Hey there, this is IGO 👋
This may or may not be your first time around the aerochrome blog, but I am sure you haven't been told about my personal adventures. So, as a summary of my whereabouts, sit tight and enjoy a cup of coffee while you read about it. ☕
Much of what I have to tell you wraps around my life events of 2024, a year of despair, confusion, and the feeling of uncertainty after becoming a graduate.
"Ooh a gradute! You must have worked a lot with... with that degree in... and I bet that will help you finding a job in-"
Applied Languages/Linguistics degree. That's right, I enrolled and finished a degree that blends languages and linguistics in fields like finance, technology, engineering, marketing, and so much more. But not everyone understands or finds this as exciting as I do. It is a well-rounded roulette of opportunities, except that you might end up taking none. They, in fact, seem to not exist at all. Have I done something with it? It does appear like it, but not much. What was I expecting, honestly...
💭 So that's when I thought:
"Oh right! There's this school I always thought of applying to, but that would mean changing my whole course of studies. Well anyway, I've always loved technology, so maybe now I will learn how to code for real."
From July 28th to August 23rd last year, I embraced the challenge of this no-teachers coding school. I was welcomed to the Piscine, a 26-day bootcamp as part of my application process to enter the school.
Doing that meant having to temporarily relocate to Porto so I could spend the maximum number of hours at the school along with 130 other candidates. All of us worked together to help each other understand the exercises proposed, to strengthen ways of studying for the exams, and to mainly absorb the spirit of becoming part of that school’s community—even if we didn't know we could become actual 42 students.
No teachers
No classes
Open 24/7
No GPA or traditional-education-metric required
Completely free of charge
42 is a promise for developers.
The effort, motivation, and dedication of that bootcamp officially brought out my entry as a Common Core student of 42 Porto, a path I began working on since October of that same year. 💪
Ever since, I have been developing projects in C and soon in C++. And so I thought programming based on Software Development projects was for me... but gladly, 42 has one or another project that highlights systems and their functioning. Those opened my eyes to realize that this is the tech branch I absolutely love, and I am very thankful that it was a community-based school that opened my eyes to it in case I have doubts in the future.
These past 6 months pushed me hard and will hopefully continue to make me try harder and harder each time, but I am not sad if I fail.
It has already helped me immerse in web3 and stick to a passion of evolution and decentralization as we had a Starknet Event right on campus, which brought me tons of knowledge about the protocol and what they have been up to. Since then, I've enrolled in their bootcamp, read the documentation, and practiced Cairo accordingly. 👩💻
Being too deep into coding was not pleasing my social side enough, therefore I had to make some decisions about it: it was time I started hanging around communities more—but not only in-person.
Ultimately, this was my sign to join H.E.R DAO, and I will soon be onboarding into their community. H.E.R DAO is powered to help women and non-binary folks in favor of equality inside the blockchain space. The goal aims to build and develop anything that serves as a potential tool for full equality for everyone.
The future holds something, I just don't know what yet. I can't question when or what is gonna happen, but I believe in progress, and these past months have proven to myself that I can, in fact, follow a promise: may or may not be a coding one, but at least I am not empty-handed!
This was all the newsflashes. I hope to have you around next time again!
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