Edit: Wrote this post a month ago but for some reason I forgot to post it! I recently attended the Winter Job Fair and the Disciplines of Engineering Career Fair (DECaF) held at UCSD where hundreds of companies and prospective employees go to network and hopefully land a job. I went with the same intention … Continue reading Job Fairs at UCSD

Coming Back to UCSD This summer has definitely been an experience journey for my computer science career. I learned so much about industry processes like scrum and agile processes while taking on many different projects a real software engineer would take. Going back to UCSD, I feel like I have picked up so many good … Continue reading Internship Post #13

Revisiting Week 8: Tracking your growth Over a month ago, I had just started on working on the REST services for a schedule editing tool on the software my team is building. I'd say I've learned way more in this past month than I have in my first two months of the internship because I … Continue reading Internship Post #12

Revisit on Teamwork Back in Week 5, I felt like I had a different interpretation on teamwork in industry. I felt that the team I am on in San Diego interacts a lot with the team in Santa Clara, but that was when I was working on tasks which I could accomplish by myself - … Continue reading Internship Post #11

Revisit on Professional and Ethical Behavior (Week 3) I wanted to revisit my initial thoughts on my post about professional and ethical behavior and even expand on it. Back then, my biggest concerns was getting the hang of the office culture at my company and fit in. I thought that if I were to fit in, … Continue reading Internship Post #10

Societal Impact In doing my work, I hope that it helps make the lives of other people much easier, especially when handling software. More and more people are turning to software to solve their daily problems, and to make that process as seamless and quick as possible would be great to see. Heck, if I … Continue reading Internship Post #9

Tracking Your Growth Over the past two months, I've definitely grown a lot more and I'm sure that is the same with just about everyone else. I was given problems that I couldn't solve with the skill sets I had, and was able to learn and conquer them, all while being able to share with … Continue reading Internship Post #8

How Did I Get This Internship Through perseverance and not letting that feeling of not having an internship get to me. This is actually my second internship with the same company. The first time I interned, I didn't have an internship for the whole summer but continued to apply, even as late into August. That's … Continue reading Internship Post #7

Communication I cannot express the value of communication in the workplace, especially when working on a continuous-integration, continuous-delivery platform. With that said, there are many modes of communication with my mentors, supervisors and colleagues. We have a scrum meeting everyday to talk about issues, roadblocks and successes as well as opened many modes of communication … Continue reading Internship Post #6

Teamwork My project team consists of eight people. Six of them are developers/developer leads and the other two are QA. We interact with each other daily during our scrum meetings and often throughout the day either in person or through email or slack. The scrum meetings are effective because we are able to talk through … Continue reading Internship Post #5