Hi, I'm Samira 👋. Welcome to the first post of Unstructured Data: The Human Factor .

My build write-ups are the structured data: clean, organized, code included. This series is everything that doesn't fit in a table. It's the career change, the imposter syndrome, being a nontraditional student about to graduate and head into a master's program, and figuring out who I am as a developer in real time.

Every Friday I'll lead with a word. I'm a lover of forgotten and rarely used words, and sometimes one of them says exactly what I've been feeling. Then I'll tell you the story behind it. Think of it as a journal I'm keeping in public, from three classes left all the way to wherever this goes. You're invited for the whole ride.

Here's where it starts.

Verisimilitude: the appearance of being true or real. As a word lover, I did not know how much that word could describe my life until right at this very moment.…