Blog 10 - Interview 2 Reflection

I like to think of myself as a James Franco when I interview

1. Please explain how you are spending your mentorship time (Is it at a workplace or somewhere else?  Are you shadowing?  Are you able to do tasks that are meaningfully related to the topic?  If so, what?  Are there other people who are experts in the location?  Etc...)

      - With my mentor, I learn how to write different areas of code and see what they equate to when programs are run. As practice we make small applications that do one thing, for example give all the traits of a human and differentiate people, and spend hours working on the code.

2.  How did you find your mentor?  How did you convince this person to help you?  

     - My mom helped me find my mentor Brian, she heard at work that one of her friends has a partner whose job is to program and recommended me right away. I met up with Brian, gave him the rundown on the Senior Project and asked if he would like to take somebody under his wing and he was up for ti.

3. How would you rate your comfort level with your mentor at this point in your relationship?  How does this relate to the time you've spent so far at mentorship/with this person

     - My comfort level is a solid 8/10. I can ask any question and never expect snarky responses on how basic a question is, when I write code on my own Brian will let me try my best before trying to correct me, and we meet at a coffee house so we do our lessons over blended ice coffee. This is completely because I spend a lot of time with Brian and have just gotten comfortable with the way he is, and he to I.

4. What went well in this interview?  Why do you think so?  What do you still need to improve?  How do you know?  How will you go about it?

     - For what went well, I would say how excited my mentor got. He definitely showed me a side that I'm not used to seeing and has pure enthusiasm about what he does. I need to improve on my vocab with the subject because some stuff did go over my head at first listen. But this will be fixed with more experience.

Link to my Interview #2 Here

Blog 9 - Advisory Prep 3

 

It me, it me.

1. State whether or not you currently have a mentor, and what the status of your interview is with that person.

     - Currently I have a mentor, Brian, and together we make small applications. Because I work and have young scholars it is very hard to find time. However, the interview will happen next week.

2. At this point, your research is probably guiding your studies toward more specific areas within your topic.  Name the area or two you find most promising and explain your reasons.  

    - One category is, "Web Application Development," which is what I have been doing with my mentor and I enjoy. Another category is, "Technology Networking," which would require me to find multiple mentors and meet with whichever one is in town to learn how to break down technology talk to a management level.

3. What kinds of sources do you think will help you in the next month to gain more research depth?  Where will you go to get them?

     - In the next month I will gravitate more towards "How to's" on things like SQL and C# because for the most part I've only been looking at how to target and audience and design for web applications. Blogs run by employees at titan companies like Microsoft are abundant, so that will be my first place to look.

4. Write down a possible EQ.  Please don't worry about wording other than ensuring that it provides the option for multiple correct answers.  At this point, the senior team is most interested in understanding your thought process

     - What type of web application is the most useful across all audiences, and how can those audiences be reached?

Blog 8: Independent Component 1 Proposal

- My most recent project with my mentor

1.  Describe in detail what you plan to do for your 30 hours.

     - For my allocation of 30 hours, I plan to make a web application that will take the weather for a given area, present the conditions, and suggest outfit plans according to weather conditions. The project is something I've been wanting to do for a long time. Making sure the application works, putting it on a presentable platter, and putting it on a website for other devices to use will take much longer than 30 hours.

2.  Discuss how or what you will do to meet the expectation of showing 30 hours of evidence.

     - Taking up 30 hours will be no problem. Writing code itself should take about 40 hours if I'm constantly trying to improve. Not only will I have to spend hours writing the program, I'll also need to learn jQuery to put the application on a platform I feel comfortable presenting to other people. I will code during the few free hours I manage between school, work, and college.

3.  Explain how what you will be doing will help you explore your topic in more depth.

     - My topic is application development, this is the perfect way to explore it because it will be what I want it to be from start to finish and if it fails then I will learn why and how to fix it.

4.  Update your Senior Project Hours log.

     - Will do.