This week was a pretty productive and good week. Over the last weekend I finished coding my graphs for my presentation on Tuesday. I had some problems with my code at first, so I had to watch lots of YouTube tutorials and practice on Codecademy. Eventually, after lots of trouble shooting and emailing my mentor, I had fixed my code and it had produced the graphs I wanted.
Monday: We had a meeting with our small group. In the meeting, we just went over our code and how we were feeling about tomorrow’s presentations. Noah went over my code, and said it was pretty good. He told me what I could improve on, like titles and labels on the graph. Honestly, I was super nervous for my presentation on Tuesday. I knew that I was prepared for the presentation, but the thought of presenting in front a bunch of educated adults was a little nerve-racking. It almost felt like I was in school, and I didn’t want to get a bad grade on my presentation.
Tuesday: Today was the big day. I was supposed to be the second person to present. To start off the meeting, we had to change ‘Zoom Rooms’ because we had trouble recording the meeting in our previous one. When trying to join the other meeting, I realized I didn’t copy the link to the other room completely, so I was unable to join the meeting. I had to do some detective work. After a few minutes, I had found the link to the room through my Google Calendars. When I finally joined, Indie had already started her presentation. She did a really good job, and seemed unfazed by questions. The next thing you know, it was my turn to present. I was so nervous, but I knew I had to get this done. Right when I started, I felt so unprepared. I didn’t know where to start, so I just explained what I had been doing for the past couple weeks in this internship. Then I turned on my screen-sharing, and showed the whole group my code. I explained why we code our data into graphs. We make graphs for data because they make it easier to understand. Numbers don’t really mean anything if you can’t see them. With graphs it’s easier to compare and see the difference in data and numbers. After I explained that and my code, it was open for questions. Of course I didn’t know the answer to the first question I was asked, so I said just that. I felt a little stupid saying that, but I wanted to give an honest answer. After the meeting, I realized Noah emailed me. I was so nervous to open it, but I eventually did. In his email he said that he was proud of me, and that I did a great job presenting and being honest. That email really lifted a huge weight off my shoulders, I was finally able to breathe.
Wednesday: In the morning, Indiana and I met with Noah. We went over our presentations and how we felt. I told Noah that his email meant a lot to me, and it really lifted a weight off my shoulders. He then gave us each a task to do, and mine was to practice on Codecademy. Pinhead’s Sarah Holbrooke reached out to me and offered for Pinhead to pay for Codecademy Pro, which is $200+. So I’d love to thank Pinhead and Sarah for being so generous, and for helping me to improve my skills through Codecademy. After talking for a bit, we changed the subject to what we were doing this weekend. This weekend, my family and I had planned to go camping in Payson, Arizona.
Thursday: We had no meetings on Thursday, so I spent the morning emailing and using the last day I had on the free Codecademy trial. Later, we left for Payson.
Friday: Friday was counted as a holiday so we had the work day off. That was good because it meant that I missed nothing important. Camping was a fun experience. I had a lot of time to self-reflect and to think about what’s important to me. Being with my family, not really caring about work, and having a stress-free weekend really put my head into the right mindset for this next week’s work.
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