Hello All!<\/p>\n
My name is Clint and this is my first ever blog! This blog will mainly focus around my experience as a Computer Science student at Oregon State University and what is has been like dipping my toes into the world of technology.<\/p>\n
I think an appropriate way to kick off this blog would be to give a little background on how I found myself back in school for a second Bachelor’s degree. I earned my first degree in Psychology\/Neuroscience from the University of Colorado. I loved studying psychology, I really loved neuroscience, but I quickly learned after graduation that a career in counseling is not where I belong.<\/p>\n
I spent a good couple years feeling pretty lost as to the direction I wanted to take my life. In that time, I had tried to get into flight school to become a helicopter pilot, considered joining the Air Force, spent a year in New Zealand cycling and hopping from farm to farm for work. The more time that passed by, the more anxious I become about my future.<\/p>\n
My introduction to computers, computer networks, security, programming, all that good stuff, hit me by surprise. I had always loved technology, but a career in this sort of field was never on my radar. I was out with one of my closest friends playing a little disk golf when he told me about a big decision he was thinking of making. His idea was to leave the I.T. company that he had been working for and to start his own I.T. consulting business.<\/p>\n
Over the next year this idea became reality. It was during this time that I, for the first time, started to wonder about computers and computer networks. How am I able to just type a word into a search engine and I’m suddenly looking at pictures of puppies? How am I able to send a photo of me and my cow from some farm in New Zealand to my Mom’s phone back in the United States? I would help out my friend where I could and in exchange he would teach me some of what he knew about computer networks and security.<\/p>\n
It was from there that I decided to try my hand at programming. With Visual Studio Code download and a Python tutorial purchased, it was off to the races…<\/p>\n
Until next time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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