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What did you hear from people who were opposite ends of the spectrum from you? What would it require for you to give someone else what they needed to be at their best?
- I think the most prevelant thing I heard was the idea that just because an introvert is sitting quietly, that does not mean they are not motivated, do not understand, or don't have an opinion. It simply means that they might be processing a thought. I also heard that sometimes introverts do step out of their boundaries, but they most of the time need to step back into introversion to recharge. I see this a lot in my brother with how he deals with groups of people.
- Slowing down is definitely required! Taking the time to let the other party process and not moving at an extremely fast pace. No bulldozing!
How can you leverae your place on the spectrum of introversion/extroversion to impact your career in the future?

I think I fall somewhere in between depending on the situations. I can be extroverted when I feel the need

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What brought you here to Turing and this new career?

I was uncertain of what to do. I thought architecture was something I was interested in enought to pursue. Turns out architecture sucks. My friend, Julian had always told me to try out coding. And now, here we are.

What lenses or identities do you view the world through most often?

Possible examples: gender, ethnicity, family, birthplace, culture, parental status, etc.
All of them. Depends on the situation, place, time, etc... Most of the time, I try not to view the world through any lense though. Start from scratch and accept things as they come. Adapt yourself so that you can empathize and understand where someone is coming from even if you have no idea what that feels like.

What are the values that drive you?

Hard-working but smart work. Acceptance. Vulnerability. Humility. Kindness. Calmness.

How do you think you demonstrate those values to people around you?

What surprised you?
- Probably the most surprising thing to me was the defined and huge difference between the percentage of women who were falling out of computer science jobs after 10 years versus men
How similar or different are you experiences to the ones shared?

I had a very different experience in the architecture firm that I worked in, although this is not the norm in architecture.

Why does diversity matter for innovation, your career, and the future of our country?
What more do we need to do at Turing to create an inclusive envrionment?

Strengths & Storytelling Reflection Guidelines

Build on your professional story by thinking about how you're progressing at Turing. Answer the questions below in your own gist to use your StrengthsFinder themes to add to your story:

Look at your initial StrengthsFinder reflection that you completed in week 1 -- how have your perceptions of the top 5 themes stayed the same? How have they changed?

To be honest, my perception of them has not changed much. This is mostly because I consider myself to be very much all 5 of my StrengthsFinder themes. I would like to point to one, though, that I wrote about in the first week: Achiever. It has become obvious that I am indeed an achiever and have probably gotten more so in the last year or so. One thing still remains the same though, described in this quote, "First, it’s good because you live in pursuit of the perpetual challenge. But in the second place, you never feel as though you’ve reached your goal. It can keep you running uphill at seventy miles an hour f

Name of contact

"The mentor (or alum) I contacted is Julian Katz" Date of contact

"A While Ago" Outcome (i.e., did you get a response? If not, what is your follow-up plan? Did you meet? When? What was the result?)

Julian, who is a developer in Denver for Aetna, is a close friend of mine. He has been and will continue to mentor me through the program and most likely afterwards. We meet often for lunch and talk about various developer topics: my projects, the tech industry, his job/work, professional development strategies, and coding in general.

(What project management strategies did you use in your projects this module? What went well? What would you do differently next time?)

I think the most important project management strategy/agile practice that came up during our projects was "Welcome changing requirements, even late in development. Agile processes harness change for the customer's competitive advantage." During the Game-Time project, Jack and I front-loaded the project because we knew that Jack would be gone over the weekend and not able to do any work. Because of this heavy front-loading, we made some choices that ultimately required us to make some big changes to code that was actually already working. It became important for us to realize that sometimes change is necessary. Sometimes if you allow for change, better results happen. During the rest of the module, our class also participated heavily in the principle of "The best architectures, requirements, and designs emerge from self-organizing teams." For the algorithms and complete-

Feedback II Reflection • Date of feedback conversation: 7/20/2017 • How did you prepare for the conversation?  - During the project, I took a few notes on things that were working as a pair and things that were not. I also took some time after the project was finished to collect my thoughts and figure out which were important to present to Jack. • How did the conversation go for you? What was easy about the conversation? What was more difficult? - The conversation went very well. I think both of us are very open people both in receiving feedback and giving it. So the conversation as a whole was easy. I always have a hard time when pairings go really well finding things to talk about. But Jack helped spur that conversation. We agreed that most everything went well. There were two major takeaways: first, that I definitely like to be a driver, but sometimes I need to allow for that to switch and second, because Jack and I were committed to the project fully, we did some amazing work. I think that what

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	Feedback III Reflection
	What are you doing well as a pair programmer and collaborator? How do you use your strengths as a team member?
	- In my StrengthsFinder assessment, I received two types that I think became very apparent during this Mod: Achiever and Learner.
	Both of these two basically go hand in hand which could be seen in every project I've worked on this Mod. In particular, during Game-Time, because we front-loaded the project
	we almost had to learn before we actually learned in class. This took both strengths to accomplish. I was able to use both of these for my team's advantage because they are engrained in me so heaavily.
	I also am analytical ALL OF THE TIME. Working with this personality instead of fighting against usually means coming out with better thought out code and understanding of the processes that are going on.

	How would you like to continue to develop your strengths?
	- I have always been under the thought that you should work on your weaknesses, but after being at Turing, I've realize