Before I entered this program I was actually in a master’s program for business analytics. At the time, I had school at night and worked a warehouse job in the early morning so my schedule was to wake up at 4:30am and go to work, get home at noon and sleep for 2 hours and… Continue reading Know Your Limits
Keep Track of Student Accounts
One of the biggest perks of being a student is the student discounts. BUT with great privilege comes great responsibility. In the middle of last year I had it in my mind that I wanted to explore what other career options were open to me besides “Software Developer”, and that’s where I stumbled upon the… Continue reading Keep Track of Student Accounts
Don’t Delay Graduation in Hopes of Securing an Internship
One lesson I learned the hard way after I got my first bachelor’s degree was that I needed to have experience to get my first job–which makes no sense how that can even happen, except getting it through an internship. I also learned that it is imperative that you secure your job within a year… Continue reading Don’t Delay Graduation in Hopes of Securing an Internship
If you want to move forward, don’t look back.
When I first entered this program I had this grand idea where I would marry my expertise from my first degree (real estate/finance) with the post-bacc CS degree. I wanted to showcase all my years of experience as an analyst so badly on my resume that I sacrificed at least a quarter of the “one-page… Continue reading If you want to move forward, don’t look back.
Be Comfortable with the Unknown
This week we were given the code of our predecessors who used a simpler model compared to the one we are being tasked with implementing (however, we haven’t been given the code for THAT one yet). During the meeting and afterwards, most of the technical jargon our sponsor was flinging at us flew right over… Continue reading Be Comfortable with the Unknown
Don’t Be Afraid of Signing NDAS
This week we had to get into contact with our company project sponsors if we had been selected for groups that had them. My project in particular required students to sign NDAs, or Non-Disclosure Agreements. When I had been deciding on what project to do for my capstone, I was conflicted in choosing projects that… Continue reading Don’t Be Afraid of Signing NDAS
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Picking a project when you don’t want to pick anything A common line people in the r/CS subreddits say to others looking at getting into software development is “You have to love to code–eat, sleep, and breathe that s***!” But how can you love it if you are struggling with imposter syndrome, seeing all these… Continue reading Post #1