I know a lot about how computer chips are made and electronics. I lived with a person obsessed and I personally adore Richard Feynman.
Hardware is a bit too... shocking for me but I love to program things. My goal for next year is to learn C++, robotics, and advanced computer graphics. I think that should have been what my first year of my CS studies was dedicated towards but too late now.
Halfway through that first year was CS 102 or whatever (when you learn Big O). I knew I was one of the only math lovers in the class because the other women didn't like it. Except one woman and I matched up with her to do a pair programming assignment. She did it all in about ten minutes before my eyes, on her super giant laptop. Dazzling. Now, turn it in for us and explain to me what the hell you did. She also dropped out for dumb reasons, by the way. What is a good reason, though, if you are a whiz. People perhaps can't be bribed over prioritizing personal relationships. Big Same.
I was feeling a little dense by that point in the studies because the first part was doing horrible "if" statements and the second part was re-making basic libraries in Java. Then, one day, the teacher came up on the topic of CPU architecture. Me, a fanatic of Leo Laporte and friends, nodded along. But then I looked up from my laptop, at the instructor, and realized lots of people in their second semester of computer science could do the syllabus assignments better than me while they didn't even understand the physics of computing systems.
Now I am working on a demo portfolio but I have faith in myself that no matter what a mess it is, it will not run so hot your hands burn and your battery dies. Or the API costs aren't accidentally driven up into the hundreds of thousands of dollars by my own bot.
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