u/Oofcito

hello!! so i'm about to enter my first year of university in the US, and my university has a thing called "co-op" where you basically work as an intern of sorts for a company over a 6 month period (either one time or three times), and if they like you enough, they can hire you post-gdad. companies can range from small start-ups to big companies

i'd like to have like 1 or 2 spring boot backend projects before i start applying for co-ops (which will be in ~a year from now), but i'd like to have something that would make me stand out instead of some basic CRUD project. my dilemma is whether i would *have* to do something involving microservices, no matter what the project idea is (as it may look impressive or whatever), or if i have the freedom to choose depending on what my requirements are and it being built as a microservice or not is irrelevant. project ideas aren't exactly my worry tbh because i do have a few in mind and i could probably get some AI to help me with that if I get suuuper stuck; it's
more so that architectural decision yk... what do you think would be the smartest decision for me?

hey everyone! so i've been practicing spring security's more advanced concepts (jwt with oauth2) with the help of claude code, and i was curious as to how other people have approached this. to give context: my 'app' uses jwt access and refresh tokens (utilizing cookies), and oauth2 where a frontend would redirect to the spring security generated oauth2 endpoint for whatever provider is chosen by the frontend (with my app, it would be google), so my backend would be the 'client'.
when i started reading other people's code and discussions about it however, i saw that that would be how it would work for a BFF framework. what I was intending to do was make it so it could be utilizable in future SPA apps i may build. now, i'm sitting here and really doubting if my code is an acceptable approach at all. please do keep in mind that some of the oauth2 code was generated (in part) by claude as i didn't know where to start with oauth2 unlike for JWT. i also didn't exactly know much about oauth2 beforehand (which likely is a bad idea lol) and anything i know about it is because i asked claude as i went through with making this app.
i would really appreciate if someone could go over some of my code and give me some feedback as i know llms tend to hallucinate and i need a human opinion as i'm still learning spring boot :)

drexel gave me a good amount in merit aid, but my final grades for my senior year seems to be either 1 or 2 B's with the rest being A's my previous school years i've ended with 0, 1, or 2 B's with everything else being A's. my mom has apparently seen parents of drexel students talk about their merit aid being lowered at the end of their hs senior year because of final grades or whatever and has been fear-mongering me about it but i find it super hard to believe that ending with 2 B's will lower my merit aid especially considering i applied to drexel before my senior year even started so i had no grades, but i could also be incredibly wrong lmao

do you think my merit aid could potentially be lowered with my possible outcomes? or no