I'm taking a quarter off from classes at OSU and going to concentrate on my job search and building out a few small web apps for my portfolio.
Listening to so many people who got into using python through sheer luck is such a great motivator. It reminds me that we can take the time we need to learn what we need.
There was also a very grounded sense of use around A.I. and the outlandish claims being made by the technocrats. Everyone I met was very knowledgeable about how machine learning could help us, but never replace us.