./bootcampSeries/moduleOne: a retrospect
obYesterday marked the official completion of module one here at Galvanize. HTML, CS, Javascript, and jQuery made up the past 7 weeks of my life. It has certainly been an experience. From adjusting to my new routine, to meeting my awesome new classmates, to learning how to learn, to starting to delve into new technologies head-on. At risk of sounding like a broken record: it’s been crazy. I’ve really enjoyed module one, front-end development interests me and sparks my natural creative intuition. I’ve really enjoyed adding my own visual influence to assignments and pages. It’s probably too soon to tell but I think this is what I want to focus on. Back-end development still seems... scary to me. But we haven’t even began learning about that yet so I’ll just keep an open mind and see how it all goes. Emotionally, this experience has had a lot of chutes and ladders. Ladders when I accomplish a goal I set for myself, when I design a beautiful page just the way I imagined it when first establishing its <html> tags, when I show friends something I’ve made and they compliment me. But the chutes are unique. They are “formative chutes”. This immersive career experience has made me grow up fast. I spend my day developing skills meant for a fulfilling employment in the near future, I daydream about the kind of company culture I want to fit in to, I sit around imagining this great future I’m going to have. My dreams and desires have become practical and realistic. This means I no longer enjoy the things that not too long ago made up the entirety of my life aka the San Francisco party scene. I’m realizing that I’m rapidly moving into a new phase of my life which consequently means I’m outgrowing a lot of people rapidly as well. I want to be surrounded by driven, career-oriented people. This is the antithesis of a lot of the people I was surrounded by for the past few years working as an event photographer. It’s bittersweet in its own way, but I know it’s all for the best. Anyway that’s enough of that! I will be making a post soon regarding our front-end project and the virtual pet I created using all of the technologies we learned during module one!
