Felt alright in class today. I started off pretty positive and crumbled more towards the end. I dearly appreciated Marc helping me with the extra credit portion of the spreadsheet because I almost gave up and just dropped it when my numbers were not rounding up at all. I’m also proud of myself for asking the question for aid.
I felt a bit down towards entering into blog time today because we were able to view some of our coworkers’ (my awesome Bootcamp Alumni coworkers) spreadsheets. I never knew we were able to be so creative and expressive with our spreadsheets. In my head, I have simply been trying to meet what I have experienced in work (and learned years ago) as “professional spreadsheets-” which honestly? Usually lack in creativity. I was a bit disgruntled with myself because designing the spreadsheets is one of my favorite things to do, and I felt I did not provide quality work today. I now learned it is okay to get creative in designing a spreadsheet for myself. Plus, as long as my boss and other employees are accepting of it? It is welcome! Thank you, Alex, Sam, and Mike, for the lesson in not letting work bore me out of a job or remove my space for creativity! #LifeLessons
Firstly, I learned about the expected weekly tasks (clocking in and out of Homebase, “What I did today,” the weekly tech article, and Skillsoft). Then, I set up Google Calendar reminders for all of them so that I have an extra safety net just in case. After that, I set up Wireguard and Remote Desktop Connection and logged onto the remote computer I’ll be using for my labs. And then I got access to osTicket and created my first ticket. To round out the day I talked with Jose about why Bitdefender is better than Google passwords. This led to ideas about possible tech articles about how AI is changing security I could research and share in the future.
Today was hectic as I had to take a 2 hour trip into the city first thing in the morning. I made it to class on time, but I was exhausted from my appointment. On top of that, I had endless struggles logging into HomeBase. Eventually, on Tiye’s suggestion we tried the phone app to bypass some of the problems I was experiencing with my computer. I finally logged in about an hour late and so far, it works.
I had finished my two formatting assignments yesterday, so at least I wasn’t worried about keeping up with the assignment for today. On the schedule was the Girl Scout Cookies Google Sheets assignment, where we had an order from about 15 fictitious people over the assortment of six flavors they chose from. The purpose of the exercise was to organize the data (enter each data point), and find the totals using SUM formulas.
I quickly set up the page with the formulas, but when I got to the second portion of the exercise, I noticed the changes in data showed that not all my formulas were working. It was cool to see the mistake that I made a couple times with the SUM function and correct the formulas sometimes with fixed cell annotation ‘$’ to get everything working. I also did some web searching for cookie images to give my spreadsheet some functional flair.
Today I made a spreadsheet tallying up Girl Scout Cookie sales. I made it look real nice! This assignment gave me more good practice with formulas. I learned how to do the ROUNDUP formula too.
9 1 2026
Today we first did 15 mins of typing practice, then caught up on yesterday’s assignments. Then we spent the rest of the time doing the Girl Scout cookies Google Sheets assignment.
Today was pretty relaxing. Not much happened in today’s session, but I worked on a Google Sheets assignment to strengthen my skills in there.
Hello hello and welcome to my Month Three Monday blog post! I feel pleased with my efforts on shift today. I took the quiz of orientation four times because the first question kept floating me in circles. It honestly had me in my head rolling on the floor laughing. Mainly because the answer that I, for some reason avoided, was the answer it needed to be. I originally felt it was the answer and in my head I thought “naah T, don’t trick yourself,” and I did exactly that! lol
The rest of class was fun; I do love to edit materials. It felt like a positive team catch on the first assignment with my fellow Bootcamp Alumni, Alex and Sam. Thank you Mike for the confirmation of the catch!
Another Monday, and this time we are in Month 3. I had completed my Percipio Skillsoft on Friday on Agile methodology called Agile For All. There’s a series of these courses on Skillsoft and so I will see about maybe doing another one in the series.
For classwork, we introduced the PRO course to new students and we were in combined class with CTT. We took a quiz on the orientation presentation. Then, we had an assignment on Meeting Deadlines, where we e-mailed the instructor with our 3 go-to reminder methods for turning everything in on time. Over the course of 2 months, I have had plenty of practice adding things to my calendar or planner.
Next, we did a formatting exercise that was very similar to the exercise on Page Numbers, Section Breaks, and Table of Contents that we did for BerkMart last month. Some of the sample instructions left something to be desired, and choosing the correct headings and reinserting the table of contents took multiple attempts.
Finally, for the last hour of class, we worked on sample e-mail letters that contained formatting errors that needed to be corrected. It had been awhile since I looked at official guidance on Letterhead or Memorandum format, but I learned a little bit how to make these sample documents look as neat as could be after making the edits.
Today I did a couple of Google Docs assignments (Formatting and Fix These Letters). It was good practice in professional writing style.
8 31 2026
Today in class, we did more Google Docs practice on creating a table of contents, using headings to differentiate sections in the first document, and adding page breaks to separate pages into different subjects. The second document had more practice with Google Docs and formatting and changing fonts to make it more business-professional letters.