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So actually, the first line of code I ever wrote was in a class at USF. It was CS101 with Professor Benson, and it was Learning How to Program in Python. 

A lot of classes, when you do homework you really count the hours that you're working on that assignment. Like, oh, gosh, it's been four or six hours already today. So with that class, I actually lost track of how much time I was spending on it. I just remember having a lot of fun. 

San Francisco is really the heart of Silicon Valley. You can really just put yourself in the middle of it all and experience it while going to school. While I was in school, I went to a lot of meetups and I met many software engineers who are well into their career. 

I work on an e-web operations team at Square. Square is most known for a white reader that you plug into your phone and swipe credit cards. We also build many tools to help businesses grow. I love it. [LAUGHS] I'm so young and so new to this, it's like really key that I stay curious and I still want to learn. And I think USF gave me that drive. 

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