Coding Bootcamp: Day 2

My Second Day

Two days down, 61 to go (43 of actual class days), and I already miss the first day. Lectures are supposed to be about two hours in length from 10 in the morning until about noon, but Mina talked until 12:30. The last half hour, I kept looking at the top right corner of my laptop, wondering if it was appropriate to pull out my box of Triscuit crackers and tinned oysters and make lunch.

We had a field trip scheduled to MaRS today to check out where the hippest startups hang out, and our departure time was 12:30. So when Mina was cutting it close to leave-time and I hadn't eaten — I can sometimes get a bit kvetchy about when I eat — I was finding it a bit hard to focus on the material. Plus, he was blowing past Ruby control structures at such a breakneck pace, I could barely keep up with typing in the code in terminal and trying to figure out where I was going wrong. Thank god for the TAs, especially Natalie, who've managed to break complex terms down into more understandable ones. I felt a bit mollified learning that my computer was giving them slight fits, too, when I had to resort to the sudo command for about half of what I needed to do.

We had pretty sucky weather today for our field trip, which involved walking almost 2k to the MaRS Discovery District. I'd kinda hoped that with the high price of tuition for this private course, we'd take Uber there, or at least be given subway tokens, but no dice. It was bloody humid with the humidex reaching the mid-30s, and started to rain — and pour — on the way back. Mathusha, Ruby and I straggled behind the others, hoping to avoid the wet splatter that eventually became a 15-minute downpour; Ruby caved and took the subway back from St. Patrick Station, while Mathusha kept me company and we walked the rest of the kilometre-ish back. I felt bad for her because her shoes got soaked and were audibly squeaking; I, on the other hand, was just humid, irritated, sweaty and sticky, and happy that the Thai Express guy let me fill up my bottle with ice-cold water.

I work on classwork when I get home and skipped the "Meet Your Makers" event today (where the previous cohort show off their end-of-term projects to the instructors) to catch up on and improve with Ruby, but it still doesn't seem like there are enough hours in the day. But in a big way, I love that, of being so busy and challenged and stimulated that I have no time to twiddle my thumbs.