My Career
Wasthenaw Techinical Middle College or WTMC is a instution that operates as a Middle College. In it,
high schoolers are given a very select few are truly very to receive. From this program, high schoolers are given 3 years in order to complete an
Assiocate's Degree, a certitification from Wasthenaw Community College or wcc, or even both at the same time
if they truly desired. Furthermore, there is no tuition, and all college related expenses are paid for through money collected by tax-payers
from the Michigan State Government. High School students are given the unique opportunity to get such an advancement early on in their career
that they are way ahead of the learning curve once they gradaute. Furthermore, this program does not only do wonders from an acadeimic standpoint,
but also bulding life skills that can be used for later down the road. When high school are kids put into an environment to where they put in adult like
situaons through the life of college, it makes them mature as being in a high school school grants you wiggle room to mess around in the classroom,
not meet dealines, and do as you please, but none of that will ever be tolerated in a college setting. Any miscoduct in a college setting results in failure
with the Dean, Profesor, and Campus Security, which grealty increases the stakes.
It is through this exact instiution that I was able to naviagate the career that I had desired to pursue. When I first started the program in 2016, I had wanted to become
a profesor in multiple languages and linguistics. The reason for this was because I come from a bi-racial background of being half Lebanese and half Indian,
which always made me have a strong affinity for languages, linguistics, and grammar. This would go on for my first year at WTMC, and I really had no intention of changing.
Languages, linguistics, and grammar was something that came extremely easy to me, and I really exceled in academic areas of these fields as well. However, all that would change
in my second year at WTMC.
In the summer before my second year at WTMC, I attended a boot camp for computer programming using JAVA. Through this boot camp, I began to realize that I
wanted to change my careers. Through this bootcamp, I realized there were many similar aspects to grammar in computer programming. Just as there rules that govern how
a word is placed, and how a sentence is is formed of combining different nouns, adjectives, adverbs, pronouns, and verbs to make a sentence, a line of code in JAVA
is made of different characters, intergers, and strings that are also combined together. This was my first experience ever getting into computer science, and at first I thought
computer science would be my chosen feild with a spealization in JAVA by getting a JAVA certitification from WCC.
In my fall semester of my third year, I had decided to continue with Computer Science, but I had decided to switch to C++.
The reason for this was at the time, I did not know that University of Michigan used C++ was Eastern used JAVA, and at the time I had
my mind set on going to University of Michigan. I took the first C++ class, and did extremely well in it. I understood the materaial, and the syntax needed
to use formulate code in JAVA was very similar to C++, so I did not find any struggle adapting to C++. I also throughly enjoyed learning the material,
and thought this would be my last shift in careers. However, I would be facing a dimena in my career, as I had reached the three year mark. I could have either applied
as a freshman to four year Universities that had a lot of college credit, or I could apply as a Trasfer Student to a four year institution after returning in the fall
of 2020 as a WCC student. I had decided to graduate WTMC, and come back in the fall as a full time WCC Student. When I graduated WTMC, I had graduated with
a General Math and Science Degree, as I had took Calculus as well as Physics to statisfy the require of Computer Science, as well as that I had earned a
MEMCA or Middle College Ceritifaction. However, when I would return back in the fall, I would another slightly alteration to my education and career.
When I had returned back to WCC in the fall of 2020, I quickly realized that I no longer wished to pursue computer science. I am a person who needs a career
that interacts with clients instead of just sitting on a desk and coding all day, so I decided to change my career from computer science to information systems.
Furthermore, I find that web developing comes more intuatively than C++, so I will continue to pursue it on my own as I have already applied for Eastern as well as
Wayne State, and will choose a school to go this summer.
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