Future Goals: Where I Want to Take This Writing about this semester in detail, course by course, made one thing clearer than I expected: the individual pieces I learned Python syntax, MySQL querie...

Building My GitHub Digital Footprint When I first heard the phrase “digital footprint” in the context of a student portfolio, it sounded a little abstract almost like something meant for professi...

Exams and Assignments: The Final Stretch There is a particular kind of pressure that builds up in the last few weeks of a semester, and this term it arrived almost all at once. Assignments that ha...

Practical Labs: Where the Real Learning Happened If I had to point to the single setting where most of my actual learning happened this semester, it would not be the lecture hall it would be the l...

Semester Challenges: What Actually Tested Me Most of the posts I have written so far focus on what I learned in a specific course, but learning was never really the hard part of this semester on i...

Object-Oriented Programming: A New Way to Think in Code After spending the first part of the semester writing Python in a fairly linear, step-by-step style, moving into C# and object-oriented prog...

Digital Logic Design: Where Software Stops and Hardware Begins Programming Fundamentals and Database Systems both deal with logic that lives entirely inside software, but Digital Logic Design pull...

My Machine Learning Experience Machine Learning was not a formal course on my timetable this semester, but it ended up taking up a surprising amount of my time anyway, mostly because of how it was...

Insurance Claim Prediction: My First End-to-End ML Project Most of the small exercises I had done before this project gave me a clean dataset and a clear question to answer. The insurance claim pr...

ER Diagrams: Designing Before Building For the first few weeks of Database Systems, I jumped straight into writing CREATE TABLE statements whenever an assignment needed a new database. It worked, ...