The first day of school always makes me so nervous and I always have a feeling in my gut that I’m going to hate it. I had this feeling with high school and both colleges that I attended. It wasn’t much is a surprise when I did, in fact, hate them all. Lambda was different. My first day at Lambda felt like I belonged because, for the first time in my life, I was actually learning something useful from school.
A video covering my first day of Lambda School:
Let me clarify and give a bit more back story about what I mean. In high school there obviously weren’t options to learn things on a path to becoming a software engineer but I did learn that mitochondria are the powerhouse of the cell…so that was useful! (Not)
In college, I spent two years learning the exact same things that I learned in high school thanks to Gen Ed’s. This was despite the fact that I entered college with 17 credit hours under my belt from…