One word can Completely vamp up your resume, one word could change the minds of future employers, and I really believe that one word is internship. Internships are essential for not only plumping the ole resume, but more for the experience, knowledge and connections that one can gather from their time with a company.
Internships are a way to gather real world experience in the field of your major. So yeah, I say, “love ’em”!
But oh my gosh let me tell you, it really is a pain to find the right suit for you though. I don’t know if you are anything like me, but I only have a year of coding under my belt, and that can be very limiting.
Yet, I don’t give up hope. Because I know I have what it takes to be plunged into a foreign environment, put myself out there, and learn the ways of the trade. For if you are to afraid to do any of that, how will you ever learn and get to that level you want to be at.
A couple months ago, I would have read this and it would not have even phased me because I would have said something along the lines of “I could just learn all I need to from class or from the textbook”.
That’s all a big joke.
First of all, there is only so much you can learn from the textbook without actually going onto the computer and doing projects, practicing code. Second of all, I know I would have said something like this because I was Scared. Scared to seek help, scared to admit that I didn’t know anything, and scared to learn.
Since reading ‘The benefits of being s ‘dumb’ girl in Computer Science” by Catherine Clennan in the HUFFPOST last year, her perceptive completely changed my outlook.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/catherine-clennan/being-a-dumb-girl-in-computer-science_b_9636248.html
I highly recommend the read. She says that it is okay to not know anything, and it is okay to ask questions, because that is how you learn. These concepts took a while for me to wrap around my head, but I knew at this point it was either buckle down, suck it up, and be the strong, smart, woman I know I am and each one of you are, otherwise I had to choose a new major, and I wasn’t about to do that.
Be strong, ask questions!
XOXOXO
