{"id":3,"date":"2024-10-01T05:13:31","date_gmt":"2024-10-01T05:13:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/minisblog\/?p=3"},"modified":"2024-10-01T05:31:56","modified_gmt":"2024-10-01T05:31:56","slug":"trying-everything-move-to-that-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/minisblog\/2024\/10\/01\/trying-everything-move-to-that-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Trying Everything: Move to that country!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hola a todos! This is Michelle, and I&#8217;m from Colombia. I live in Lake Elsinore, California. I&#8217;m glad I have the chance to talk about what got me into software because it was all a mix of trying and failing at everything I thought I was good at, and I ended up doing something I thought I couldn&#8217;t do but discovered I was capable of.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This might not be typical because most people in the industry are obsessed with technology and computers, but I wasn&#8217;t. I was passionate about painting, dancing, and hiking with my dad on the weekends. He always said to me, &#8220;Try everything you can until you find something that will bring you happiness,&#8221; so I did. I tried a lot of different things, but I never truly enjoyed any of them until I came to America and started taking coding classes to fulfill my science prerequisites. I would rather take C++ than any biology class!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I switched my degree from history to computer science, and now I&#8217;m excited to say that I would like to be a mobile engineer and build apps that help others. One app I would love to work on is a LiDAR to 3D Sound App for the Visually Impaired because it has a social aspect, would be a mobile app, and includes principles of GIS, such as 3D mapping of surfaces. It seems very challenging, but I think it&#8217;s a fantastic idea that checks all the boxes for something I would feel passionate about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I enjoy software engineering, and what better way to use my skills than to build something that improves people&#8217;s lives? I know this might sound naive, but my optimistic view of the world led me to this new country, and it continues to guide me to places where I feel proud to work and be. So, that\u2019s a little bit about me. How about you? Do you know what you\u2019re passionate about and what skills you could use to explore that?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1742\" height=\"1161\" src=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/8205\/files\/2024\/10\/hope.avif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hola a todos! This is Michelle, and I&#8217;m from Colombia. I live in Lake Elsinore, California. I&#8217;m glad I have the chance to talk about what got me into software because it was all a mix of trying and failing at everything I thought I was good at, and I ended up doing something I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14593,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/minisblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/minisblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/minisblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/minisblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14593"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/minisblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/minisblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/minisblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3\/revisions\/7"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/minisblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/minisblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/minisblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}