{"id":4,"date":"2022-01-07T01:36:36","date_gmt":"2022-01-07T01:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/namki\/?p=4"},"modified":"2022-01-07T01:36:36","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T01:36:36","slug":"how-did-i-get-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/namki\/2022\/01\/07\/how-did-i-get-here\/","title":{"rendered":"How Did I Get Here?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Just a little bit about me and my journy here<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Hi Everybody! (Hi Dr. Nick!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Welcome to my first blog post. Here&#8217;s just a little bit about myself. I graduated in 2016 from Northwestern with a bachelor&#8217;s degree in biology. Going into undergrad I hadn&#8217;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&#8217;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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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&#8230;  g story short, I decided I shouldn&#8217;t try to make something I didn&#8217;t like work for myself and decided to get into software development <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here at OSU I have particularly enjoyed Cloud Application Development and Mobile Software Development. I&#8217;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&#8217;ve heard from some that in React Native, styling can show up differently between iOS and Android, while many Flutter developers haven&#8217;t had that issue. So for fewer headaches, I hope Flutter can be easier in that regard. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a little bit about me and my journy here Hi Everybody! (Hi Dr. Nick!) Welcome to my first blog post. Here&#8217;s just a little bit about myself. I graduated in 2016 from Northwestern with a bachelor&#8217;s degree in biology. Going into undergrad I hadn&#8217;t given what I wanted to do much thought and just &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/namki\/2022\/01\/07\/how-did-i-get-here\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How Did I Get Here?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12028,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/namki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/namki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/namki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/namki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12028"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/namki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/namki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/namki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions\/6"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/namki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/namki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/namki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}