A Kamerican Blog

I'm currently on a Spring co-op cycle, and during the summer months, I commute from my home in New Hampshire into Boston. Ideally, this trip takes between 40-50 minutes, but with rush hour traffic  (which is what I was driving in) that time quickly rises to nearly 2hrs. At some points along the route, cars would come to a crawl of around 5mph for a couple miles, yet people still tried to weave in and out of lanes to try to get ahead. It drove me insane... For the first couple of weeks, I'd be frazzled and stressed by the time I made it to work. Constantly having to watch out for drivers cutting me off, tired/distracted people not paying attention and rear ending me, or crazy drivers narrowly avoiding smashing into other cars around me was exhausting and extremely aggravating. Eventually, I started to know when I was coming up on a spot on my commute that regularly had bad traffic and could start mentally preparing myself. I'd usually do that by trying to think of a pro...

"My Big Data 'Wow' Moment" I'd been accepted to CCIS at Northeastern, but I wasn't super into computer science during the majority of my senior year in high school. It wasn't until I read this article ->  Forbes Article Link  in AP Psychology that my interest was peaked. (Ignoring the fact that it may have been fake) the fact that Target could predict a pregnancy using data boggled my mind. It was so gloriously creepy, and I wanted to be able to do that.  Because my computer science interest was sparked so late, I went into my co-op search with little to no coding experience. To avoid the stress of technical interviews, I took my first job in a role that did not require any advanced technical abilities. Strangely, I ended my 6 months having completed countless coding projects. From reverse engineering a hurricane prediction model to creating a web application to estimate storm surge at a location given a lat/long. Looking back, if I had more kno...