What habits, processes, and knowledge have you identified this week that you will need to improve on or obtain in order to become that person?
- The appreciations I have for this week center around my apprecoiation for my group, their stamina and dedication, as well as our ability to program together as a group. Without the group's contributions and inputs, I do not think that this project would have been possible.
- Wins for this week include tiny victories, like:
- Figuring our how to upload our user avatar to our database.
- Figuring out how to send mutation requests so that our user info can be updated on the backend.
- Struggles that we encountered were simply getting lost in a code base does not follow the conventions that we have learned up to this point at Turing.
How well did you stick to your calendar this past week? Did you spend more/less time in some areas than planned? If so, what areas and why?
- I am struggling to keep up with my calendar. I feel like there is much planned for us as students for every hour of the day that I am unable to even find time to shit.
- This is to say that I do better with chunks of time throughout my day in which I can explore my own interests, and do whatever I need to do in order to keep my mind and body fit. I do not feel like I have time to do these things, and overall it impacting my energy levels and well being.
- I need there NOT to be events / classes / obligations planned for every second of every day.
- The mode switching involved with going from class to project to PD is an overwhelming energy suck. It is not helpful to have an hour here or an hour there to work on the project, because the code switching involved in moving from two different things is a hug energy suck.
- I want to be a person who has a strong network that they can lean on, and help with programming questions or getting a new job.
- I have rekindled relationships from a previous network. I took the time on LinkedIn to go over the profiles of people in my Apple network from 10 years ago. As it turns out, many of these folks (after leaving Apple) are now senior level software engineers. I reached out to my 2 closests friends from Apple. I have a tnetaive coffee meeting scheduled for next week with Gabe Walford, who is an engineering manager at Uplight. So when we meet, hopefully he will have some insight on ways to break into the software development game.
- I have appreciation for all the backend folks on our Crate project team (including Derek Borski, Danny Ramos, Jack Gould), for they have really been taking the time and energy to explain from a BE perspective to the frontend teammates (myself included), how the code is functioning and how they are seeing things. This is really making our team feel cohesive, and like a TEAM. Unlike my previous experience with this repo… where the BE folks really made it clear that they were not willing to giude the FE developers thru the code, and it really felt like our team was comprised of 2 teams – BE & FE.