Just a little bit about me and my journy here
Hi Everybody! (Hi Dr. Nick!)
Welcome to my first blog post. Here’s just a little bit about myself. I graduated in 2016 from Northwestern with a bachelor’s degree in biology. Going into undergrad I hadn’t given what I wanted to do much thought and just thought I would go to med school like my parents had hoped. But I realized (perhaps a bit too late) that I wasn’t interested in medicine. As an undergrad, I had enjoyed the coding in my bioinformatics course and a couple of CS classes I decided to take as a result. I decided that maybe I could still salvage my biology major and get a Ph.D. in bioinformatics.
I got my first job as a research technologist at a research lab at Northwestern, with the hopes of working hard and applying to graduate school. What I soon realized was that I liked the coding aspect of bioinformatics much more than the biology portion of bioinformatics. Unfortunately for me, there was far more biology than I would have liked… g story short, I decided I shouldn’t try to make something I didn’t like work for myself and decided to get into software development
Here at OSU I have particularly enjoyed Cloud Application Development and Mobile Software Development. I’ve found Python to be enjoyable to code in, more so than any other language due to the ease of readability and syntax. I also hope to be able to use Flutter more in the future, especially on our project this quarter. I like that it is cross-platform. While it does seem like React Native is much more popular at the moment, I’ve heard from some that in React Native, styling can show up differently between iOS and Android, while many Flutter developers haven’t had that issue. So for fewer headaches, I hope Flutter can be easier in that regard.
I am excited about what the quarter holds. Since this is my last quarter at OSU, I can only hope that it is a good one!
