Beefing It

Realizing you’ve bit off more than you can chew is a hard (meal-sized) pill to swallow.

At the beginning of December, I graduated from Flatiron School’s software engineering program. I was proud of the accomplishment, but feeling a lot of shame and embarrassment over the state of my final project. It just wasn’t something I was proud of. I was proud of a lot: what I’d learned, all the hard work I put into the bootcamp, and the four other projects I completed beforehand. But I simply wasn’t excited about the prospect of showing off my big final project to anyone, least of all potential employers. I was, in a…