Alternate Really Long Title: On Existing as an Other in a World That Sees You As Normal; a Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing, if You Will. Before you read this blog post, there's a couple of things you should know. The first is that this is dedicated to my amazing aunt Jerri. I have so much love and respect for you and one of the first things I...

One of the many things I'm doing to prepare for my Capstone program at Launch School is familiarizing myself with Go, the language we'll be using when studying data structures and algorithms. While knocking out Codewars problems is helpful, I find I get better accustomed to a language's ecosystem if I try to build something with it. I ...

Hello once again 👋 This is going to be a stream-of-consciousness post, primarily because it's just a bundle of thoughts I had while on my hike today. On a side note, here's a portion of my local park that I've adopted and where I hiked to: I've been thinking about vulnerability a lot recently, as I've been blown away by the authentic a...

Intro For those of you subscribed to me for well thought-out emotional posts, I have some bad news for you. This is a technical article! But I'll do my best to make it readable and fun 😃 As a brief reprieve from my Capstone preparations, I decided to look through Raymond Gan's Build Your Own X repo for a worthy weekend project. Since I...

Clickbait Title: How I Went from 1.7 GPA College Dropout to Straight-A Launch School Student Content warning: mentions of suicide Time to read: ~10 minutes . . . So. I'm actually here. The finish line. Well, it's more like I now qualify for the race, but I digress. It's a little surreal being here, nearly 1 year after starting this jou...