About

tl;dr I'm a college student blogging about life, coding, and random midnight thoughts.

Check out my personal website here!

(basically tina is me and I am tina)

My first experience of coding outside of class was a hackathon in new york city. I did what any confused, inexperienced girl in a sea of experienced male hackers would do - I pretended to know more than I did, I feigned interest in design and front-end cause none of the guys wanted to do it, and I took a back seat as the rest of them discussed what project we'd embark on. Well, that didn't work out great for me... they kept throwing words at me I didn't know like "bashrc" and "database". Luckily, I ended up pairing with a mentor and building a sinatra app from scratch, and I learned a lot.

A year later, I knew way more than I ever thought I would about the world of coding, open source, and hacking, mostly thanks to an internship I took over the summer at a health tech company. Our main mentor that summer suggested we write a blog, and at first I thought he was crazy. But through reading his I started to think maybe it wasn't such a crazy idea. And so I decided to write a blog, to help people like me who are occasionally helpless and confused, to help myself remember everything I learned, and to teach myself how to teach (and also to have an outlet when its midnight and a thought pops in my head).

I'm currently a sophomore at Williams College, a tiny liberal arts school in western Massachussetts, studying Math and Computer Science (shocker). I was born in Toronto, Canada (aka the 6).

Hopefully I can help some others out there who find themselves in the same confused holes I was before I wrote each of these blog posts :)