I stood on a panel before two hundred judgmental eyes.
It was the fifth day of the seventh week of my intensive coding endeavor inside of a corporate AT&T building in the heart of Atlanta. I had been preparing for several weeks, stirring over what I would do, over what I would say. I had decided I would stick with the general final words like, “I had so much fun” and “This was the experience of a lifetime”, but it was not until I was moments away from walking onto the stage did I realize what really needed to be said.
So, there I stood, before my parents, my mentors, and the founder of the program herself and I recounted all the heart-warming and the heart-wrenching aspects of my brief sojourn with coding.
Since my early childhood, I have
It was the fifth day of the seventh week of my intensive coding endeavor inside of a corporate AT&T building in the heart of Atlanta. I had been preparing for several weeks, stirring over what I would do, over what I would say. I had decided I would stick with the general final words like, “I had so much fun” and “This was the experience of a lifetime”, but it was not until I was moments away from walking onto the stage did I realize what really needed to be said.
So, there I stood, before my parents, my mentors, and the founder of the program herself and I recounted all the heart-warming and the heart-wrenching aspects of my brief sojourn with coding.
Since my early childhood, I have