{"id":4,"date":"2023-10-01T21:41:25","date_gmt":"2023-10-01T21:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/osbornecapstoneblog\/?p=4"},"modified":"2023-10-01T21:41:25","modified_gmt":"2023-10-01T21:41:25","slug":"end-of-the-beginning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/osbornecapstoneblog\/2023\/10\/01\/end-of-the-beginning\/","title":{"rendered":"End of the beginning"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Guess what? It&#8217;s capstone project time! It&#8217;s definitely strange to think that I&#8217;m starting my very last quarter of my computer science degree. I still feel like I just began this journey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s been quite a program. During the last 2 years, our four kids didn&#8217;t stop growing and needing their parents, the bills didn&#8217;t stop coming in, and my employer didn&#8217;t pay me to not work. It has been both an exhausting and rewarding time as I&#8217;ve not only learned so many new skills, but also learned a great deal about managing and balancing life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I couldn&#8217;t been more excited about this capstone project. I had a difficult time narrowing down my choices to the six choices I was allowed from the list of over a dozen projects I wanted to work on. In the end, I&#8217;m hoping to land on a team building out an adventure van configurator or a research project around developing using AI tools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> As I embark on this capstone journey I&#8217;ll be sharing updates, hurdles, victories, and probably a few &#8220;why-didn&#8217;t-I-think-of-that&#8221; moments on this blog. So stay tuned!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s to coding, caffeine, and hopefully an amazing project!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guess what? It&#8217;s capstone project time! It&#8217;s definitely strange to think that I&#8217;m starting my very last quarter of my computer science degree. I still feel like I just began this journey. It&#8217;s been quite a program. During the last 2 years, our four kids didn&#8217;t stop growing and needing their parents, the bills didn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13804,"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\/osbornecapstoneblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/osbornecapstoneblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/osbornecapstoneblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/osbornecapstoneblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13804"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/osbornecapstoneblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/osbornecapstoneblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/osbornecapstoneblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions\/6"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/osbornecapstoneblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/osbornecapstoneblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/osbornecapstoneblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}