Opinions on a side project for a recent grad?

Hey everyone 👋

I’m graduating in 4 weeks. Got an analyst role, but I eventually want to land a DS role. Was thinking of taking a gap year and getting an MS degree in CS with an emphasis on ML from Georgia Tech. In that year, I wanted to work on a side project.

I was honestly thinking of teaching myself object oriented programming and making a video game without an engine, just using hard coding. I know that’s not …

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