Sunday, December 31, 2017

Full Circle

A year minus ~10 days ago today, I received my acceptance email from Hackbright Academy, marking the start of a journey that would quite literally change my life. Just a week ago, I accepted an offer from MakerSights, where I had been working as a software engineering intern for the past three months, to be a full-time junior software engineer.
Both occasions fell on the week of National Sangria Day, of which I had celebrated at Spark Social's bottomless sangria event.  I couldn't feel luckier to have been granted this good fortune two years in a row, and I'd like to think that this will be a continuing trend, both for the good news and sangria drinking.

As I think of the coming year and what I've had to put on pause in 2017 because of the career-switching, job-applying, and interning, here's what I'd like to see the 2018-me achieve:
  1. Become a morning person. That is, be able to wake up early enough to: 
  2. Go for regular morning runs 
  3. Finish my React Node web app 
  4. Finish my Warriors data visualization app 
  5. Cook Julia Child's Beouf Bourginon 
  6. Travel to Portland 
  7. Travel to Austin (during ACL) 
  8. Make a 1-s everyday video 
  9. Dye my hair 
  10. Attend a comedy show 
  11. Learn Spanish 
  12. Cook a whole fish 
So there you have it. Tangible goals, here we go!

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