The Joy of AH-HA

I've been living at coding house for exactly two weeks now and I'm still completely in love with it. Its hard. The "homework" assignments keep me up until 2:00 AM or later and I'm cramming  knowledge in my brain like Joey Chesnut at a hotdog eating competition (var hotdog = knowledge, var mouth = brain, var JoeyChestnut = boss_ass_motha_fucka)

And I have moments of frustration when I can't wrap my head around a new concept right away, but the struggle only adds fuel to the wonderfully explosive joy of the AH-HA! moment.

I've had a lot of ah-ha's. I've also had a lot of slow creeping "...ohhhh I get it now"s. And perhaps most rewarding, I've had a lot of "Thanks Jillian, the way you just explained that made me get it."

There are too many places where people try to get out of working hard without even realizing that all they are doing is transferring their effort from doing something that might satisfy them to avoiding doing things and therefore not getting a pay out. No one is like that at Coding House. I love that our house is a community. We all help each other and respect each other and work hard.

I can wait to find out what I'll be capable of this time next week!