{"id":1,"date":"2022-09-22T02:31:48","date_gmt":"2022-09-22T02:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/zierkbbblog\/?p=1"},"modified":"2022-09-26T01:34:21","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T01:34:21","slug":"intro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/zierkbbblog\/2022\/09\/22\/intro\/","title":{"rendered":"Introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Computers have been a large part of my life for as long as I can remember. Growing up I spent many late nights playing video games with friends and when I wasn&#8217;t gaming, I was often tinkering with the computer&#8217;s hardware. Despite this, I pursued a degree in Petroleum Engineering and kicked off my career in the oil and gas sector. My wife and I packed up, moved to Texas, and began acclimating to West Texas&#8217;s HOT summer days (and haboobs).<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/2\/21\/Haboob_in_Big_Spring%2C_TX.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"491\" height=\"368\" \/><figcaption>A Haboob in Big Springs, Texas (Source: Wikipedia)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>We enjoyed our time in Texas but once kids came along, we decided we needed to be closer to family. That was the catalyst I needed to begin my career transition and the decision was made to chase my long-time passion by enrolling in Oregon State&#8217;s Computer Science post-bacc program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fast forward two years and my time at Oregon State draws to a close with the Capstone course and Programming Language Fundamentals. It is hard to believe that two years have passed but looking back, I have made more progress than I would have thought possible. I have successfully made the career transition, I have over a year of real-world software engineering experience, and will begin my Master&#8217;s in Computer Science at Georgia Tech in the Spring of 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Go Beavs!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Computers have been a large part of my life for as long as I can remember. Growing up I spent many late nights playing video games with friends and when I wasn&#8217;t gaming, I was often tinkering with the computer&#8217;s hardware. Despite this, I pursued a degree in Petroleum Engineering and kicked off my career [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12707,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/zierkbbblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/zierkbbblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/zierkbbblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/zierkbbblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12707"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/zierkbbblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/zierkbbblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/zierkbbblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/6"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/zierkbbblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/zierkbbblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/zierkbbblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}