{"id":59,"date":"2022-05-06T03:28:12","date_gmt":"2022-05-06T03:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/softwaredeveloperaspirations\/?p=59"},"modified":"2022-05-06T03:28:12","modified_gmt":"2022-05-06T03:28:12","slug":"already-at-the-midpoint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/softwaredeveloperaspirations\/2022\/05\/06\/already-at-the-midpoint\/","title":{"rendered":"Already at the midpoint?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Yesterday, I submitted the midpoint progress video and as I reflect on this quarter and my academic journey at OSU. I can only think to myself, <strong>Time Flies<\/strong>. In fact this was the main reason why I chose to go back to school in 2019. I knew 3 years would go by in the blink of an eye and I wanted to use that time wisely and productively. The past 3 years have been busy, stressful, exciting and most importantly <strong>productive<\/strong>. As school comes to an end in 6 weeks, I can&#8217;t help but wonder what I will achieve in the next 3 years. I&#8217;ve developed a great habit of planning all my days in advance and maximizing the productivity of each day. If I want to achieve my life time goal of running my own business, I must carry on this habit until death. I believe I&#8217;ve become more mature and disciplined since enrolling in this program and my time management skills have greatly improved. So I ask myself, what will I do with all the free time post-graduation? Grind leetcode and practice mock interviews until I get a good job? What comes after that? While the future remains uncertain, I look forward to it and I believe the strong habits that I&#8217;ve developed during school will guide me to the optimal direction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I submitted the midpoint progress video and as I reflect on this quarter and my academic journey at OSU. I can only think to myself, Time Flies. In fact this was the main reason why I chose to go back to school in 2019. I knew 3 years would go by in the blink [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12283,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/softwaredeveloperaspirations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/softwaredeveloperaspirations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/softwaredeveloperaspirations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/softwaredeveloperaspirations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12283"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/softwaredeveloperaspirations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/softwaredeveloperaspirations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/softwaredeveloperaspirations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions\/60"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/softwaredeveloperaspirations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/softwaredeveloperaspirations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/softwaredeveloperaspirations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}