Saturday, April 19, 2025

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.