Arrive having built something real, earned meaningful credentials, and prepared for ECE — without burnout.

Three work phases + Coast In. Cancun planning (May 24–31), Engine Room build month (June), Polish + Prep (July), then Coast In (August). Six tracks that peak at different times.

Key milestones

• May 25 — Internship site migration complete ✅
• Jun 1 — Internship resumes analytics + SEO phase; app build starts
• Jun 20 — Vanderbilt interviewee confirmed
• Jun 30 — AWS Cloud Practitioner exam taken; 2 cert badges earned
• Jul 1 — Buy TI-30XIIS calculator + start CHEM 1601 prep
• Jul 12 — CHEM Exam 1 block complete (Ch 1–4)
• Jul 15 — Vanderbilt interview recorded
• Jul 19 — CHEM Exam 2 block complete (Ch 5–8)
• Jul 24 — Internship last day
• Jul 26 — CHEM Exam 3 block complete (Ch 9–12)
• Jul 30 — CHEM Exam 1 mock under real conditions (7–8:30 PM)
• Jul 31 — Vandy reflection submitted (hard deadline Aug 15); all 4 CHEM 1601 exam blocks covered

• College Buddy App — live, authenticated, deployed on Vercel
• Palo Alto Cybersecurity Apprentice badge
• AWS Cloud Practitioner certification
• Vanderbilt Summer Assignment reflection submitted
• Updated LinkedIn with internship experience + badges
• ECE snippets GitHub repo with logged lab builds
• Fastweb scholarship applications filed (Jun–Jul)
• CHEM 1601 prep — all 4 exam blocks covered + 1 full Exam 1 mock completed under real evening conditions
• TI-30XIIS calculator owned + fluent (log, 10^x, e^x, EE entry, nested parentheses)

• Tracks peak at different times — don't force all six at once.
• App needs to be real, not perfect. Ship, then improve.
• Palo Alto + AWS is a solid cert combo for the summer.
• EE fundamentals are about not starting from zero at Vanderbilt.
• Chem is the #1 academic priority — it's the only fall course with evening exams (7–8:30 PM).
• OpenStax Atoms First 2e mirrors the Domski textbook — use it as the chem spine.
• Highest-leverage chem move: 1 full Exam 1 mock under real conditions in Week 5.
• Use early internship finish to free June space for app build — not extra internship scope.
• Excel stays stretch and nested — not top-level work.
• System prompt is the heart of the College Buddy App.
• Schema before code. Backlog anything outside MVP.

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