February is short so I waited a bit longer to write this one.

Highlights:

Clubs:

Girls Who Code:

• We passed our first round to become a senate recognized club on campus! Next, we will host more events on campus to prove to Senate that we are needed club/college loop on campus.
• Follow Lehigh’s Girls Who Code LinkedIn Page

J.M. Ent.

• Just finished filming one of our covers!! Look forward to it soon~
• Follow JM Ent’s Instagram Page

Classes/Courses:

Business Classes:

• Strategic Management: This course is a business capstone. I was grateful to be appointed as CEO for my team and I can say that our team has a great dynamic and our Q4 results showed exactly that. We came in first for the simulation!
• Cloud Computing for Business: This course covers Cloud Computing, focusing on AWS. I’ve always been interested in Cloud Computing but never knew enough to know if I wanted to pursue it professionally. I still don’t fully know yet, but I can say I really love this course. So far, we covered Networking, Security, and the Global Infrastructure. We had a few quizzes and have a midterm coming up so that’ll be interesting…

Computer Science Classes:

• Computer Science Projects: This course is a less structured course. My partner and I work on a personal project during this time and receive course credit for it. We’re still in the pre-planning stage of the project with project artifacts, but hopefully, we can start coding in a few weeks.

Writing Classes:

• Computing Ethics: This course is not really a programming course, it’s actually a writing course. I’ve written my first position paper critiquing the Social Dilemma (on Netflix). I enjoyed watching and writing about the movie. I hope to put up some of my writing on my website if I do well in the course.
• Women and Gender Studies: I’m taking this course as my Social Science elective. The professor is great and the workload for this class is relatively light. We’ve covered gender, sexuality, and feminism/patriarchy so far and it’s been great connecting with other students in the class.

Career/Professional Development

• I’m tutoring 5th grade reading through Teach for America Ignite Fellowship program. Since they were on winter break, I’ve only tutored one week so far. The students are engaged and I forgot how much I liked tutoring/teaching students even if the early morning schedule is physically more demanding…
• I attended my first pre-hire event with Liberty Mutual Insurance!! It was cool seeing new interns and also one of my previous co-workers from my internship last summer! There’s another one in March, so I’m looking forward to it!
• I was invited to an all expenses paid trip to Goldman Sachs HQ in April so I’m looking forward to that as well!

So how am I de-stressing?

• Dance and Sleep are still my main de-stressers so that hasn’t changed. I joined a new dance team: Helius! Follow them too, on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/helius_official/
• Swimming and Ice Skating: I’m alternating between ice skating and swimming every week!
• Working on my spiritual health so I’m mentally/physically more prepared for full-time work in a few months!
• Hanging out with friends every weekend!

What are my next steps?

Here are some things I am looking forward to in 2025!

• CSE 217: Computer Science Projects: I’ve always wanted to start a computer science project but rarely had time to do so with my rigorous work and school schedule. This semester, that self-paced project will be part of a course!
• JM: It’ll be my last semester in the dance club so I’m looking forward to the performances and dance covers.
• Graduating, starting a new job, and moving to a new city!!

Six months down, 3 more to go. Since spring break is in March, month 7 is going to fly-by! Look forward to my update for month 7 out of 9!