Have you ever sat down at your desk with a new Word document open, the cursor blinking, waiting for your input, but the only thing you can do is stare out of your window at the crisp fall morning? Or bring up your browser and scroll through social media? Or pull up your phone and open up your email (once again)? We have all experienced the feelings of indecisiveness, anxiety at starting something new, or a block (writers or otherwise). Now think of those feelings but at a grand scale. That was my 20’s. Indecisive, anxious (and afraid to fail) when starting something new, and many false starts.
At age 30, I had not yet started a stable career and was feeling defeated. That was when I came across Oregon State University’s postbaccalaureate Computer Science program. I applied immediately and vowed to start over at age 30 and phase one was to complete this program. Well, I have one term left. This is the ending of the beginning!
In this last term, I am taking the Online Capstone course and will be working with a friend that I made through this program! I am excited to work on the Malware Analysis project and hope to gain new insight into the realm of cybersecurity and malware detection.
My journey into Computer Science and programming in general has been amazing. There is a strange comfort in knowing that the program will do exactly what you have coded it to do (intentional or not). Programming brings stability and order to a world that is chaotic and ever-changing.
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