Part One: Set Your Educational Goals
My current educational goal is to earn a bachelor’s in computer science from California State University, Monterey Bay. I strive to earn an A in all CS Online classes. I am also looking to learn valuable skills outside of formal education — for example, I am currently investigating the basics of functional programming using OCaml.
Part Two: Set Your Career Goals
While this may be ambitious, a tangible goal in my career might be to, near the end of the CS Online program, receive and accept an internship offer in the software engineering field. It would be prudent to start compiling projects I have completed to form a portfolio, which will help demonstrate my skills to potential employers.
Part Three: Take a wild guess of your percentile of the ETS Computer Science test
The ETS Computer Science test includes many topics that I am familiar with, and will no doubt learn more about over the next two years. I have always done well in tests relating to computer science, so at the risk of sounding ambitious, I would guess I might score around 90% near the completion of the CS Online program. As for percentiles, while I think it is impossible to guess a specific number, I know many of my peers have more experience than me in these areas; I would guess my standing to be slightly better than average.
Part Four: Keep Up With Your Learning Journal
General lecture included information relating to career goals. Specifically, this reading emphasized the importance of self-assessing, networking, tracking accomplishments, knowing your worth, updating your skills, negotiating, and allowing for downtime.
Writing lab mostly contained information related to our ethics paper. I am steadily becoming confident in my ability to apply various ethical frameworks. This week focused more on the types of claims used to support one’s position in an argument; some examples include claims of fact, claims of definition, claims of cause, claims of value, and claims of policy.