The summer before I graduated with my MBA I took CIS 5355: Database Management Systems with Dr. Mayur Mehta, a graduate-level elective course. I was intimidated about taking a graduate elective in data that was outside the purview of the MBA planned curriculum. Some thoughts before the class: I can't code! I don’t know how computers work! And the loudest most unspoken fear, I may fail at this! Which at its core means, I’m afraid I’m not smart enough to do this! But I understood and liked the material. I was surprised to find how logical the coding language structure was- I thought of it like technical poetry. I was excited to tackle the assignments and flex my newfound SQL skills. I learned how databases were structured, how to create them from nothing, how to link different forms of data intake, and how to use SQL to draw up information from these organized sets of data. The most surprising thing of all was that I did really well. For a class I thought I could fail m...