Life Lessons
Originally coming from a science background was the best thing to happen to me because allowed me to discover my true interest and that is technology and how it impacts our world and the businesses that allow the world and every entity within it to function. I began with my transitional journey by beginning with a biology major in undergrad. My original goal was to complete this biology degree and go to dental school with the hopes of eventually specializing to become an orthodontist. I think the main reason for my initial decision to go this route is because of my naivety and, honestly, my outright stupidity. I googled “highest paying careers in america” and orthodontists were in the top 5. I went the science/dentistry direction solely based on the salary and this is probably the most stupidest thing I could have done. I always knew I had a certain knack for technology and even my parents and relatives would always tell me to find something to do in IT/Software because I understand it innately. So I began college and my biology degree and I eventually lose motivation and get academically suspended for 2 semesters, 1 year. This whole year I spiraled down into depression and I just didn’t know what to do. I had no confidence left in myself and even got to a point where I questioned my purpose in life. I focused all of my energy in trying to act normal around my peers and my family, only to end every day empty. My own mind was against me and I didn’t tell anyone I was out of school, including my parents, and this eventually catalyzed my downward spiral. However this year of my age 22, would be the most life-changing year of my 24 years of life. I realized many things, both internally and externally that needed to be changed and I have become something completely different now. I was eligible to return to school January 2017 and I knew that I had to finish my biology degree because I had finish what I started and I knew my parents wanted to see their 5 year investment bear fruit, even it was a useless biology degree. A degree is a degree. I sacrificed my college social life and any free time I had and I took 16 credit hours of all of my biology high level elective courses for the spring 2017 semester. My academic adviser had me scheduled to graduate December 2017 and I could not waste any more time, so I set my personal schedule for July 2017. I finished almost one year’s worth of biology credits in a spring semester and a whole summer session, graduated with a much higher GPA and even finished the biology degree with a concentration in molecular/cell biology. Subsequently after, I chose the Firehose Project after researching many bootcamps and I knew this was the way to get “my foot in the door”. My only focus now is to catch up and reach my full potential, and to keep one thing above all else, me and my confidence. I know now what needs to be done and I have tapped into every single fiber of my being to reach my full potential physically, financially, professionally, and socially.
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
-Winston Churchill