Tomorrow, I walk into Hack Reactor as a senior. This is just plain madness.
Just 6 weeks (really 8 with breaks), I was just starting my journey into the land of Javascript.
Now me and my cohort will be considered seniors. We have the experience to actually talk to and advise others at this point, and we will need to.
This is amazing.
Impostor Syndrome is the idea that a person can’t understand or believe that they are good enough or qualified enough at a given task. Basically, they believe that they are “impostors” and are just fooling everyone through blind luck and timing.
For me this manifests as my current confidence level with coding. Computer programming is unique in that you don’t know a program you wrote works until it works.
Yes, you can measure and test things along the way, but you don’t know until you run the program and it does what you expect. In addition to this, there are just so many ways to do any given thing in code. I may code something up in a completely different way than you or someone else would.
These past two days have been a blur. Friday was a project day that got shortened to celebrate the graduating seniors. It was great getting to congratulate and talk to several seniors and hear all about interviewing.
Saturday was hiring assessment day.
Highlights of the day:
Today, we banged out some good progress on our group project. We were able to finalize some first iterations on data structure and overall design and uses.
It was a very good day.
Highlights of the day:
Today was all about the start of group projects. We were broken into groups of between 3 and 4 for this next phase.
I have been put in an awesome group with Andy Coenen, Benoy Maniara, and Kiran Rao.
We’ve gotten off to a great start with a cool idea and some great first steps.
I can’t wait to see where we land and share more.