Day In The Life Of A Lambda School Student

I’ve been attending Lambda School for just under nine weeks now and I believe it is one of the most amazing programs that I have ever been a part of. It removes the expense of college while also adding infinitely more value to the overall experience of becoming a software engineer.

Let’s go through a day in the life of a Lambda School student and I’ll break it down for you, in detail. If you’d like, you can watch the video version of this article on youtube, here or in the video featured above.

Morning Routine

Since Lambda School is a West Coast institution, I’m on their time instead of Central Time. This means that instead of school starting at 8:00 AM and ending at 5:00 PM, I start school at 10:00 AM and end at 7:00 PM. I typically try to wake up at 9:00 AM; however, I’m hoping to change that to between 4:00–5:00 AM because I believe that’s a better schedule to have, plus Casey Neistat does it and explains it here so I figured I’d give it a shot!

From 10:00–11:00 AM it’s pre-lecture time at Lambda School where we look at the training kit to see what’s in store for today and we watch a few pre-recorded videos going over the basics of what we will be learning today. These videos are meant…