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title: "Capstone Blog Series #1: Introductions"
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description: "First of four posts that I wrote for my OSU Capstone Project"
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pubDate: "Aug 25 2023"
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_Originally posted to blogs.oregonstate.edu on Apr 6, 2023_
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To begin my inaugural post in this series I’d like to tell you a little bit about myself. My name
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is Andy, and I’m excited to have you all with me as we navigate the next three months. I was
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interested in computers at a very young age, and I went on to build my first desktop when I was in
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high school. Since then I’ve built many more as well as a few home servers to host my own cloud
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services. Despite my interest in computing I had always considered it a hobby, and my first degree
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was in Ethics, History, and Public Policy. I thought I wanted to be lawyer (I didn’t). Instead of
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continuing my education I went to work for an insurance company. While I wasn’t sure whether
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insurance would be my career, I liked the people I worked with and it paid the bills. I ended up
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working in claims processing for seven years until, unfortunately, I experienced some health issues
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that forced me to leave the workforce altogether. It was not a happy time, yet as with any
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life-changing event it also brought new perspective. As I began to recover I realized that, despite
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the setbacks, I had a very rare opportunity to pursue an entirely new course in life. Where I had
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previously only considered tinkering with computers a mere hobby, I became determined to leverage
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my skills and start a new chapter.
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I have taken on many roles in both my work and personal life. I’ve led projects, participated in
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teams, collaborated in multi-disciplinary settings, and worked alone. One thing I’ve learned about
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myself is that I am adaptable. I honestly don’t know what role I might settle into as a programmer
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in a room full of other tech people because it’s a new experience for me in many ways. However, I
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am becoming increasingly confident in my ability to rise to a challenge, and I suspect that my
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flexibility will continue to be an asset in this new setting as well. I am not particularly nervous
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about working in a group, I’ve done it many times before. That’s not to say I don’t have concerns
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though. Namely, group work is rarely fair. Different people have different talents, expectations,
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ambitions, and the list continues. It is my hope that my teammates and I are able to communicate
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well enough that our contributions are equitable, even if they can’t be perfectly equal.
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I was actually quite overwhelmed when I first browsed the list of projects that are available for
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this term. Did I want more experience with low-level programming? Embedded systems? An industry
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project? It was a lot to absorb. I gradually began to narrow things down and, to speak plainly, I
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selected the projects that sounded like the most fun. I have no doubt the process will be
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educational too, but considering it’s my last term at OSU I also wanted to create something that
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would be meaningful to me personally. To that end, I focused on projects that would allow me to
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enhance my skills with operating systems/computer architecture, graphics, and games. In addition to
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learning more in those areas of personal interest, I also hope to gain a better understanding of
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what it’s like to work collectively on a codebase. My previous classes have prepared me with theory
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and isolated exercises, now it’s time to put that knowledge to use.
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