About Me

If you told me in 2019 I'd still be in school in 2026, I would've laughed. Then cried, probably.

I started computer science on a scholarship – full ride, dreams intact. Then COVID hit, the scholarship got terminated, and my calendar fell apart. I deferred. Three years total, on and off, scraping together fees through friends, family, and strangers who believed in me more than I believed in myself some days.

I chose CS partly because it was trending, partly because the salary projections looked good. But the real hook? I was obsessed with FIFA. I wanted to understand the technology I was consuming, not just button-mash through it. That curiosity stuck.

Third year changed things. I stopped waiting for the curriculum to catch up and started building – small projects at first, messy ones, stuff that barely worked. Now I'm working on my final project: a drug authentication mobile app that lets stakeholders verify authenticity and track supply chain. It's the hardest thing I've built. It might also be the most useful.

I've applied to junior software roles. Most didn't reply. A few ghosted me after round one. But I went to our career fair this year, talked to actual humans at actual companies, and learned something no classroom taught me: how to translate my skills into a resume that gets read. I'm still learning that part.

Here's what I know: CS education teaches you theory. It doesn't teach you how to get hired, how to network, how to keep going when your inbox is silent. So I'm making myself visible on LinkedIn. I'm documenting what I learn so the next person has a map. I'm fighting imposter syndrome in real time – some days I win, some days it wins.

I don't know exactly where I'll land. But I'm not stopping. And if you're here – deferring, applying, building in the dark – neither are you.

Let's figure this out together.