I’ve experienced burnout several times throughout my life. Each time I know that I am at a transition period where one stage of my life is ending and another is beginning I have a noticeable drop in motivation. Senioritis as some call it. It happened when I graduated high school, then college (for the first…

As someone who is doing a career change, 10+ years after graduating from college for the first time I have had a much different experience than I was expecting. College and learning have changed drastically since I first went. An all online BS in CS did not exist then (at least not that I am…

I’ve recently accepted a position with a large company that offers a training development program for my first job after graduation. This will be my first job as a software developer and I am very excited to start it. There are a few reasons that I chose to accept this offer over other opportunities. The…

I spent the last 3 to 4 months job searching on top of all of my other responsibilities such as school, family and even squeezing in a few of my hobbies from time to time. Since I had a previous career as a project manager I’ve had a lot of experience preparing and interviewing for…

We recently got assigned to our capstone teams and I am happy to say that I was assigned to my project of choice. It will be a stock market algorithm/analysis program used to try and improve the rate of return from our coach’s algorithm. The project sponsor is someone from outside of OSU who has…

Hey Everyone! This is my first blog as well as my first blog post! I’m excited to start the capstone project and class as well as a couple of electives to finish out the program here at OSU.  I’ve really enjoyed most of my classes and am excited to start a new career as a…