{"id":10,"date":"2022-09-26T03:15:44","date_gmt":"2022-09-26T03:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/mcastillo\/?p=10"},"modified":"2022-09-26T03:22:17","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T03:22:17","slug":"blog-post-1-the-feels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/mcastillo\/2022\/09\/26\/blog-post-1-the-feels\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog Post #1: The Feels"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/5935\/files\/2022\/09\/IMG_1698-edited.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17\" width=\"650\" height=\"365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/5935\/files\/2022\/09\/IMG_1698-edited.jpg 1670w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/5935\/files\/2022\/09\/IMG_1698-edited-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/5935\/files\/2022\/09\/IMG_1698-edited-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/5935\/files\/2022\/09\/IMG_1698-edited-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/5935\/files\/2022\/09\/IMG_1698-edited-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><figcaption>This is Morty, my adorable, fluffy, little shadow<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">Time to begin the last term of this Computer Science degree.<br><br>Looking back on the past year and three quarters, it&#8217;s surreal how quickly it went by &#8211; but simultaneously feels like it took forever. <br><br>I attended a coding bootcamp in the fall of 2019. I moved from Osaka, Japan to Chicago, a city I had never even visited before, to attend a coding bootcamp for veterans. I was very fortunate to get a job at my current company as a software engineer within a month of completing the bootcamp. Two months later, the pandemic kicked off and I&#8217;ve been working remote ever since. <br><br>I knew from the time I decided to learn to code that I would eventually go back to school and get a CS degree. So, when I found myself cooped up in the house all the time, in a city where I didn&#8217;t really have an established circle of friends and an end to the pandemic nowhere in sight, I decided it would be the perfect time to go ahead and get started.<br><br>It&#8217;s been a difficult journey balancing work, school and my sanity but it&#8217;s already been incredibly beneficial. I already feel that I&#8217;m a much better, well-rounded engineer at work (with tons of room for improvement). It&#8217;s also been a huge confidence booster for life in general. It&#8217;s been nice to reaffirm that, with good work ethic and determination, I can accomplish pretty much anything.<br><br>For anyone that happens to read this, if your journey has been similar to mine, allow me to congratulate you on making it this far. If your journey hasn&#8217;t been similar to mine, allow me to congratulate you on making it this far.<br><br>I&#8217;m very excited to kick this term off. I know it&#8217;s going to be challenging but I just need to take it one thing at a time. Besides, the term ends the day before my birthday so I have something very specific to look forward to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time to begin the last term of this Computer Science degree. Looking back on the past year and three quarters, it&#8217;s surreal how quickly it went by &#8211; but simultaneously feels like it took forever. I attended a coding bootcamp in the fall of 2019. I moved from Osaka, Japan to Chicago, a city I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12691,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6,5],"class_list":["post-10","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-computer-science","tag-cs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/mcastillo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/mcastillo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/mcastillo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/mcastillo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12691"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/mcastillo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/mcastillo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/mcastillo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions\/18"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/mcastillo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/mcastillo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/mcastillo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}