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Well, since it’s an assignment at the end of the day, it can not be entirely about nothing. Perhaps, similar to Jerry’s and George’s idea, I will tell you a little bit about my journey to a computer science degree. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The idea of studying CS wasn’t foreign to me. When I was in high school in Russia, I was part of the school’s informatics team and participated in school competitions(olympiads). Although I was far away from the typical high schooler description that’s interested in computer science from Reddit or the description of a typical Russian hacker for that matter.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Soon after moving to the US, I discovered my passion for art, and at the time, it was a natural choice for me to go study interior design and architecture. In my mind, it was a perfect combination of art and science.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n As time went on, I graduated and moved to NYC to pursue an interior design career. That’s when I realized the importance of technology in the architecture and design field and in what areas it was lacking. <\/p>\n\n\n\n I started exploring some of the tools like scripting to help improve my company’s daily workflow, but the more I worked with the technology the more I became interested in learning about it and about computer science in general. As I continued the research of the subject matter, I came across computation design that combines topics of CS and architecture. However, it was a new field that was available at a few universities, and it\u00a0felt too specialized.\u00a0 Sure, I could have learned how to write programs to generate facade options or analyze building wind loads or do energy analysis, but what I was really interested in was how technology can affect everyday architects and designers.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n With that goal in mind, I pivoted into looking at computer science degrees and that’s when I discovered OSU.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n Through my time at OSU I continued to work as an interior designer and ironically enough the architectural project that I was working on while studying CS was a design of 3 floors for Jane Street Capital, one of the New York trading firms known for their innovative technology. Furthermore, the new grad job that I will start in August of this year is in the same company as one of my first interior design projects I worked on as an intern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Call it the universe, or do we live in a matrix?!..\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n Well, I will stick with Seinfeld references for this post, and maybe cover matrices in the next one!\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n “You know, I used to think that the universe is a random, chaotic, sequence of meaningless events, but I see now that there is reason and purpose to all things.”<\/em><\/p>\nJerry Seinfeld<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As a new semester starts, here comes the first post for the CS467 Capstone project. As an artist stares at a blank canvas, I am staring at my empty blog thinking about the topic of this post, and all I can think of is the infamous conversation between George and Jerry Seinfeld\u00a0 Well, since it’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13130,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/maxbelyaev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/maxbelyaev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/maxbelyaev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/maxbelyaev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13130"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/maxbelyaev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/maxbelyaev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/maxbelyaev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions\/10"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/maxbelyaev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/maxbelyaev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/maxbelyaev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/y.yarn.co\/a58e2f2b-62db-4b17-9999-d30bc0395474_text.gif\")
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