I'm in my junior year of University. My semester is predominantly General Education requirements. Here's a breakdown of what we're learning about:
- World Civilization I:
At this point in time, the course is following the Cro-Magnon's during the Mesolithic age, specifically around the time that the Neanderthals/Denisovans go extinct and Cro-Magnons evolve into Homo Sapiens Sapiens. This is also around the time that Cro-Magnon-Neanderthal hybrids cross the Beringia Bridge into modern day Alaska. During this time, there's shifts in every single aspect of life on Earth. I've uploaded the most recent lecture notes for those that are interested.
https://textuploader.com/14j86
- Astronomy II:
This has been my favorite course this semester (aside from Computer Systems). My professor does an amazing job presenting the concepts and his passion is very apparent as he teaches. Unfortunately, that effect has been greatly reduced, with classes now being online. The other downer about online class is that I won't be able to use the telescopes for lab. Stemming from our previous sections, which covered the Sun, star formation, and star evolution, we're now covering the various models presented throughout time that tried to reason our position within the Milky Way through stargazing. Here's the lecture if you care to watch.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?=AUlr2hlAPcM&feature=youtu.be
- Technical Writing:
Project 2, that accounts for 30% of my grade, was due Friday. The objective was to create documentation for a program or application. I was having a hard time finding a program, application, package, framework, or language I used, that wasn't already documented to a high enough standard (coincidence? :P). I didn't want to replicate any documentation that already existed so I decided to write an Angular library for creating a vertical or horizontal timeline and documentation for it. I turned it in two hours late, so I most likely will not get credit. Publishing my own code for others to use brought me more joy than I would've imagined.
- Computer Systems I:
The lectures have been covering pipelining, control / data dependencies, forwarding paths, etc. It's extremely fun. In lab, we're programming the Y86-64 ISA using C++.
Besides that stuff and my dance class, where we've learned about the dance throughout the 1900s to present, I've been going through a Udemy course on Kubernetes in preparation for my summer internship and CKA.