Today we spent most of the time going over networking, first with a presentation/lecture and then with an example showing various network commands on both Windows and Linux. I really enjoyed this because I learned a lot in a short amount of time, many things I never understood before finally clicked for me, and I …
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Today we worked on Project Inception, a virtualization project with several subprojects which we revisit from time to time. First we went over how our tickets should be structured going forward on osTicket. I worked on phase 3, which is learning how to use Virt-Manager and setting up VMs in it. I had trouble processing …
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Today we talked about setting up LinkedIn profiles and spent much of the class time trying to fill in our profiles and network with each other. I used a tutorial video and took notes to remind me about all the important fields to fill out and some tips to fill them out as professionally as …
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Today we did our CTT tech articles and it was fun how the discussions of different topics overlapped. We talked about using AI for coding as well as how they interact with search engines and databases. Then we worked on another Sheets project. The sheets project was tricky because of merging cells and knowing which …
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Today we worked on a new Sheets project to enter data about Girl Scout cookie sales. We had to indicate the amount of boxes each person bought and how much they spent, using formulas to calculate totals. We then had to make modifications to the data to have the totals updated automatically. We also got …
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Today we worked on a couple different assignments in Google Docs regarding formatting and proofreading. First we had to fix titles and headers, and then we spent time looking for spelling and grammar mistakes. I enjoy proofreading because I have an attention to detail. Using the Grammarly extension made it much easier, but surprisingly it …
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Today we had the ortientation for new students in Core Training. It was interesting to see it from the perspective of a returning student, and it was also useful to review the program outline. Later on, we talked about how to use Gmail which was great for me as someone who didn’t properly learn some …
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Today we reviewed our recorded interview practice and I surprised myself by doing better than I remembered. I almost finished my resume and refined a lot of my interview questions. I got to practice more interview questions, but I think I need to start actually memorizing some parts of my responses so that I don’t …
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Today we worked on customer service email responses, which used fictitious examples of customers with feedback or complaints and we were expected to respond professionally on behalf of BerkMart. It was good practice for me understanding how to address customer complaints in text and learning what words I should use. Then we reviewed the challenge …
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Today I did my first independent challenge which was to test my knowledge of google apps such as docs and sheets. I was able to finish and I was happy with how it went. Sometimes I struggle to understand what is meant by certain directions, but I was able to get through it anyway. After …