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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)
B U T I
D O N T C #
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8/9/2019 Dear Bootcamp
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8/9/2019 Dear Bootcamp
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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 .
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8/9/2019 Dear Bootcamp
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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.
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8/9/2019 Dear Bootcamp
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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)
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8/9/2019 Dear Bootcamp
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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
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8/9/2019 Dear Bootcamp
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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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8/9/2019 Dear Bootcamp
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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!
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8/9/2019 Dear Bootcamp
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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 ?
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8/9/2019 Dear Bootcamp
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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.