Oh my goodness. It is officially my last week as a Cerner intern. sad face When I began the internship, I had a pretty good idea of what to expect, especially since half of my friends work for Cerner. The internship is going to start off slow with orientation and a few tours. Then, I’ll be thrown right into a project and I’ll learn how to be big girl developer. Pretty chill.

A little over a year ago, I was a relatively new developer. I was really enthusiastic and passionate about improving my coding skills, especially in the areas of web and mobile development. Even though I was in school for Computer Science, the curriculum doesn’t exactly teach you how to develop real life applications. All we learn about are data structures and algorithms. LOTS OF THEM. I was 100% sure that I will not go to graduate school (at least, not in the next few years), and as much as I enjoyed learning about data structures, I didn’t feel like I was well-prepared for a job.

We all can agree that JavaScript can be a huge pain sometimes (ok, maybe all the time). It’s constantly changing and there are a lot of nuances with its methods. A couple years ago, I was introduced to ES6 and all of its awesome new features, particularly its new iterative methods like some(), filter(), indexOf() and a few others. Learning these methods made my JavaScript life a little bit sweeter.