Ramneek's Blog

IT Intern I'm graduating this year, so I am applying for jobs. It isn't very fun and it’s certainly not something I look forward to doing but I still   get on with it. Usually, there's an experience section where I must put in what I did. In this section I talk about the jobs I have had and the most recent one I put is IT Intern at Lavner Education. Now, IT is something that scares people when they hear about it. They think of "phone in a bag of rice" or complex lines of code, but I can tell you that IT is not complex lines of code. Any IT position can be boiled down to three main sub-jobs: • The Detective • The Sculptor • The Magician The Detective Most of the time if a person sits down to write code, they are bound to make a mistake. After all, it’s only human to make a mistake. Now if you try to run your code you will get an error. This error is generated by something called a compiler. You can think of a compiler like a translator between the code that y...

I come from a small sub-urban city fifteen minutes south of Stockton and an hour and a half east of San Francisco called Manteca. Before that I lived in Hayward, a city about thirty-five minutes south-east of San Francisco. Hayward is known as the 'Heart of the Bay' but it rarely feels that way and it certainly did not feel like it when I immigrated. I left Punjab, a state in the north-west of India, in 2012. My parents told me that we were moving so my older brother and I could have more opportunities and get a higher level of education than what was available to us in Punjab.  Beyond getting into college, there was no objective or goal that my parents had told me about. Whenever someone asked me what I would do after high school I told them I wanted to go to college and if they asked me what I would do, I told them business. But, no one hands you a business to run and thus I switched to computer science.  With the job market being as tough as it is, where I'm going is unc...