My first taste of “programming power” wasn’t Python or C —
it was a simple HTML tag that broke my brain:
<marquee>Hello World</marquee>
The moment that text started moving across the screen,
I felt like I hacked the internet.
That tiny animation awakened something in me —
the idea that logic can create behavior,
and small instructions can produce visible, reliable results.
That spark never left.
I was pushed toward engineering because I was good at math.
I excelled early — structured logic, formulas, problem sets —
grades were good.
But when engineering shifted to:
– analog circuits
– resistors and transistors