techgalogy-blog
techgalogy-blog
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24 year old girl entering the Tech Industry as an Electrical Engineer graduate. Microsoft Employee as of 2/6/17 =]
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techgalogy-blog · 9 years ago
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Crazed with blinded, uncharted emotion I fall to the grasps of mindless devotion Hold on to me darling, Like no one's around And together, we both, shall come tumbling down
Saraida Holguin
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techgalogy-blog · 9 years ago
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Went to an art show in West Palm today. I had a lot of fun imitating some of the art work. I'll definitely miss south Florida when I move to Dallas! I finally decided on my renters insurance, electricity and lease. Now I just have to figure out my insurance and I'm good to go! Oh, and I should probably get furniture sometime soon. I think I'm going to wait until I'm actually in Dallas so I have a better sense of the space in my apartment. I'm looking forward to having my own place!
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techgalogy-blog · 9 years ago
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Move out before 25
So you just graduated college. You're stoked about finally starting life as an adult and doing adult-like things like balancing a checkbook and looking up recipes. You and your friends are all talking about your hypothetical futures, wondering if any of you will end up in the same town. This feels like the beginning of your adult life, you can't wait to move out. Before making your move, you should get a job. Just send your resume to as many places as you can, and someone will call you back eventually, right? For the sake of this hypothetical situation, let's pretend everything is going smooth. Let's assume you got a job. You're waiting to finally get settled in and have some money in your savings account before looking at apartments. As your savings account starts looking more attractive, so does that 2016 Acura you wanted. Eh, moving out can wait until you buy the car. This sets you back a bit in terms of savings but for sure after a few months you'll be ready to make the move. Typically here is where you start to get comfortable. You get use to coming home to home cooked meals, accustomed to having miscellaneous things paid for, and to limited responsibility. The thought of moving out starts becoming a bigger deal to you than it was a few years ago. You start thinking that maybe when you're ready to settle down and move in with your significant other is when you should start considering apartments. This surprisingly happens to a lot of people. Many people I know stay with their parents well past the child expiration date (adulthood happened years ago). I turned 24 in November and now is when I'm officially moving out. Granted, I lived on campus for about a year and spent a summer living in NY for an internship, but "home" was always my parents' house. In my opinion, by latest age 25 you need to be out of your parents' house, and this is why: 1) You need to learn responsibility. Being on your own teaches you how to make tough decisions, have daily obligations, etc. Things you want to depend on someone else for, but can't. 2) After a certain age your parents think you're annoying. They want "me" time too. Not being able to go out for dinner because they know you'll be home later and hungry, is a burden on them. Despite how many times they say that they want to, they'd rather be eating that lobster that they didn't boil themselves all day. 3) If they don't think you're annoying, you'll think they're annoying because they might low key try to live vicariously through you. You'll find them trying to make decisions for you that you don't want them to even share their opinion on. 4) You're expensive. Children aren't suppose to be so expensive. You're a few years past the child budget limit. 5) When you finally move in with someone, you'll already know what you like in a home and what you don't like. You will be able to discuss these things upfront and avoid future confrontations. 6) You want to have alone time to explore who you are and learn more about things that you like. 7) You're lazier when you're living with your parents. Your drive is lower because you know you won't find yourself homeless, worst case scenario. You have no furniture or credit to worry about losing, it's just you. 8) Your relationship with your parents turns into a friendship when you move out. They no longer have you there all the time so when you call them, they're very happy to hear from you and you're very happy to hear them. 25 is the absolute limit to me, but if you can make it out with a career by 21, more power to you.
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techgalogy-blog · 9 years ago
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I'm definitely going to miss all of the exotic restaurants in Miami when I move! Peruvian food is amazing ^_^
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techgalogy-blog · 9 years ago
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i feel bad for math. its such a calm and friendly discipline full of beautiful and complex patterns and theres absolutely nothing inherently bad or oppressive about it but ppl treat it as though its evil and malicious. a lot of pure math lacks any kind of practical application or end goal, and just exists for the sake of stimulating peoples minds and pushing the limits of the medium as far as is possible. much like almost every kind of art
math means u no harm friends
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techgalogy-blog · 9 years ago
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Apartment Hunting
Since November I’ve been making a list of apartments that I would move into in Dallas. The list was so ridiculously long (considering I didn’t know much about different areas so the locations were all over the place), and the fact that Dallas has SO many apartments made it all the more difficult. The first week of this month I managed to narrow my list down. I didn’t really have many guidelines to picking an apartment at first, but towards the end of my research I managed to narrow down certain things that i really wanted for my apartment. Like I said there are A LOT of apartments in Dallas and they are still building more, so the pickier you are the easier it will be to narrow it down to a few choices. There are many things to consider, but the following is what I took into consideration:
Commute to work 
This was important to me because I did not want to drive over ten minutes to work. I figured that since I’d be driving to work 5 days a week, that I wanted to make the trip as enjoyable as possible. Regardless the city is just 10-20 minutes away if i ever wanted to go out there during a weekday.
