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That is one definition. But it is not the one commonly used by universities.

> What does this mean when it comes to college admissions? This means that students from historically underrepresented backgrounds may be admitted despite having grades and test scores that aren’t as strong as those of students from other groups. Likewise, students from overrepresented groups may need to meet higher academic standards to gain acceptance. This was the issue brought to the foreground in the lawsuit against Harvard University by Students for Fair Admissions, which was representing Asian-Americans who claimed that affirmative action made it harder for them to get in.

https://blog.collegevine.com/what-is-affirmative-action/

You can of course find definition which agree with you:

> noun A policy or a program that seeks to redress past discrimination through active measures to ensure equal opportunity, as in education and employment.

> noun a policy of making active efforts to improve the employment or educational opportunities available to members of minority groups or women; -- achieved by employers or schools by using various techniques, but excluding the use of simple quotas or outright discrimination against white males.

> noun A policy or program providing advantages for people of a minority group who are seen to have traditionally been discriminated against, with the aim of creating a more egalitarian society through preferential access to education, employment, health care, social welfare, etc.

> noun a policy designed to redress past discrimination against women and minority groups through measures to improve their economic and educational opportunities

https://www.wordnik.com/words/affirmative%20action

This link is a little old (~2 years) but it lists a bunch of "code challenge" websites: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/the-10-most-popular-coding-challenge-websites-of-2016-fb8a5672d22f/

Each challenge is basically a problem, described in words, which you solve in the site's built-in UI/compiler. I haven't used them all, just codewars and hackerrank, but they might be what you need to get into the coding mindset. They helped me sharpen my javascript skills after a few years off, but they support other languages too. If you're stumped, they give you hints, and have forums where you can ask for help or view working solutions.

Good luck!

You can get a webcam on Amazon for about $22: https://www.amazon.com/Logitech-Desktop-Widescreen-Calling-Recording/dp/B004FHO5Y6/ref=sr_1_5?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1494217946&sr=1-5&keywords=webcam | I hope they've gotten back to you at this point.

On reading, join your local library. The Verona library has a monthly "books 'n booze" book club, no idea how frequent that is. There are other libraries in the area that also probably do their own thing. Or guru groups are a thing, find other people on your team who posted similar interests and just start by asking them for recommendations. Sanderson has his own sizeable sub-guru group under the books tab.

Depending on your role (I can only speak to TS), you may have interviews and intro meetings, a skills project, small team, etc., and all of those are good opportunities to start meeting friends at work. It can take a couple months to really find potential work friends with shared interests, but you're a July hire- most of the other July hires are probably still looking for a support network, and same with the incoming August hires. For work friends, just start by asking other new hires out to lunch and extend from there if you actually enjoy spending time with them.

Have you gone through app camp yet? You at least meet some people through that, whoever you sit next to/the entire class if it's a small one.

Also join a gym and make a buddy there. Join a volleyball league or something, try out some other hobbies (i.e. cycling, karaoke) and be the organizer. Join meetup.com and meet people in the area through those.

Hmm. You'll probably have to contact [email protected] and get an account for someone who isn't an employee at Epic. They did change some certifications and some are different from your internal Epic certification but all of those should show up as past certifications.

> Could you claim that a task took an hour when really it was 15 min of work and 45 min of staring at the wall?

I guess but you don't do much staring at walls. If you find yourself staring at a wall-- that would be a good time to try and find an internal project to keep yourself occupied.

That being said, it's self reported. You log time via an internal application. People keep track of their time via calendars, via best guess, some even use manic time to track time. YMMV.