Hi.
Welcome back to eat your crust podcast.
I'm Crystal.
I'm Jisoo.
And I'm Mike.
So today we have on our good friend from college, Mike.
And the reason we wanted to have Mike on was to talk about coding boot camps.
Coding boot camps have been a really great way for a lot of people to break into tech without having to go through the traditional four year your college path, where you have to be a CS major or a data science major or et cetera.
And Mike was actually one of the first people I know who actually went through that entire bootcamp process.
I think Mike was ahead of our time or everyone's time.
I feel like in recent years, there's been a lot more talk about trying to do these different boot camps, not even just coding boot camp.
I know there's some that have been popping up for, like, ux design, just these kinds of, like, careers where you don't necessarily need to go through, like, four years of schooling again, but can somehow go through, like, a condensed, intensive boot camp in order to switch careers, basically.
So, Mike, I guess we can begin this by you sharing how and why did you initially decide to go to boot camp?
The short story was that at UCSD, when I was there, I was paying out of state tuition.
Basically, after middle school, my family moved to Taiwan, and they sold the house in the Bay Area.
What happened was, actually, during my time outside of the US, I actually lost California residency, and it's actually a really difficult process to regain that residency.
So during my time at UCSD, the entire time, I was paying out of state tuition, which is basically like double the in state tuition.
And then the other thing was that I actually went into UCSD undeclared, and I wasn't able to get into the CS major because it was so impacted.
So it was kind of like a perfect storm of reasons as to why I eventually dropped out and did a boot camp.
Yeah, I think what you brought up about the computer science major at UCSD is kind of interesting.