Crime in the area
I used an Irving public records site that showed crime in each area and eliminated the neighborhoods that were a little fishy. Since I’d be living by myself, I wanted to reduce my chances of ending up in a bad neighborhood
Security
Some sort of security was good. Either a gated community or gated buildings worked for me. Something to ensure that residents were the ones accessing the living area. Having only resident access to parking was a plus
Layout
Narrowing this down is important because if not, you’re going to be looking at apartments for the rest of your life. I decided I wanted the following:
An open floorplan where the living room is open to the kitchen
An island in the kitchen because since it would just be me, i wouldn’t need to get a dining room. An island also gives a more open floorplan as opposed to the L shaped counters
No dining room. I found these to be a waste of space since I’d be eating in the kitchen anyway. I considered using this area as an office, but the open floorplans allow for a desk in the area that you would put your dining table anyway.
Stainless steel appliances were important since the apartments with older appliances ended up costing about the same as stainless steel appliances so might as well be picky about it
A balcony with storage where i could keep my bike and other storage like things that i’d hate to just see in my apartment all the time
Preferably not rugged anywhere but rug in the room is acceptable. I get bad allergies so i prefer not having rug anywhere, but considering I'd be in an apartment if i don’t have rug in my room that means the person above me doesn’t have rug in their room and they can stomp around all night and day and wake me up.
Nice closet space
A Newer apartment
The new ones are going for about the same price as the ones made in like 2008, so might as well just have a new one that was made keeping sound travel in mind
Ratings
Most of the ratings online averaged about a 2/3, but there were a few that averaged around 4/5. Reading these reviews allowed me to make some final eliminations.
Once I narrowed down a smaller list of apartments, I was set to fly out and check them out. Some places are nice enough to actually go into the apartment you’d be getting and record a video for you. This is actually very nice of them and something to keep in mind when considering how responsive the staff is.  Once I was in Dallas checking out apartments, they all looked the same. Since I had already narrowed it down to EXACTLY what I wanted they pretty much all looked the exact same. So now there are new things to consider:
Package delivery
Are packages delivered to the apartment door or to the office? Some apartments had packages thrown in front of the door and that was something i did NOT want since I’m a big online shopper
Parking
You don’t want to have just one space per apartment. There will be nowhere to park by 6.
Amenities 
Might as well be picky about this.
Friendliness/responsiveness of staff
These will be the people you have to call when something goes wrong in your apartment. It would really suck if they didn’t show up to fix your A/C during the summer. 
Specials/offers
There are many places that offer the first month free (because they are so new) or some money off your rent for working for a certain company, free parking, etc. Take advantage!
Availability of shopping plazas
I personally don’t want to drive 10-15 minutes to get to a supermarket.
Condition of the apartment
Some drawers and stoves were destroyed in some apartments. They claimed that they would be fixed but it’s better to just avoid these. It’s good to check out the actual construction, like how well the floors are, if there is any seperation on the walls and cabinets, etc.
Cleanliness 
Some complexes are pretty gross when you go in person. You pay for valet trash but they leave it there for like three days.
Bugs
I was shown an apartment with about 50 dead roaches in one of the tubs. The lady who was touring deepl apologized and said they had just fumidated and that’s why they were all dead. But that means that the apartment has an infestation problem and I’d rather avoid that headache.
Whether you were shown the EXACT apartment you’d be moving into or not
Some are in better condition than others.
The apartment I decided on had all this and more. They even offered a 48-hour guarantee of responding to maintenance requests or you’d get free days off your rent for every day they are behind.  It’s crazy how picky I got when considering the apartment, but if I wasn’t picky it would have been an even bigger headache! There were just too many apartments to choose from, so I just focused on finding one that had everything I wanted and there were plenty within my price range that had everything and more. 
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techgalogy-blog · 9 years ago
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This whole planner thing is making me more excited than it should, but it’s incredible how much more productive you feel when you write out your day. I’ve always been one to use my phone calendar or reminder, but having a written schedule makes your entire life more personable. I know this sounds dramatic but hear me out ^_^. All through college I snoozed most of the events I had set up for myself on my phone. Most of the time because I was surprised by the alert when my phone notified me that I had thirty minutes until _______. Having my schedule written out for me just allows me to foresee what is going to happen throughout my week. It allows me to get excited for it since I know it’s happening. And if not, I’m able to call out of something, with time, if I feel like I won’t get to it. It even makes me want to clean my room to keep the whole “order” thing going. I’ve even scheduled things in my week because the stickers I bought told me to do so. Honestly, one of my stickers has a checkbox for glasses of water a day. Now i have to drink glasses. Obvs. Can't just not cross out the glasses and then look back on it next month and think I didn't make it. Now this is to test myself. Proving to myself that I'm able complete it. There are many stickers like this, if you don't have them, just set goals yourself. I'm aware that this sounds crazy, but if I had to recommend one thing to a new professional, right now, it would be planner.
