and R to analyze biological data, such as DNA sequences, to find mutations of significance. This was my first exposure to programming where I really started to dabble with code. I wasn’t able to contribute much since there was so much I needed to learn, but this experience piqued my interest in the subject and showed me that maybe I could find a career outside of the lab. After turning down a coding bootcamp last minute, doing self-study, and even taking classes at my local community college, I finally decided to take the plunge and enroll at Oregon State University (OSU).<\/p>\n
Since then I have not looked back and have had the time of life despite all the late nights debugging code or trying to write my own shell implementation for a systems programming course. Along the way I’ve had 4 different jobs which might sound ridiculous considering it was over a 2 year span, but each one has helped me get the next, and somehow I ended up in a software engineering role. I hope that was helpful in getting to know where I’ve come from and maybe we can speculate as to where I’ll go next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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