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Rachell Sincere — Sun, 09 Mar 2025 03:20:01 +0000

Let’s try this again…5.5 years later. The more I learned, the less I knew. What a paradox. Took some time away from tech to pursue a nursing degree. Meh. Jumping back into another Compsci degree in April. I bore easily (obvi), and a perpetual learner. I’ve given up the fight. This is me lol. This should be fun…

"You CAN sit with us"

Rachell Sincere — Wed, 07 Aug 2019 17:55:58 +0000

Okay. Maybe I overreacted a tiny bit on the last post.

Now that I'm on the other side of my first Build-Week at Lambda school, this doesn't feel so bad after all. Our project came together beautifully. As far as my communication crisis? I laugh just thinking about how easily that was overcome. Mostly thanks to my amazing partner who was uninhibited and ready to work! I learned a lot about how project management tools such as Trello boards and Monday.com can really break a daunting project down into digestible pieces. Our UI came out beautiful and clean. Most importantly, we passed!

Overcoming that first (major) obstacle helped me get over my first bout of imposter's syndrome. My partner took on the task of completing our 'About the Team' page. Let me tell you: I was blown away by how my partner portrayed me and my skills/contributions. Reading that bio had to be the point where I realized that I do belong here. Seeing how my natural behavior and instincts (that I took for granted daily) were being perceived by someone I had known barely a month really helped me see my strengths and value to whatever company I will work with as a software engineer in the near future (hey, Microsoft!).

Now, I'm bracing myself for the start of something completely new: backend. Here we go again!

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Rachell Sincere — Wed, 29 May 2019 18:03:10 +0000

To say I'm overwhelmed would be a huge (#big, #gigantic, #monstrous) understatement. This week marks my 11th week at Lambda school and the start of my first Build Week Project. I have no clue what I'm doing. Yet, I know exactly what to do...

What the heck?!!

The issue lies in the fact that my collaboration and communication skills are being tested. I have to work with one other UI developer to design the marketing page for an app...I think. I'm not even clear on the instructions. Why? Because of my crab-like, anti-social personality, I'd rather sit back and have someone else ask all the clarifying questions so I can just get to work. Ha! Eventually I'll know what to do.

And I'll fill you in on all the brutal blockers and beautiful breakthroughs once I reach the other side in a couple weeks.

...But, right now? I'm just going to use up my free time venting, eating an ice cream cone, and watching countless Youtube videos on how to build a login page.

Pray to the JS gods for me...