Christina Holman | Design Blog

iOS app Last weekend, I had the wonderful opportunity to participate in Boston's largest all-female and non-binary hackathon! A group of friends and I wanted to digest as much tech and nerd information as possible, and we basically made it our mission to go to nearly every workshop session offered for two days straight. I don't know how we managed this but we did. From 5p on Friday and all day on Saturday, it seemed I bounced from one room to the next with a nap here and there. There was a workshop on rapid prototyping with AdobeXD -- which I am in love with. Then, I was able to create my first phone application during a workshop on iOS app development with Swift  (it's much easier than I had imagined), followed by a workshop at 2am on Android app developmen t. For my very first hackathon-conference, I wanted to focus on skill development and learning, rather than the competition. However, seeing everyone so wrapped up in their individual designs and programming ...

So, hey... I'm in grad school! Life is going great. Last year -- the year after graduating from Wellesley College -- was a whirlwind, and settling into the world as a post-graduate is much more difficult than I had thought. My sincere apologies to anyone following this blog, only for it to be really left behind. Long story, short: "Christina made into an amazing program at Boston University College of Engineering as a MechE (Mechanical Engineer) -- and she is living her best life!" Yet, if you still want to know what has happened in my life. Let me give you all a short recap of 2017-2018. Last Semester of College (Winter - Spring 2017) I was accepted into the Madeleine Korbel Albright Institute for January 2017. And, it was absolutely phenomenal. Every day was a new topic of contemporary politics and high-profile policies. On top of that, we were also pushed to conduct a rigorous case study in those four weeks. (Take a peek here . ) The administrators (righ...