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| title | date | layout | description |
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| Now | 2022-03-19 | permalink | Find out what I am doing now: what I'm reading, what I'm working on in my free time, and where I'm at professionally. |
You might also want to read: What is a "now page"?
Recent academic and professional decisions
Through AmeriCorps VISTA, I have been serving as the Program Evaluation Specialist at a regional human service organization since October 2021.
I have also been working toward a second bachelor's degree (Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science) at Thomas Edison State University (TESU). I am currently taking Computer Architecture (COS-330) and the Liberal Arts Capstone (LIB-495). I made use of credit recommendations from ACE and NCCRS for coursework at non-collegiate providers (e.g., Saylor Academy).
I have decided to accept a Fall 2022 offer of admission to the ALA-accredited Master of Information (MI) degree program at Rutgers University School of Communication and Information.
In my free time
I'm still planning to update the resources page (or create a separate page) with content related to civic technology, computational social science, and data science.
What I'm reading
Schoonmaker, S. (2018). Free software, the Internet, and global communities of resistance. Routledge.
In previous months
February 2022
- I was interviewed by someone from Saylor Academy.
- I was awarded $2500 in scholarship funds by the Thomas Edison State University Scholarship Committee.
January 2022
- I officially withdrew from the Master of Social Work (MSW) program at Smith College School for Social Work, from which I had been taking a leave of absence.
- I finished the November 2021 term at Thomas Edison State University, including three online courses (Data Structures; Database Management; Software Engineering) and two e-Pack courses (Computer Concepts and Applications; Industrial Psychology).
November 2021
- Between moving in January 2021 and summer coursework at Smith College, I had some months where I wasn't regularly volunteering as an EMT. I'm back to it as of late November 2021.
December 2020
- I started participating in #100DaysToOffload on December 1. #100DaysToOffload "challenge[s] people to publish 100 posts on their personal blog in a year." I'm posting these entries to Write.as, a blogging platform with its foundations in free software and a respect for privacy.
- I disabled access logs and updated the privacy policy on December 24.
- I left Mastodon for a few weeks before creating a new account as @ethanyoo@todon.eu on December 29.
November 2020
- I wrote my first "personal" post on November 2, where I describe leaving Cloudflare and GitLab Pages.
- I'm back to volunteering as an Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) as of November 4.
- I posted the privacy and security policy for this website on November 8.
- I wrote a new "Start" page on November 11; it's now more of a landing page. There is an image of the old index page at the bottom of this post.
- I added the "Now" page (what you're currently reading) on November 11.
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