Me, Circa Late 2025 Computers have always been in my DNA—my dad graduated from BYU-Idaho in Computer Information Technology and programmed throughout my childhood. While middle and high school computer classes didn't quite capture my imagination, everything changed when I arrived at BYU-I myself.
In an Intro to Programming course, I fell in love with Python. The class taught simple concepts like loops and logic gates, gave us a desired outcome, and granted us unlimited freedom to achieve it. That open-ended puzzle-solving hooked me.
My path wasn't entirely linear; educational hardships initially pushed me away from my dad's exact degree track. However, while serving a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, I found clarity. My mission gave me perspective on what I truly valued in my education, alongside unique opportunities to serve others using my technical instincts. For instance, when a temporary bug in Facebook Messenger began distorting shared links to vital tools like Google Forms and Sheets, I was able to help my friends by manually decrypting the broken links, translating the scrambled hexadecimal values into ASCII characters to recover the usable URLs.
Today, I am pursuing my BS in Web Design & Development.