{"id":7,"date":"2024-11-14T23:50:33","date_gmt":"2024-11-14T23:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/impostersyndromecoding\/?p=7"},"modified":"2024-11-14T23:50:33","modified_gmt":"2024-11-14T23:50:33","slug":"capstone-project-and-other-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/impostersyndromecoding\/2024\/11\/14\/capstone-project-and-other-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"Capstone Project and other updates"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hello!<br>Glad to have you back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Life&#8217;s been a rollercoaster lately.<br>I&#8217;ve been learning a lot by putting work into projects (including the Capstone), but I&#8217;m losing motivation because of the rejections in internship applications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I don&#8217;t feel as much of an imposter with my coding now!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Part of being an imposter meant not understanding what people were talking about and feeling as though I knew too little about any given subject.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m currently taking OS1, Programming Fundamentals, Cloud Computing, and the Capstone Project Class 1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s a lot of learning and I&#8217;m loving it. Studying feels like traversing through the Amazon, but the payoff is that I am changed as a result.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve been coding in Raku, Ruby, Rust, and C. I used to only code in Python and JavaScript (MERN Fullstack) but am learning new things due to the classes I am taking and I&#8217;m pushing myself to be better than I was. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Using Flask, Raku, and Ruby has been a humbling experience.<br>I still feel like an imposter sometimes, but I&#8217;m rolling with the punches a bit more.<br>No matter how much I learn, there will always be more to learn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It will always be an upward climb!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Whenever I&#8217;m stressed, I go for a quiet walk in the park and spend some time reading &#8220;The Subtle Art of not giving a F***&#8221;. <br>I highly recommend this book for gaining clarity and perspective on who you wish to be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Good luck, friend!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I will see you again in my next post on Imposter Coding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thank you for reading!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you enjoyed reading this, consider connecting with me:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/sahil-gaikwad-426b6228b\/\">LinkedIn<\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/gaikwads@oregonstate.edu\">Email<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello!Glad to have you back. Life&#8217;s been a rollercoaster lately.I&#8217;ve been learning a lot by putting work into projects (including the Capstone), but I&#8217;m losing motivation because of the rejections in internship applications. I don&#8217;t feel as much of an imposter with my coding now! Part of being an imposter meant not understanding what people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14503,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/impostersyndromecoding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/impostersyndromecoding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/impostersyndromecoding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/impostersyndromecoding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14503"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/impostersyndromecoding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/impostersyndromecoding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/impostersyndromecoding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions\/8"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/impostersyndromecoding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/impostersyndromecoding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/impostersyndromecoding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}