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techgalogy-blog · 9 years ago
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Adulthood
Yesterday I decided to finally become an adult. At 24 I feel like it’s the appropriate time. I graduated, I’m moving, I have a wonderful boyfriend, and I’m starting my first job as a graduate. There are a few things I’m currently doing to get me through this whole “adolescence to adulthood” thing that I’m going through and I’m going to share them with you all in an oversized blog entry.
First thing I did was join classPass. I know that eventually my body is not going to metabolize food as quickly as it does now, but I want to make sure that I ALWAYS stay in shape. I’ve always looked pretty fit since I’ve never stopped dancing, but I want to get my cardiovascular health on check since I’m an adult now and those kind of things are important. So I joined classpass to get a feel of the different kinds of studios that are out there (i.e. yoga, kickboxing, pole dancing, sculpting, etc.). I personally would not stay with a classpass membership for more than the 3 months I got for 50% off (I think $110 a month for 10 classes is a bit pricey), but it was a great option for me with the 50% off promo they had going on in order to jump into the fitness game. 
Second, I binge watched “The Flash”. Irrelevant but wow, great show. First two seasons are on Netflix and some of the episodes from season 3 are on The CW website. The episodes missing, you’ll have to find on your own 0_o.
Third I bought a planner. I use to LOVE planners. We all remember getting a planner on the first day of Kindergarten and writing in it every day. Whether it be homework, notes, or reminders, we had it all in there. This followed us through middle school and high school (ehh sort of) and then kind of fell off in college. At least I fell off the whole planner thing through college. I’d sort of just scribble my assignments on whatever notebook I had for the class and then use my google drive to store anything else I might need. But the other day my sister came home with something called “The Happy Planner”. If you know me, I’m not a fan of anything that screams “HAPPY! PINK! CUTE!”, but for whatever reason, I really enjoyed this planner. I kicked myself for it really, but something about the positivity and being pumped for your week sent a good message to me. It made looking at my week exciting since it has a bunch of tacky stickers that you can put all over it to whisper words of positivity into your subconscious as you add your tasks for the week. I thought it was brilliant. So I rekindled that love that I once had for planners and bought myself the happy planner. I’m not refusing to use technology (i.e. phone calendar, google calendar, wunderlist, etc.), but having your week in writing is more personal.
Fourth thing I did was stalk Simon Sinek. I checked out most of his youtube videos where he basically points out all the flaws that we have as millenials and makes you feel some type of way about it to the point that you stop using your phone and create a blog (might vary from person to person). Listen, there is so much truth to what he says. We are very dependent on our phones. If we have a brief moment of solitude we try to fill it with whatever we can find on a social network to avoid being alone with ourselves. It’s very pathetic of us. So I agree with most (some don’t apply to me) of the things he says. I even bought his book “Start With Why” today. I’ll let you know what wisdom was shed upon me after I read it.
Fifth, I bought a camera. This has nothing to do with adulthood I just bought a camera and I thought I’d share it with everyone. It’s my first camera, a Sony a6000, and I love it. I plan on reviewing it after I’ve had it for about a week or so.
Sixth, I’m getting rid of most of my things. I honestly don’t need a huge wardrobe of clothes that I never use. If I don’t love a piece, I’m donating it. Since I’m moving, every article of clothing that I take needs to be important. If not, it’ll just be taking space up in my car for the move. Surprisingly one can make do without a different shirt for every occasion, or a dress that no one has seen every time you go out. Who cares. I’ve decided to rock what makes me feel good and look good to myself. 
There are still many things that I’m going to add to this list. And who knows, maybe one day I’ll actually have mastered this transition and be able to give actual advice. Until then, I am just sharing what’s getting me by. Cheers.
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techgalogy-blog · 9 years ago
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Jan 6, 2017
This year I thought it would be a  good idea to put down my phone more. I just graduated last month and since then I’ve found it easier to be on my phone than actually doing things on my downtime. Don’t get me wrong, I still have managed to practice my guitar, do yoga, hang out with my boyfriend, etc. - but I could be doing a lot more. During my last semesters in school, I didn’t really feel like I practiced much of my hobbies. Granted I was studying Electrical Engineering and had dance performances on the weekends, but I still didn’t find that I made the most of my downtime. Sometimes I’d wake up and because I started my morning scrolling through Social media, I didn’t get the most of my day. This year I have a lot of new things going for me: I start my first job as a professional - an Engineer at Microsoft, I move from South Florida to Dallas, and I’m finally not a student. These are huge moves for me, and my first step is to deprioritize my phone. 
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