Dear Bootcamp

8/9/2019 Dear Bootcamp

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I L I K E T O D A B B L E I N

S T U F F . T O P U T I T S I M P LY.

DE R BO OT C MP

to prove this, well

have to go back in

time (naturally)

T O N O T E :

- virtual mii version of myself

is notto scale.

- my favorite color is in fact

redcontrary to popular

belief (I wear bluea lot)

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or so I thoughtAs much as as much as I loved biology (and I stil l

do), I couldnt actual ly see myself getting a

bachelor s degree in biology.

To me, a bachelor s in biology would equate to 4years of drudgery in busy work where I would be

competing with a whole bunch of aspiring med

school students.

Also, I was starting to resent school in general(see next) even though I was doing pretty well

for most academic standards.

PASS .


4/10

M Y S T A N C E O N

F O R M A L E D U C AT I O N

Ever since high school, Ive been kind of a rebel when

it comes to formal education. I just dont feel the

current model is as effective as it could be or as it was

so I treated school as an unfortunate necessity that Id

try to finish ASAP by trying to fast forward through it(The anti-visual extremely wordy boring PowerPoint

lectures I had to always sit through didnt help the

situation)

.

I was more into teaching myself what I wanted to

know. And ultimately, thats my approach to

everything now.

also, crap,

student

debt!

MUST

AVOID.

I set my own standards and

aspired to exceed them myself.


5/10

SO THEN I FIGURED,

WELL, WHY DONT IJUST MAJOR IN

COMPUTERSCIENCE?

-me my junior year of high school

(turned out to be a major turning

point in my life)


6/10

ME

PROJECT

DATE CLIENT2011-PRESENT

SO I DECIDED TO LEARN ABOUT {CODE}THROUGH CODECADEMY, CODE SCHOOL, CODE COMBAT (TYPICAL)

C O D E S C H O O L C O D E C A D E M Y

A N D M A N Y M O R E A W E S O M E W E B S I T E S


7/10

I R E A L I Z E D A F T E R R O U G H LY A Y E A R O F V E N T U R I N G I N T O T H E

L A N D O F L I S P ( T H A T S A J O K E ) O N M Y O W N T H A T

) * {CODE }

I L I K E D F E E L I N G L I K E T H I S K I N D O F A D I G I T A L W I Z A R D T H ATC O U L D L I T E R A L LY C R E A T E S O M E T H I N G O U T O F T H I N A I R ( O R

W I T H A G O O D T E X T E D I T O R ) .

S O C S I N G E N E R A L T U R N E D I N T O S O M E T H I N G I W A N T E D T O

D O F O R T H E L O N G - T E R M , N O T J U S T T H I S S T E P P I N G S T O N E


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BUT LE RNING TO

CODE BY YOURSELF

C N BE LONELY

(AND REALLY INEFFICIENT)

I wanted a place that would teach mefaster than I could teach myself.

And school wasn't the option.

In comes bootcamps!


9/10

M Y E X P E R I E N C E W I T H C O D I N G B O O T C A M P S _ P T 1

my actual facialexpression when

my dad introducedme to the idea of

bootcamps

Y O W Z E R S S !

Its August 2012. My dad reads this article in the New York

Times (or HuffPost? I forget.) about coding bootcamps (App

Academyand Dev Bootcamp) and he talked about how they

might useful for me since I had already decided at that point I

would majoring in Computer Science. I decide Im not good

enough at programming to attend a bootcamp yet.

Its October 2013. After feeling more confident about my abilities with coding and getting

tired of being lonely in the learning process, I decide to finally go for it in the winter of 2013

and apply to several coding bootcamps for the summer of 2014. In the end, it didnt work

out because I ended up having to take yet another college course for me to graduate a year

earlier, but I learned a lot in the process!

S U M M E R 2 0 1 4 ,

H E R E I C O M E ?


10/10

M Y E X P E R I E N C E W I T H C O D I N G B O O T C A M P S _ P T 2

Its October 2014. Im going for it again, and this time,

no excuses. I decided to narrow my search down tomake sure the bootcamp had the following:

Excellent Reviews- had to go through Yelp, Quora,

CourseReport, SwitchUp, etc. (might be convenient if

theres one website for everything ,)

Excellent Hiring Rate- I may not be looking for a job

now, but I will in the near future and I want to be

prepared!

Full-stack and JavaScript focused(I never liked the

idea of learning Ruby).

By the end of the bootcamp, Id have the capability to

win Hackathons using the technologies Ive learned.

Dear Bootcamp

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