Week 5 - Recovery

Part 1 - Teammate Coaching

Lawrence - Lawrence has a solid career path and goals very similar to my own. I have found that there are two types of successful computer scientists. There are those who wish to build something completely new and their dream is to start their own startup. And there are those like Lawrence and I who would rather negate the risk and lend our talents to a more established shop. As for coaching, I would say that Lawrence that he has a good goal and should check into trying to find an internship ideally where he wishes to work. If that is not possible, try to find a place that is a direct competitor to where you wish to work. You will get relevant training and I'm sure a recruiter would love to stick it to a rival and steal you away.

Huy - Huy's plan is basically exactly the same as mine and we are in about the exact same spot. Sounds like he landed an internship and will be working in industry sooner rather than later. My only coaching to Huy would be to absolutely kill it on the job since hiring from within is generally easier than going outside. Of course, I know he will but it is important enough to be worth repeating.

Part 2 - Capstone Ideas

1. Game in which programming or at least that kind of thought process is the primary gameplay mechanic. Get kids started early.
   
2. Yelp focusing on value. Basically, I'm flat broke and I care significantly more about value than quality. So instead of just generic quality, I'd prefer a metric of happiness/dollar.
   
3. Speed reading trainer/app - Hugely valuable skill that nobody seems to have.

Part 3 - Review

As for this weeks assignments, it was relatively slow which I was extremely thankful for. Work was pretty busy and I was basically camped out in my room attempting to recover from the flu. On the bright side, I quit smoking and set a date for my wedding. So I guess you could say that everything was coming up Kev, including any solid food. As for my future, I can not see myself applying to grad school. It would be cool to get a masters so I could rub my higher education right in my considerably more successful brother's face but with getting married two months after graduation and all of the fun time adult expenses like a mortgage or kids on my horizon, I just don't see it happening. If anything, I may go for an MBA since I'm looking at sales anyway and based on the homework I helped my business major friends with, shouldn't be very hard compared to CS.