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Diane Pap @mom • Jan 4, 1995

Just had a baby!

Charles Pap @dad • Jan 4, 1995

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Diane Pap @mom • Feb 4, 1995

Sylvia just said her first word! It was "accessibility"

Sylvia @sylviapap • Jul 4, 1995

hello world

Sylvia @sylviapap • Jul 4, 1995

im baby

Sylvia @sylviapap • Feb 4, 2000

i am a child computer prodigy

*types rosebud into the sims*

Sylvia @sylviapap • Nov 1, 2004

learning HTML on Neopets - so fun!

Sylvia @sylviapap • Dec 12, 2004

me explaining neopets to my parents and other kids in 4th grade

Sylvia @sylviapap • Jan 15, 2005

neopets doesnt seem like something that normal kids do so i think ill give it up for now. maybe try a 'sport'

Sylvia @sylviapap • Sep 1, 2007

who knew html would be so useful for myspace?

Sylvia @sylviapap • Jan 1, 2009

rip myspace, hello facebook :/ not the biggest fan. too many signup questions. like why do they need to know my age? or blood type, and политическая принадлежность?

Sylvia @sylviapap • Jan 1, 2010

my high school giving us one class called 'computer applications' where we learn how to open excel, but 10 different classes in agricultural science and FFA

Sylvia @sylviapap • Sep 22, 2013

excited for college!

Sylvia @sylviapap • Sep 23, 2013

spoke too soon

Sylvia @sylviapap • Mar 20, 2014

me, seeing 'comp sci 101' in the course catalog: great! a class for beginners

uchicago:

Sylvia @sylviapap • Mar 21, 2014

professor: java is one of the most important programming languages-

me: im going to need JAVA to get through this morning haha

professor:

kid next to me already applying to google internships:

me:

Sylvia @sylviapap • Mar 23, 2014

i would like to inform the haters that i have dropped comp sci 101

Sylvia @sylviapap • Jan 1, 2016

might just f around and major in philosophy

Sylvia @sylviapap • Nov 8, 2016

ok guess im going to dedicate my life to politics, human rights law, and apocalypse prepping

Sylvia @sylviapap • Jan 15, 2017

me: i love this class on formal logic. wondering if i should have majored in math? 'A if and only if B,' am i right?

them: ma'am, this is a wendys

Sylvia @sylviapap • Aug 1, 2017

yesterday, undergrad. today, paralegal. tomorrow,

Sylvia @sylviapap • Jan 29, 2018

after watching one khan academy video on cryptography

Sylvia @sylviapap • Mar 5, 2018

yall mind if i... quit my job and go back to school

Sylvia @sylviapap • Sep 21, 2018

those who do not study history are doomed to probably be pretty happy actually because history is horrible why am i here

Sylvia @sylviapap • Jul 9, 2019

took a DNA test turns out im 100% addicted to twitter

team of doctors surrounding me: yes its actually quite concerning

Sylvia @sylviapap • Aug 17, 2019

you dont know sacrifice until youve gotten a couple hundred likes on a tweet about game of thrones, then deleted your account so you could focus on grad school

Sylvia @sylviapap • Oct 1, 2019

finishing an IR masters in london then moving to mexico to teach math like

Sylvia @sylviapap • Oct 15, 2019

im so influenced by tv. watching grey's anatomy? im a doctor. suits? lawyer. silicon valley? let me try learning to code for the millionth time

Sylvia @sylviapap • Oct 20, 2019

`hello world` my old friend

Sylvia @sylviapap • Oct 21, 2019

intro to html & javascript? havent heard that name in years

Sylvia @sylviapap • Oct 22, 2019

ok, ill bite. what is 'imposter syndrome'

Sylvia @sylviapap • Oct 29, 2019

just typed into terminal and it showed up on the browser so i think its safe to say

Sylvia @sylviapap • Nov 6, 2019

career quiz: be computer scientist

me: haha wow thanks but i am not smart enough for that

coursera ad: you can become a professor in literally anything for free

me: well i am a gentlewoman and a scholar. but its too late

youtube suggestion: Why It's Never Too Late For a Coding Bootcamp

Sylvia @sylviapap • Nov 6, 2019

just had the spontaneous epiphany that my calling in life is technology and coding

Sylvia @sylviapap • Nov 6, 2019

maybe i CAN do it, and maybe ill even enjoy it, but will i be good at it?

stack overflow: no

me:

Sylvia @sylviapap • Dec 1, 2019

explaining to friends and family why i have decided to go back to yet another form of school and do a coding bootcamp

my parents, supporting whatever i do as long as i can help with the printer

Sylvia @sylviapap • Jan 27, 2020

wow, i am absolutely in love with my coding bootcamp, the city of san francisco, and this wework building. sure hope nothing major happens in the next couple of months to disrupt this exciting city tech life

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