I'm a current senior in college; I switched my major this time last year (after an internship at an ad agency made me realize a few things about my passions.)

I'm a current senior in college; I switched my major this time last year (after an internship at an ad agency made me realize a few things about my passions.) I'm finishing up the last week of my dream internship at Big Tech, and the swatches of people are incredible. I've met people who were literally programming in middle school (and can't handle dealing with HashMaps) and people who graduated with a PhD in linguistics with no formal CS education (who are much, much, much more talented programmers than I think I'll ever be.) I think I've learned most that programming is a meritocracy. If you try hard -- and really throw yourself at the mercy of the command line -- you'll do great. You are the only thing keeping you from your own success; it's incredibly frightening, but also the best feeling in the world.