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Category: College Decisionator
Everything you missed…
Hello Everyone! My name is Birizibe. If you’ve read my posts on the Honor’s Blog before, then welcome back! I’m happy that you’re here again. If you haven’t, then welcome! I will be posting a few of these throughout the semester, and I hope you stick around. It’s been a while since I did one…
The End of An Amazing Experience
I can hardly believe it myself, but my journey with The College Decisionator is officially coming to a close. While I will always remember the many experiences this internship has given me, I will be sad to be leaving my work and collaborators on this app. A key takeaway I have had is to think…
Finishing the College Decision
I learned a lot from my time working on The College Decisionator. Before this project, I had never done any design or programming work in a professional setting. Working on a real product in a small team was a much different experience than developing personal projects on my own. I feel that while I learned…
Finishing Touches
This is our mock income statement. This screenshot comes from Year 1 of our moderate growth scenario.
Halfway Point
The College Decisionator App is at a crucial inflection point. The team has been working hard to reach our deadlines in order to deliver the best MVP we can by the final due date. Currently, my work mainly resides with developing the commercialization plan. Our founders gave me a great suggestion to create a 5-year…
All the Moving Pieces
On October 1st, when I completed my first reflection on The College Decisonator internship, I wasn’t entirely sure what my role on the team would look like. I wasn’t sure what I would gain from the experience, but I was receptive to everything. There are still many unanswered questions and things I don’t know. However,…
A User’s Experience of The College Decision
It’s been well over a month since I started working on The College Decisionator. Though it’s been challenging to rise to the tasks at hand, adapt to the internship’s workflow, and learn new skills quickly, I’m happy to say that the project is proceeding very well. Since we started on The College Decisionator, we’ve been…
Building an App in Three Months
We’re now well into our journey at the College Decisionator, building the best app we can for high school students! It’s exciting to see how things are actually coming together now. In my first post, I was still not completely sure of how we were going to actually come up with a MVP, or minimum…
Excitement and Strategy > Fear and Uncertainty
Excitement and Strategy > Fear and UncertaintyHello! My name is Arjun and I’m a junior here at Pitt. I study bioengineering, and I’ve loved all the time I’ve spent researching and studying ways to improve the health care field through engineering. So, how did I end up at the College Decisionator? I don’t know much…