2019. My Year in Review

A 2019 Photo Collage

Holy Frick was 2019 a year!

Every year my Aunt Joan would write up these extensive reviews of her year and that of her immediate family’s. And I thought it was always very cute and thoughtful. So here I am attempting to do the same in digital form… definitely not as sweet as Aunt Joan’s incredible penmanship, which is truly a dying art form.

Where. To. Start?!

Early 2019:

• Finished my Graphic Design internship

• Buried myself in the books to study JavaScript
• Got accepted into the Grace Hopper Program

• Made it through Foundations, Junior Phase, and Senior Phase

• Created projects with group mates that I am immensely proud of:

Claire Filipek | Web Developer

• Started dating someone
• Volunteered at the Lesbians Who Tech Summit

What the Lesbians Who Tech Summit meant to me

• Attended my first Hackathon and created a project with my team that won the People’s Choice Award

My first Hackathon

• Painted a mural

• Got a Front End Web Development Independent Contractor gig

• Got a badass tattoo

• Performed in a comedy show

• Taught 3 coding classes

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Here’s to my accomplishments and here’s to the things I hope to accomplish in 2020: Quitting smoking. For good this time. Getting a full-time Front End Web Development job. Working more on the work/life balance and tackling whatever the new year throws my way.

xoXO,

Claire