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Internships, zoom university, Seattle, and hot sauce

Anchita
Jan 3, 2022
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2021 was a pretty eventful year for me with many many firsts.

I had my first “big-kid” internships, attended a huge chunk of university online, stayed in a new city for the summer, moved into my first apartment, started eating kale, and learned how to cook.

🏆 Big Wins

  • Took a gap (spring) quarter to intern as a software engineer at Tesla from January - April

  • Re-elected as president of my baby, Women in Computing @ UCR

  • Raised 1.5 million dollars from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for the Bourns College of Engineering to support women computer science students at UCR

  • Interned as a software engineer and product manager at Microsoft from June - September

  • Guest lectured over 300 students in ENGR101

  • Started my junior year synchronously at UCR

  • Saw my Microsoft intern project get shipped 🚀 check it out here: AKS support for WebAssembly System Interface (WASI) workloads

🌱 New Habits & Experiences

  • Got into podcasts, especially HIBT and the Jay Shetty one

  • Rekindled my love for blogging on this platform, love ya Substack

  • Climbed Mission Peak in the East Bay

  • Moved to Seattle for the summer

  • Took up film photography on a 35mm film camera

  • Went to my first comedy show at the Masonic where I saw Hasan Minhaj

  • Got bangs and long layers and felt like Matilda Djerf for 2 months

💅🏼 Material Girllllll

Favorite things from the year — not sponsored but I wish :///

  • Ultralip in Villa by Glossier

  • FigJam for study groups by Figma

  • Peri-Peri sauce by Trader Joe’s

  • Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid

  • Nanopuff Jacket by Patagonia

  • The entire menu at Piroshky Piroshky in Pike Place Market

  • My parents’ panini press

  • RED (TV) by Taylor Swift

I kept this recap short and sweet because honestly, 2021 felt realllllly short to me so it felt fitting. Looking forward to what’s come in 22!


Stay connected with me on Twitter @anchita_bora for more unfiltered thoughts

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