To give a brief overview of my background, I started college in 2016 and my mother died a year later which left me without parents. Ended up becoming super depressed and dropped out after getting enough credits to snag an associates degree. I took a few programming courses in college for fun and noticed that I was pretty decent at programming relative to my peers so I decided to give programming a shot after dropping out. I put in a lot of self-study, built out some projects just using the MERN stack, and secured an internship from those projects. I ended up working three different internships before receiving my offer for a software engineering position.
This may sound kind of stupid, but I was making around ten dollars an hour at most of my internships. My last internship ran out of funding and couldn't really pay me so I went out on the job search again. Ended up interviewing for a position that required two years of experience as well as a bachelor's degree. I had four interviews with them, absolutely killed the interviews. I could tell they were interested in me and I got along with them really well. One interview was supposed to last an hour but I ended up spending two hours on the zoom call with him talking about tech. The position is fully remote and pays ~$100k. This feels completely undeserved, I feel like I cheated my way into this or something. Even though there's no evidence for it other than I took a completely different path than most.
Wondering if there's anyone who has had similar experiences? What was it like working for that position once you secured that well-paying job? Did you feel like an impostor? Any advice on how to cope with this? Thanks!
Edit: Thanks so much for all the positive support! I'll be sure to send private messages to anyone if they have any questions.
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Plastic makes up nearly 70% of all ocean litter. Scientists have discovered that microscopic marine microbes are able to eat away at plastic, causing it to slowly break down. Two types of plastic, polyethylene and polystyrene, lost a significant amount of weight after being exposed to the microbes.
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People in higher social class have an exaggerated belief that they are better than others, and this overconfidence can be misinterpreted by others as greater competence, perpetuating social hierarchies, suggests a new study (n=152,661).
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... keep reading on reddit ➡I thought I'd share this even though it's about psychology as p-values, false positives, statistical power, and replicability are frequently discussed here. Interesting to see how recent events are influencing fields.
https://journals.sagepub.com/eprint/HBYrM6bTgz2zGNvHjD6J/full
This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 76%. (I'm a bot)
> Researchers from North Carolina State University have found that an elastic polymer possesses broad-spectrum antimicrobial properties, allowing it to kill a range of viruses and drug-resistant bacteria in just minutes - including methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.
> The researchers tested the polymer against six types of bacteria, including three antibiotic-resistant strains: MRSA, vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium, and carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii.
> When 40% or more of the relevant polymer units contain sulfonic acid groups, the polymer killed 99.9999% of each strain of bacteria within five minutes.
> The researchers also tested the polymer against three viruses: an analog virus for rabies, a strain of influenza and a strain of human adenovirus.
> "While the polymer with lower concentrations of the sulfonic acid groups had no practical effect against human adenovirus, it could destroy 99.997% of that virus at higher sulfonic acid levels."
> When the neutralized polymer is subjected to acid, those functional groups can exchange bound cations with protons from the acid, making the sulfonic acid groups active again - and ready to kill microbial pathogens.
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Hey there! First time posting here I guess. So a bit about myself I'm getting an undegrad in electrical engineering and just about to complete my second semester. I've been really interested in studying physics for a few year now but due to some personal reasons wasn't able to get an undergrad in physics instead. In our first semester we had a course on classical mechanics and in the second semester we're doing electricity and magnetism. I really enjoy them but I want to go a bit farther. By the end of this semester I will be done with multivariable calculus/calc3 and ordinary differential equations.
I want to take it from the start, from classical mechanics work things at my own pace. How much do you think I'll be able to understand without having to know more math than calc 3and odes? I'll be taking linear algebra in the third semester although a i know a bit about matrix multiplication and stuff. Plus any book recommendations? I know of taylor's classical mechanics and griffith's electrodynamics. 🙃Thanks if you got this far.
Given that FYDP is essentially a giant technical report about a chosen problem and solution, can you just use part of your detailed design to write a self-study work term report?
