weekly blog 4-30-10

The dawn of a new day is upon me. I have almost successfully completed my paper. it has been 7 hours of almost non stop typing and referencing! and at last draft 15 is complete. that last and final revision of the paper I started for this project, I am taking a break from typing on the paper as to re collect my thoughts and prepare for the power point and the appropriate references. I was never good at references, if i had to admit that XD. I just hope that I find the proper way to cite my sources.

This semester is drawing to a close, and with that My degree also. I have finally gotten the word I am 100% sure I am receiving my Associates Degree in Computer Information Technology Networking or CIT: Networking for short.

I was supposed to also receive a Certificate in Information Security, but due to some class scheduling issues I will have to wait to get the certificate at the end of 2010 along with my Bachelors Degree in CIT: Networking

My next delema... is to continue education now or go to work full time. I think I have come to a compromise, I want to go for my Doctoral and eventually my PHD. but I need to take baby steps. I think that if I work in the work force for 2 to three years coupled with obtaining my certificates in A+ NET+ SEC+ CCNA, CCIE, CISSP, VCP, MCSE and other various related Technology Certs

so for now I will venture into the unknown with my internship at Interactive Intelligence and see where that takes me. Hopefully a Full time job and a bright future. I think I am on the right track to becoming a great assert. I only Hope that I can continue to learn for the rest of my life and then possibly later in life pursue becoming a professor so i can pass that knowledge on to others.

weekly blog 4-24-10

Well it has been a bit since I have written It is coming to the end of the semester and a lot is coming down to a crunch I got a lot of work still to do for the Broad Band project and I also have this huge Risk analysis Project due in another class. I get to do a fake interview with Bluefish Wireless on the 29th for my CIT310 class and I have to write a a paper over that. I work today from noon to 730pm. That kills the majority of the day for me. alas I need to make the day into a 26 hour day as to cram all the crap I need to finish into one day and get it worked out. I got a lot of Power point work to accomplish and I hope it is all going to get done. Well I got to get ready for work I will blog more later with an update later tonight about where I stand I hope, That is If i don't get too tied up in typing papers.

Jacob

weekly blog 4-14-10

As I stretch and get up I look at the clock 6am again gosh, Monday through Friday I'm up by 530 to 6 am oogh lol. I am not so used to being up this early, but well it is necessary to succeed. Average day consists of taking my girlfriend to work then going to work myself then picking up my girlfriend then taking her home then I go to class. lol then once home bed time! lol as you can see not much free time. I cram it all in as tight as possible at the moment. today is an odd day I don't have to work today, so instead I'm at home writing up this document. I got a lot of school work to accomplish along the way. I hope I can cram it all in the free time slots I have otherwise I'll have to cut back a little on sleep and do more time at night on homework. well enough about the time issues. on to other news.

My old project of my XboX360* Mini Itx mod is almost done. It was hard to grasp the entire project at the start because I was going in blind with just this idea and no blueprints.

Currently I have the Box (case), board, cpu, ram, psu, and the fan assembly, I had to make that myself because the original fans didn't work ill explain it all in my how to mod a 360 with a mini Itx board post *****coming soon*****

project update time. I think now i have looked at a lot of stuff that I can stop researching except for the odds and ends that will link sections together. I need to get it typed up better. It is due on May 1st. that is a little over two weeks XD! time to get down to the grind stone and iron out the details 100%. well enough blogging for the moment I will update further in a day or so. until then ~Jacob

weekly blog 4-7-10

So a lot has happened! I got an internship at Interactive Intelligence. I am so excited about that. I hope that it helps me understand the real workplace, and allow me to unleash my full potential for them and prove I am a good pick. It will definitely be a interesting shift to go from random hours to a set 8-5 job. I don't think I'll have an issue adjusting, but at the same time it will be kinda nice to have my nights and weekends back.

for my project I am still gathering a lot of data, there is so much out there on the broadband plan. between surfing the web about Singapore and the USA plan. there is a lot of data emerging daily. Also I'll need to make sure to verify that the information is real and not propaganda. so far I'm seeing both sides of the story. people either love it or hate it there is really no in between. I think my power point slides may be more tailored to the numbers and ran data than information about the plan. since it will be in the paper. well back to the grind stone until next post ~Jacob