Category Archives: What I Did Today

My power went out right at the beginning of class, then it came back on. I spent most of the day on my portfolio, and we learned how to add cool shapes to our presentations to make them more interesting. We learned how to modify Monkeytype as well.

Today at CTP, I continued updating and posting new job listings for our participants—be sure to check them out when you get a chance. One role that stood out was a Junior IT Help Desk position, which could be a great opportunity for someone in the San Francisco area looking to grow in the tech …

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Today, I started working on a new lab, Computer Hardware. I created a new ticket and added the definition for some terms, including their research link. We did some skill benchmarking in class, CompTIA A+, and Emotional Intelligence. We ended the session by doing our what I did post.

Typing practice. I spent the day working on electives. I finally settled on the Art Google Sheets Project.

In the first hour I did my usual 15 minutes of typing practice, hitting my goal of 60wpm on both 5 minute tests. I added some CS jobs for the San Jose area, and one IT job in the Rohnert Park area. In hours two and three I worked on the workstation project.

This is electives week, so I started my month 3 portfolio slideshow. I also spent some time on my resume and searching Idealist for possible volunteer opportunities. I finished the first draft of my resume, and now I need to put volunteer experience in there. I then started working on my portfolio.

Today I started to work on the Computer Hardware project. I completed the pre lab and will continue the lab tomorrow. Finally, I completed a Percipio benchmark and got a good score.

We started the Computer Hardware project on a new ticket. We started with the pre-lab which included some questions and terms to learn. Then we continued with a benchmark test in Percipio and I got 8 incorrect out of 28 but a couple of the questions were tricky.

Today was not an easy day. I had a hard time finding jobs to post because so many jobs wanted degrees or more than one year of experience. I managed to post three job listings for today but not without doing some research. I would have got farther on the email list but there were …

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