If you don't innovate fast, disrupt your industry, disrupt yourself, you'll be left behind. - John Chambers, CEO of Cisco
Ginni Rometty, CEO of IBM, once said: "Growth and comfort do not exist." I was 18 when I got an internship offer at JP Morgan. It was my first taste of corporate America. Being the youngest and most inexperienced intern on the team, I felt more intimidated than excited for this opportunity. And, oftentimes, I felt like an impostor who did not belong in tech.
My best friend, Fatima, and I attended our first hackathon at Princeton. We formed a team with Chelsea (Yale student) and Owen (Princeton student) and coded for 36 hours STRAIGHT. The final product? An app, called iVol, built using Swift. iVol's goal is to get more people involved in their communities by providing easy access to tons of volunteering opportunities near you. At iVol, we encourage giving back to the communities that made us who we are.
P.S. Why is Princeton's campus so much better than Hunter's nonexistent one? I'm so jealous.
In October, I joined student government as a representative for the sophomore class. Within the span of 4 months, I won elections and upgraded to Vice President. How? The power of networking and showing up.
One year ago, I reached out to a Forbes 30 under 30 Nominee and asked to work at her tech education startup. I started off as an instructor and, within a few months, was promoted to hiring manager and operations coordinator. Those roles taught me about the dedication and grit it takes to run a startup.
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Interning at Justworks allowed me to explore uncharted territory as a developer who mainly does frontend work.
I've been at Kodely for more than a year now, teaching kids fundamental concepts in technology and design.
Trained an ML model on a dataset of 5,700 SMS messages, achieving a 98% accuracy rate in distinguishing spam from legitimate messages. Implemented vectorization techniques to convert plain text SMS messages into feature vectors for model comprehension and used Scikit-learn for classification, regression, and anomaly detection.
See ItAs I go through the Headstarter Fellowship, there will be 4 more projects I can showcase soon!