CSUMB Learning Journal 2025

  Part One Reflect on your team's Final Research Video Project Planning.  How did you collaborate?  What tools did you use to communicate and produce? Is the process smooth, what will you do differently next time in large collaborative projects?      My team and I are doing well so far on our final research video project, if anything I'm not pulling enough weight. We collaborate through discord chat and on Saturday's we have a meeting to discuss any team assignments/projects. Though we keep regular contact through the chat. We are in the process of recording our scripts for our video then we're going to hand them off to a member that is splicing together some videos. Our project has to do with deepfake AI so we're trying to make it as demonstrative as possible because of the potential deepfake has to ruin somebody's career and reputation. We want all of our fellow students to see our video and understand that. Part Two Please reflect on the Lecture readings...

  Part 1: Help Your Teammates to Develop Capstone Ideas One capstone idea my team has been discussing is a family gps app, similar to life360. The goal is to implement google maps api and integrate gps into the app. Another idea that has been floating around our group chat is a health app for appointment reminders, information about check up importance, information about all kinds of common diseases, and a build in translator for non native english speakers so that they can communicate with health care professionals. I had the idea to make an improved redactions app, where you can upload a database with keywords to auto redact. Formatting would be crucial but if successful you'd be able to redact documents extremely fast and effectively. Human review would still be necessary but it would be a goldmine of an app to sell if it pans out.    Part 2: Keep Up With Your Learning Journal This week was fairly short, we reviewed resumes and cover letters as well as viewed a really ...

Post Interview Reflection Report Introduction : Who you interview and why. The expert’s name, title, and organization. A brief background on why you selected this person. I interviewed Joshua Brackett, he's been a close friend of mine for going on 8 years and he works in the same industry I'm looking to transition into. Joshua is a Customer Success Engineer working at Zipline. I decided to interview Joshua because as I mentioned, he's a close friend of mine and I felt it would be a more meaningful interview asking him directly. During the interview I felt like the information and tips I was getting was directed at me and not just a broad overview of his industry/job. Summary : Key takeaways from the conversation (e.g., career advice, insights into industry trends, technical challenges). Some key takeaways I got from the conversation was that a) your portfolio means a lot when you're looking for a job, technical knowledge is important for the interview process but they a...

  Part One: Set Your Educational Goals  Something I want to achieve by the end of this CS program at Monterey Bay is to have a portfolio full of projects. We learned in the recent weeks that a portfolio is more important than a resume for a programmer and I stand by that. I would like to have several large scale projects completed with my group and perhaps a few solo projects in said portfolio so I may display all that I have learned. My goal? Port-Fillio (Fill out my portfolio). Part Two: Set Your Career Goals      It may not seem like much but my career goals are sort of simple. I want to be a full-stack developer, the company I work for does not matter to me so much as the work-life balance. Traveling is very important to me so a remote job that gives me the freedom to move around is a must. I envision myself with my significant other putting in our hours and then going out to explore a new country we just landed in. This lifestyle has already been attained b...

      Last week we mentioned some study techniques that need work. One of the study techniques I listed was note taking. This week in the learning journal assignment an amazing resource was linked that provided a bunch of information on study techniques. Lucky for me note taking was one of them. After reading through the note taking page there were some key takeaways that I learned. There was the 2-6 Method, in which you divide the space on your notepaper. Make two columns, using the red line on the left of the page as your border. Then when taking notes use the 6 column for the notes and the smaller 2 column on the left as a highlighting system. Mark the main headings and important info on the left. Another technique I learned was the split page method. By splitting the notebook page in half lengthwise you can take notes on one side of the paper and outline the text on the other side, so when it comes to studying you'll have both.      During this wee...

                                               Part 1: Review and Reflect Learning Strategy The Effective Study Skills google document goes into detail that every person is different when it comes to studying and retaining knowledge. Key tips and tricks that are proven to help with your studies are highlighted throughout the document which bring insight into how you should prepare yourself for a study session and how you should conduct your studies. Poor study skills are wasted time, and wasted time leads to frustration and low grades. From the document I can say that the top 3 things highlighted that I am already good at are scheduling, extracting important details, and reviewing and revising. On the other hand the top 3 things I feel that I need to work on are taking notes, taking examinations and gathering materials when I write. I tend to review...

      This week was the start of module 1 in the CST300 course and it was already loaded with assignments. Though they were all fairly simple, the outline I found to be a bit time consuming. I'm really enjoying our group projects thus far and look forward to working with my group in future projects, so far it has just been simple team building projects. I can't wait to work on something more challenging with them. This weeks lecture was basically reminding us about plagiarism and the repercussions involved with being a cheater as well as informing us that we will stick to an APA format for all of our writing assignments. I used to hate citing references but I found a good google add-on that will cite my page in whatever format I need it to as well as provide an in-text citation. That saved me a good amount of time on my recent outline. We also got to do some distance introductions this week. I had to do something similar in a previous class so it was simple and quick. But...