2nd post, M110 coming up!

    So far the IS101 spring class has been a lot of ups and downs. Honestly, more downs than ups but I'm getting better about it. Working on getting all caught up at the moment, and hopefully I do well on the M110. One big thing I'd change is my attendance. I feel like I've probably shown up to maybe 1 in 4 classes and its just been tough to hold myself accountable, and that's of course impacted my performance in the course.

    4.8.3 Advanced table Formatting

    Advanced table formatting was probably the most useful lesson to me in terms of using Word effectively. Whenever I needed to make a table for one of my CCNA courses, I'd do it in such an obtuse way to get it to look right, and I'd have to tweak it over and over again just to get it to look like a proper addressing table. But once I actually sat and took the information on how making tables on a Word document can actually feel like when I know what I'm doing, I felt very silly. It seems like such a small thing, I thought to myself, "eh I don't do it often enough to justify learning the right way," but once I actually figured it out. It's made doing that kind of homework way less tedious.

I'd probably try doing our A and B practices a couple of times over to get a feel for how the grading works. The grading checks can feel a little odd at times for TestOut, so figuring out how they actually work would be a priority of mine. 

One last little thing I'd like to share with everybody is that things can get rough sometimes, but that's ok. You can sit down and let it sink in for a while, but just don't take too long to get back up.

Kicking things off

    Hey there anyone reading this, I'm Enrique, an IS101 (Introduction to Information Systems) student currently in  college majoring in cyber security. This blog is unfortunately a required assignment throughout the semester for this class, so have fun listening to random ramblings involving some kind of business level communications for Microsoft Office.

    1st Impressions. So far ok. I've taken this class once before, dropped it for personal reasons, but still got some kind of a grasp of the basics. I kinda wish the formatting for this one were a little more straightforward but hopefully I get into the groove of things soon enough. Just hoping to do my best in the coming months and hopefully leave this class with that certification.

    1.4.2 security risks This node in the book goes over common security practices, such as windows firewall and various kinds of anti-virus. I know some of the rest of the nodes in 1.4 also go over other security risks such as social engineering attacks and things of the like. This is something I deal with regularly in my current field of study. It was touched on briefly in my Network+ course, as well as during my high school education in my CyberSec classes. Basic internet safety is also just something I passively taught myself, looking things up online and trying to keep my digital footprint small.