Why I'm at Flatiron

I only have one prior blog post and looking back to it, it's crazy how much I've learned in the past month. Thinking about it, it's also crazy how much has really happened in my personal life. Prior to Flatiron I was in The City College of New York as an intended computer science major just trying to work through it. One thing you would know if you click the link is that my school is a STEM school. All this really means is that it's heavy on the sciences and math. As an extent of this, they push REALLY heavily on math, something that I'm TERRIBLE at. As a result of this I failed math two semesters in a row. I didn't want to risk failing out of the school so I decided to take the next semester off and luckily as I decided this I overheard my stepdads nephew say something I had heard before. He said that he got his job in tech through a bootcamp. Up until this point I've only heard of bootcamps from Youtube ads and always thought they were scams or just not worth it and that I needed my degree to really get anywhere in life. Once I heard about this the only thing that was scaring me of at that point was the cost so I tried teaching myself how to code (clearly it didn't go well) but after a couple months I bit the bullet and signed up for APP ACADEMY. What a twist I know. Come to find out, after preparing for all that time I didn't pass the test required to get in. I was sad but little did I know it was probably a blessing in disguise. My second choice was Flatiron and after actually getting into Flatiron I was extremely nervous because I just didn't know how it was going to go. Fast forwarding a little bit I knew I was in the right arms. I lucked out and got the best set of instructors and coach anyone could've asked for. No but seriously they are the greatest couple of people anyone could've asked for and after the first week I knew that it was going to be a good couple of months. I have no regrets and I'm more than happy to be where I am. Sadly meanwhile my personal life has been rocky and there's been some things but through it all I just think of graphs like this

and how nothing is that linear. All in all, I'm happy and grateful that I'm having such an incredible experience at Flatiron. In spite of that, obviously, your mileage may vary.