Alright, so I just took the last week off to get mentally ready for college. It’s been 7 years since I graduated from Rutgers! My way to get “mentally ready” was to just binge watch TV shows and movies and lay in bed a lot and pet my animals (2 cats and a dog). I’m sure hiking, meditating on top of mountains and swimming in lakes of serenity would probably have been a more efficient use of time, but hey, what’s done is done.
Today was my first day of school! After getting into one final class that I thought I wasn’t going to get into, my final schedule is… Intro to Computer Science, Internet Programming, Rails, C and Java. Yeah, that’s a lot of computer classes. Maybe I overdid it? NEVER!
The “internet programming” class is essentially everything taught in Treehouse’s front end web dev course…HTML, CSS, Javascript, Ajax, etc. This is probably the most directly applicable class for my flexible amoeba of a future career, but who knows! I’ll be taking a database course in the fall, and maybe that’s where my true passion resides. That’s why I’m glad I’m going the college route..it makes you take classes you wouldn’t ordinarily want to take. I don’t really get to pick and choose my way to the degree.
Ok homework time.
Hello Katy,
I wish you the best with your studies, keep pursuing your dreams !
Hi Katy, I’m wondering if you looked into any dev boot camps and why you chose school instead?
I did look into bootcamps, but I was somewhat disappointed by the whole deal. It’s VERY expensive, and you don’t actually get a degree. Also, I don’t feel like 3 months is a long enough time to actually learn enough. Plus, with getting my AS degree, I will be required to take a lot of different courses, and I’ll end up with a more well rounded education. Once I get a strong Computer Science foundation, learning different languages/platforms is going to be much easier.