Hello World!

Welcome to my blog. I am Alex Lo and I’m 28 years old currently residing in Oakland, California. I’m not going to lie; I only started this blog because it was required for CS 467, but who knows, I might just end up enjoying blogging. In this post I’m going to tell you why I’m pursuing a CS degree at OSU and some of my hobbies/interest outside of CS.

I initially graduated from the University of California Davis in 2015 with a degree in Food Science. I spent the next couple of years doing Quality Assurance in the food industry. It was a decent career choice for a while but every time I ask myself the question if I can see myself doing this for the next 20 or so years, I always answered no. That was a big red flag to me.

I contemplated different career choices for a while but it always seemed like computer science is what I wanted to do. At an early age, I was interested in computers and learning about the different parts of the computer what each of them do. When I was a freshman at college, I wanted to declare computer science as my major but ultimately decided to do food science instead as I thought I probably wasn’t smart enough to do computer science. This got me thinking, If I don’t try to pursue computer science now while I’m still relatively young, I might regret it for the rest of my life and keep pondering What If…. And that’s how I ended up attending OSU.

Outside of CS, my interests include watching movies/TV, playing video games, watching sports, hiking, and eating delicious food. I recently got into collecting basketball cards within the last year and was so caught up in the hobby that I was watching sports card videos on YouTube. I also just got back into playing Pokémon Go again and would consider myself addicted to catching them all.

Thanks for reading and stay tuned for my other blog posts.