This past week was week 6. It feels like the turning point in 2020. I have felt ashamed of my country for the past 4 years, and I feel proud to be an American for the first time since 2016. We see record Covid-19 cases across the country, but at least we have a light at the end of the tunnel now. I hope our nation will start to be able to regain the unity we once had. I have a bit more faith in humanity, and I feel like I’m not just muddling along trying to make it day by day. I feel like there will once again be a positive example leading our country. This week has been crazy, I feel like I know far more about elections and American geography than ever before. Our entire nation has been waiting with baited breath for the drawn out result, but I feel like the wait was worth it. There is dancing in the streets, as our nation is smiling once again. I was born in Canada and immigrated to the U.S. to follow the opportunities provided, and for the past few years, all I’ve wanted to do is leave. I have regained some of my hope for the American people after this election. However, that’s all pretty irrelevant to my project.
Our group project is working steadily forward, but the obstacles we face have been unexpected. I expected to be working steadily and constantly on the code, yet so far what we have done for the most part is work through the bureaucracy of the government agency that we have to work with. I feel like I understand a little better why nothing ever gets done in the government. We’ve added so many extra steps before you can actually get to work that it just kills efficiency. I wonder what the solution to this problem is. Should the government be more modularized so groups have to focus on less? Is competence the issue? If we made these changes would security be lost? It feels like the government is one gigantic program file that is uncommented, entirely bloated, and using legacy systems from 200 years ago.
Thanks for reading my blog this week! May all of your dreams come true!
