{"id":2,"date":"2020-09-09T23:36:34","date_gmt":"2020-09-09T23:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/eltonkok\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2020-12-16T12:16:13","modified_gmt":"2020-12-16T19:16:13","slug":"bio","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/eltonkok\/bio\/","title":{"rendered":"About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hi! My name is Elton and I am a BCS (Bachelor&#8217;s of Computer Science) student at UBC. I am currently pursuing this as a second degree as I have completed\u00a0 my first degree in Biochemistry and Human Biology at the University of Toronto. I hope to be able to use this degree to attain the academic knowledge and work experience to become a Software Engineer at a large tech company that makes products used by millions of people around the world.<\/p>\r\n<p>Academically, I am interested in many different fields. Of course, as a computer science major, I am interested in topics of computer science and developing apps. I am also thinking of completing a bridging module (similar to a minor for the BCS program) in machine learning and computer engineering. Having my previous degree in Biochemistry and Human Biology, I am also interested and knowledgeable in the natural science fields with relations to cells, DNA, and analytical laboratory techniques.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi! My name is Elton and I am a BCS (Bachelor&#8217;s of Computer Science) student at UBC. I am currently pursuing this as a second degree as I have completed\u00a0 my first degree in Biochemistry and Human Biology at the University of Toronto. I hope to be able to use this degree to attain the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/eltonkok\/bio\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;About Me&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74244,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/eltonkok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/eltonkok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/eltonkok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/eltonkok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74244"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/eltonkok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/eltonkok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":140,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/eltonkok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/eltonkok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}