From ME to CS Journey

Looking at the Capstone presentations I think developing a game would be the most enjoyable for me.  Especially something physics oriented, like a planet/satellite orbit calculator.  All I need is a little project to entice me to learn orbital mechanics :).   I think any type of game I'd like to pursue.  Other ideas I've thought about are a simulation type game either in stock trading, or economic type game.   Teammates Goals: Enjoyed reading through everyone's career plan as everyone is in a different boat with their own unique approach to achieving their goals.  It's very inspiring to be in the same group with these very motivated individuals!  Saria's Rahim 's Jess 's Looking to pursue graduate schools, where I'd prefer to be at the forefront of innovation.  I've been an engineer for 10 years now and I don't feel like I'm working in a field/industry where science and engineering principles merge and go hand in hand.  Some areas o...

 Part One: Set Your Educational Goals I'd like to focus on developing an excellent portfolio of projects to show case my programming and creative problem solving skills.  How that goal is judged will depend if I can change my career from mechanical engineering to programming! Part Two: Set Your Career Goals I'd like to have a software oriented role, which can be in a variety of fields, but my main goals would be in flight/physics simulation modeling and/or thermal simulation modeling.  Either developing the models themselves or the software that engineers use to solve these types of issues. Part Three: In 18 months, I think I'd do really well, maybe in 70-80% percentile.  I'm genuinely interested in learning computer science topics so it will be a fun journey forward.  Part Four:  I finally caught up on all my coursework after falling behind in the first couple weeks, so I'm glad to have learned more content this week.  This week after working on my ou...

 Two study tips I've been trying to work on are fighting depression and overcoming anxiety.  While these two subjects I've been struggling with most of my life, they really come into light over the past 5 years.  Since then I've been to therapy and started taking antidepressant medication which helps me cope with depression and anxiety.   Learning about Ethics has always been interesting and also frustrating topic for me.  I've taken an upper division course called Environmental Ethics, which dived into how humans view and interact with nature.  Some of these concepts have stayed with me and I'm relearning them here as well as learning more. Care Ethics is similar to custodian ethics in environmental sense, where humans are a part of the Earth versus the Earth was made for humans.  The reading on what computer science students should know was interesting and I learned quite a bit from it.  I was surprised to see the use of LaTeX being very co...

 Boy this course has tons of work. Definitely not what I was expecting. The review and reflect document listed for this week includes a variety of different learning strategies.  There are aspects that I do find that I do, however, personally it's difficult to achieve because of my own personal obstacles I deal with daily.  That is depression and anxiety.   There are days where I can get great sleep and days where I get terrible sleep.  There's no pattern that I've been able to find out. Either way I have to brute force my way to accomplishing tasks at work and for school.  When anxiety and depression hits all this plan just goes out the window and I have to reset which takes time.  I still try to work my way around depression and anxiety since I still have to be a productive member of society!   On top of that my work varies.  I can travel across the united states, I can have meetings late or real early in the morning with colleagu...

 Welp.  My start of this program hasn't been that great, mostly because I scheduled a vacation that starts at the beginning of this CS program!  After 10 days I'm back now and ready to get started!  Looking forward to build up my nerdy knowledge of Computer Science on top of my solid engineering background!