From A Child to Web Developer When I was little I was a very imaginative ball of energy. I was always claiming to be a Power Ranger or a ninja. I would run around kicking stuff and rolling around “fighting” bad guys. As I grew older, I was very interested in golf (which I still am). My grandparents use to call me a “Mini Tiger Woods”. I was a little guy swinging clubs like a champ. I was even in the Toyota Tournament one year with my dad and his friends. I played awful that day! In my teen years, I loved football and I was determined to be the best football player I could be. So I practiced on and off the field things like passing, catching, kicking and other football related tactics. However, that plan hit a brick wall real quick, as I went into high school …show more content…
To this day I still wish I could play football. On a positive note, I found out in my senior year of high school that computers and graphic design sparked my interest. I dabbled in Photoshop. I started off by just editing pictures and doing other little projects. This highly benefited me since I would be going in a related major going into college. When I graduated, I waited a year to go to college because I had to save up money to pay for tuition. So after a year of working at Chick-fil-A, I finally had enough money to put myself through college. I am currently majoring in Web Development. It has been a stressful, but an amazing experience. I have one more semester left and I’ll be able to start my career. I’m ready to begin my future, making money, and do what I love. The web development field is a booming career with
I remember a time in my life when I would always play with little children. At that point, at the age of six or seven, I decided to become a pediatrician or a kindergarten teacher. When I started high school, I started feeling stressed out because of the pressure that I was doing to myself to reach my goal of becoming a pediatrician. I could hardly focus on the topic we would have during class because I would be thinking about my future as a pediatrician. With the help of my friends, they helped me overcome the obstacles that I had. The more I thought about what profession I wanted to be, I thought about how much I loved working and dealing with computers. My friends and cousins told me that I should and can be what ever I wanted, and that helped me decide to major in computer engineering at San Jose State University. So you see when it comes down to life, dreams are not the only thing that can keep men going, friendships, pets and companionships can do the same.
Growing up in the suburbs of a small township in Morris County, I never really felt like I stood out among my peers. I normally would just blend in, always just a face in the crowd. And for about half of my childhood that was the story. I attempted to go out for the town’s recreational peewee soccer team as a five year old, because my mother believed that I was some super soccer star in the making. And being the incredibly unathletic, roly poly, chicken nugget shaped, child I was, I ended up getting nailed flat in the forehead with the soccer ball and almost had a concussion. And from that moment in my life, I was firm in my belief that sports would not be my forte. However, when I about six I could not pronounce music, so I instead said “moogoo”, and
I was first introduced to the real world CS and programming languages in Grade 9. I learned Java for 4 years and watching my code execute correctly was always delightful. And that is when I decided that I wanted to pursue CS. At UCI, I learned Python in my first year and currently I am learning C++. Some assignments have really blown me away as I was able to connect the dots between different concepts and produce results. To get exposed to CS, I job shadowed a Web Developer and a Director of Operation. To gain new skills, I did a research project in areas of crowdsourcing where I learned Django and applied my knowledge in creating a website with other teammates using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. I worked on IoT and Augmented Reality as a summer intern. I am currently working on Augmented Reality as an intern, this quarter. I believe that learning and applying are different things and unless you are able to develop or progress by applying your knowledge you won’t know if you have indeed trodden the path of mastering it. I am grateful to have several opportunities to help me grow and advance in CS.
Along with creating steps which will lead me towards my ultimate career goal, the creation of a specific five-year plan for myself was key. In five years I will be in school, hopefully in my final year of my Masters degree; a plan which seems so simple to achieve, however requires an extensive amount of hard work and dedication. Being so far in my academic career already, I will hopefully have worked in summer internships or been employed during the year by a speech-language pathologist or various health institutions to gain experience in the profession and potentially become full time employed by one of these institutions post-graduation. Within the five years, I will have as well established networks and built relationships with multiple
The stereotypical version of the normal life of a teenager proceeding to college would include high academic standards met throughout their high school career and outstanding outside testing scores resulting in automatic entry into the institution of their choice. Many of these individuals have the support of their accomplished family members in the form of financial support. There are those who have not had the luxuries of any easy upbringing but forced to decide between a life with a college degree or full-time employment. For myself I want to have it all and to achieve that I have taken on both.
This career option as an assessment employer for the child protective services could possibly be a long-term career option. Although, I do not believe I would want this as my long-term career goal. Choosing to work directly out of college would also allow myself to gain experience within the field which would improve the possibility of getting a better job or getting into graduate school. If I was hired and I did accept the position within five years my goal would be to continue working while attending school to further mu education. I would continue to work to gain more experience as well as helping me get through school by paying off my tuition. I would not leave this job until I graduate and had another job lined up.
Growing up for me some would say it was rather difficult and in some ways I would agree. There have been a lot of rough times that I have been through. This has and will affect my life for the rest of my life. The leading up to adoption, adoption and after adoption are the reasons my life were difficult.
As I played more and more video games my love for them grew immensely. In school I kept wondering what I was going to major in after high school. So as time went on I finally decided to sit down and think, I told myself that I wanted to do something that would make me happy. I don’t want to be stuck at some white collar office desk job or perform back breaking labor for a small amount of money. So I’ve decided after high
But for computer science i didn't want to sit at a desk all day while as an artist I did want to ruin having it as a hobby. At the time I was thinking really in depth about what I wanted to do I was also taking Graphic Screen Printing wish I fell in love with right away. I loved learning about typography and the math behind it. Usually math is really annoying to me
By the time I graduated, I see myself working in one of the big animation or gaming com...
In summary, throughout my life many career choices have crossed my mind. I have tried being a stay-at-home mom and a hospital employee. I am working on trying computers. The path I chose in computers is yet to be decided but the opportunities are vast. My current path leaves me many opportunities in healthcare and computers but the possibilities do not stop there. With further education I could still do anything.
When I first went off to college I had no idea what I wanted to major in, all I knew was that I wasn’t interested in any majors I was familiar with. I decided to major in psychology, what’s more interesting than getting to know the human mind, apparently I wasn’t interested at all and my grades show for it. It was only when I joined a modeling troupe at Winston Salem State University by the name of Epiphany that I realized that I’m in love with fashion. I loved styling the outfits I wore for the “fashion shows” and the outfits I wore on campus that helped me get nominated for best dressed freshman on campus. After being nominated I decided to look for ways to make fashion my career.
Threw out my school career I’ve never knew exactly what I wanted to do when I grew up and threw the out the years my ideas of what will make me happy has changed as well. All I knew from a young age was that I wanted to go to college, get a great job, and most importantly to be happy. International millionaire with 3 pet tiger was the dreams of a young elementary school student. This dream belonged to me when I was in the second grade. The third day of school my teacher wanted to get to know her student by asking them questions about themselves.
Prior to that, I had a fairly normal educational career. I did well through my high school and worked hard to get undergraduate admission in the field of my interest in one of the most reputed engineering colleges in my state, SNIST, JNT University. It was pure joy to learn how the Boolean logic makes computers work. I enjoyed studying computer architecture and particularly enjoyed studying about microprocessors. I also liked programming in Java. I used to spend hours in the lab, trying out all the programs I could write for fictitious problems.
Most of my life has been focused on my career. I never really thought about my life outside of high school until my junior year. It was not until this year that I realized all the things that were involved with my career interests. Although I am very committed to my career choices. I have chosen to major in elementary education and minor in photography.