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Women Who Code Connect!

Last week I had the honor of being able to attend Women Who Code Connect. I was a whirlwind day of networking, great talks, fun workshops and awesome swag. The morning started off bright and early at the Twitter building in San Francisco. People from all over the country came to recruit or to get a job. The energy was high as we stood in line for our badges. And there was a fun buzz in the air. As a job seeker myself I was excited to make new connections and hope to make an impression. I was pleasantly surprised when I didn't have to wait to network. People in line were so eager that I was able to do some great networking before even getting my badge! After getting my badge and going up to the main conference area I was blown away by all the booths and fun food set up for us that day. There were over 20 booths from different companies and every single one of them was highering! I was so excited I didn't even take the time to see what they had for breakfast. I started in straig

My Experience At Hack Reactor

To all my readers, sorry for the large time gap in between posts! I decided to switch up my career and become a Software Engineer! So for the last few months, I was in a coding Bootcamp specifically Hack Reactor. It was probably some of the hardest months of my life, but In just three months I was able to learn so much! More then I would have ever learned on my own. It was such an experience. This Bootcamp is not for the faint of heart. You are coding 6 days a week, with 12 - 13 hour days AND then you would go home and work more. In just the first 6 weeks of the program, I learned the basic technologies to become a full stack software engineer. Technology like JavaScript, React, AnugalrJS, NodeJS, Express, SQL and NON-SQL Databases. And in the remaining 6 weeks, we were able to apply our newly found knowledge into two capstone projects. The first project was called Front-End Capstone. Where we had a few weeks to really dive into our front-end skills to create websites that looked a