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My journey through the GL x MIT Applied Data Science Program 🛣️
Hi people, here to tell you about my journey: I didn't know a thing about data science. I was at a crossed path of my life and wanted to pursue my web programming self-course and build my path on cybersecurity, thing that I loved and care about. Applied for many programs, and at a time, an english post caught my attention (english is not my primary language), about data science (algo was recommending web dev and cybersecurity at that time), and I applied because "you miss every shot, you don't take" They called me back, I was surprised, wasn't expecting that (I mean, they would, but I didn't believe). At the end of it, it was intriguing and ask to know more. I chose this program over all the other, it was way more interesting. The person who called me was really helpful, thanks again 🙂 The course was great. At first, it was slow, I had some time for myself; then, it moved faster after 3 weeks, and even faster for the last month. I literally lived for this each day when I woke up. The experts who spoke during live classes were really driven by their subjects and I could tell they mastered them. I met people I like there, their advice saved me multiple times. The staff is there to answer to our questions (especially Ritin, really efficient). I really enjoyed my journey, I was afraid at first because I thought 12 weeks was short for a new field, especially a field with higher math (higher than high school), but they assured me with work, it will go smoothly, and they were right. Also, I really enjoyed the questions from the quizzes, because answers WITH explanations were given at the end, explanations are really important. And the best part, the project we had to deliver. Theory is good, hand-on practice is better, in my opinion. Thank you Great Learning team for your dedication, thank you M.I.T people for your work and time, I now added more tools in my box to build myself, and more ideas popped and I'm really excited to apply it all and learn more ! I must admit, the AI part was something that caught me really hard, because I wanted to do that long time ago along with cybersecurity and web development, but heard math was really important in it, so I gave up on that path. Appreciations 🙃 Drink water daily, eat what you like, be responsible, be a kind, just be a respectable human 🙂 Hope my block helped you, thanks for reading me if you made it so far ! Stay on the path of learning ! 🧠 Keep growing ! 📈 Take care✌️