The Day I Stared at a Screen, Terrified

Let me paint you a picture. Six months ago, I couldn’t tell Python from a snake. Bioinformatics? A fancy word I’d picked because I loved genetics, not algorithms. Fast-forward to today: I’m an Intern at Quantcure, a biotech startup.,four months before Bversity’s official internship phase began.

How? Let me tell you about my rollercoaster that rewired my brain, skills, and future by Bversity.

Discover and Understand Yourself

My first week at Bversity felt like being handed a spaceship manual written in Klingon. Coding sessions? Terrifying. But the program’s “Discover” phase was relentless in the best way:

Live instructors dissected loops, functions, and pandas (the library, not the animal) with endless patience. By Week 3, I’d written my first script—a clunky but functional DNA sequence analyzer.

When I got stuck at 2 AM, recorded tutorials saved me. That “aha!” moment when ggplot2 turned raw data into a stunning graph? Priceless.

But the real game-changer? S.E.E.D. That’s Bversity’s Skill Enhancement Experiential Development—a whirlwind of hackathons, bootcamps, and CEO talks.

The Hackathon That Shifted My Trajectory: Tasked with building a machine learning model in a day, I teamed up with my peers. Our goal: a drug dosage predictor using patient genomics data. We used Python’s scikit-learn, stumbled through hyperparameter tuning, and presented a janky but working prototype.

Build Your Skillsets

By Term 2, I wasn’t just surviving—I was hungry. The “Build” phase threw us into omics data analysis, SQL databases, and machine learning. Suddenly, Python wasn’t a foe—it was my scalpel.

Industrial Projects: I worked on designing Monoclonal Antibodies for a pharma company. Real data. Real deadlines. Real panic when my code crashed. But with mentorship and Slack groups buzzing with peers, I fixed it.

The Bversity Blueprint: Skills That Turned Me Into an Intern

1.          Python : The backbone of everything I do at Quantcure

2.          ML Foundations: Even as a backend dev, understanding our drug dosage models helps me optimize data flows.

3.          Industry Fluency: Speaking both “biology” and “tech” let me collaborate with experts.

Your Move.

The keyboard that once intimidated me is now my tool for change.

The screen that once terrified me is now my canvas.

If a biology nerd like me can crack backend development, imagine what you could do. Dive into the chaos. Embrace the bugs. And when doubt whispers, code louder.