Category Archives: What I Did Today

I started my day with job postings. I found a lot of great opportunities, as well as 4 job fairs. Then I finished transferring the last on Sonoma county food bank locations to the website. I then created a spreadsheet for DSPS outreach, and started researching local collages to contact. After that I got a …

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I participated in an orientation session with Marc, reviewed the Pro course outline, and worked on the electives assignment.

Today I learned that I need to add a hard drive to the port in order for the virtual machines to keep running. I also learned the key differences between bios and ueif. I also learned that I can take it slower than the rest of the class because I’m in month one.

To begin the day, I dove right into this week’s lab and hit a wall with it, unable to boot both operating systems on one virtual machine. Additionally, we watched several presentations on the steps a computer takes when it is powered on, the POST, BIOS, and OS stages to be specific. To finish the …

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In the first hour, I did 15 minutes of typing and then added some job listings in the Sacramento area to the CTP WordPress site. In the second hour I worked on the emergency food list. In the last hour I worked on the slide show project.

Today I learned how to shrink my D Drive to have unallocated space. Today I learned about the BIOS, UEFI, and the CMOS. Lastly, I documented my progress on this lab with OSTicket.

I am SO excited to be back for my last round of AWEX! I missed all my co-workers, and working in general. I like feeling accomplished and necessary. I had check ins with Carrie and Devin. I shared 9 job postings and then switched to work on completing Sonoma county on the food bank list. …

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In class, I worked on my slide show project, and at the end of class, I worked a little bit on Percipio and a little bit on my accountability assignment.

Today I continued to work on my Win10-v2 vm, loading in and installing Ubuntu to the same vm in VMM. Also took some skills benchmarking and have seen a noticeable improvement in my ability to understand basic computer terminology. Pretty happy with my progress overall.

Today I began the Disk partition lab, which began with the Pre-Lab, which included defining relevant terms and answering questions relevant to our current knowledge of computer hardware. I spent the whole day on this lab, which ended with the (hopefully) successful installation of a second OS on one VM.