{"id":478,"date":"2015-05-24T23:49:06","date_gmt":"2015-05-25T07:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jacksontech.net\/?p=478"},"modified":"2015-05-24T23:49:06","modified_gmt":"2015-05-25T07:49:06","slug":"achievement-get-bachelors-degree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jacksontech.net\/index.php\/2015\/05\/achievement-get-bachelors-degree\/","title":{"rendered":"Achievement Get: Bachelor&#8217;s Degree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s 12:35AM so I&#8217;m not going to be very wordy. Here&#8217;s the upshot:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>My mother and I have <strong>graduated<\/strong> from California State University, Sacramento, with our Bachelor&#8217;s degrees!\n<ul>\n<li>She now has a Psychology degree.<\/li>\n<li>I now have a Computer Science degree.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>I was the Student Speaker at commencement. Hopefully most of you that listened to it were inspired to go out there and do cool things.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m going to grad school.\n<ul>\n<li>CSUS for my Master&#8217;s degree.<\/li>\n<li>Stanford or Berkeley for my PhD&#8230;eventually.\n<ul>\n<li>My dream: d.school. My Agile project management class did a presentation on it. I&#8217;d love to attend.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>&#8230;but I&#8217;m thinking about getting into the Software Engineering field somewhere between the Master&#8217;s and the PhD. After experiencing the joy of working on a small team that got stuff done and had fun while doing so (courtesy of Senior Project, and literally the first time I have experienced this kind of team), I&#8217;m <em>very <\/em>excited about the prospect of working with people who love working with computer software and hardware&#8230;and who love working with other people.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Obligatory image of me being inspiring on four hours of sleep:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_477\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 562px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jacksontech.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Commencement2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-477\" src=\"http:\/\/jacksontech.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Commencement2.jpg\" alt=\"Me standing at the podium\" width=\"562\" height=\"388\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jacksontech.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Commencement2.jpg 562w, https:\/\/jacksontech.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Commencement2-300x207.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 562px) 100vw, 562px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;I&#8217;d like to thank glucose, for allowing my brain to process all those cat videos&#8230;&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;m still waiting for it to sink in: we have our <strong>degrees<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s 12:35AM so I&#8217;m not going to be very wordy. Here&#8217;s the upshot: My mother and I have graduated from California State University, Sacramento, with our Bachelor&#8217;s degrees! She now has a Psychology degree. I now have a Computer Science degree. I was the Student Speaker at commencement. Hopefully most of you that listened to &#8230; <a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/jacksontech.net\/index.php\/2015\/05\/achievement-get-bachelors-degree\/\">more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,28],"tags":[56,41],"class_list":["post-478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-personal","tag-csus","tag-education-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jacksontech.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jacksontech.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jacksontech.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jacksontech.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jacksontech.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=478"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jacksontech.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":479,"href":"https:\/\/jacksontech.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478\/revisions\/479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jacksontech.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jacksontech.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jacksontech.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}