title	date	layout	description
Now	2022-10-25	permalink	Find out what I am doing now: what I'm learning or reading, what I'm working on in my free time, and where I'm at professionally.

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Recent academic and professional progress

I finished my year of national service in the AmeriCorps VISTA program. I've been interviewing for full-time employment.

In my free time

I created a Letterboxd account to log the movies that I watch.

Esri tools (including ArcGIS Pro, ArcGIS Business Analyst, and ArcGIS Story Maps)

I started the Master of Information (MI) degree program at the Rutgers University School of Communication and Information on a part-time basis.
I started NJLEND, a graduate fellowship for which I was selected as the first Library and Information Science Fellow in May 2022.

I took an American Heart Association (AHA) course to renew my Basic Life Support (CPR and AED) certification.
I finished Optimization - Linear Programming at Thomas Edison State University.

Using the scholarship I was awarded by Thomas Edison State University, I started a graduate-level course (Optimization - Linear Programming) in the data science program.
I met with a group of friends from Swarthmore College in New York City.

I was certified to graduate from Thomas Edison State University with a Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science and an associate's degree in mathematics on June 10, 2022. I also completed the undergraduate certificates in Computer Information Systems and Operations Management.
I was awarded scholarship funds for the fall 2022 semester by the School of Communication and Information at Rutgers University.
I was awarded a Joseph Lippincott Fellowship (Swarthmore Fellowship) by the Fellowships and Prizes Committee at Swarthmore College.

I finished the February 2022 term at Thomas Edison State University, during which I took Computer Architecture and the Liberal Arts Capstone.
I was selected to participate in The Boggs Center's Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental and Related Disabilities (NJLEND) program as a Library and Information Science Fellow during the 2022-2023 academic year. NJLEND is an interdisciplinary graduate fellowship and leadership development program.

I was interviewed by someone from Saylor Academy.
I was awarded $2500 in scholarship funds by the Thomas Edison State University Scholarship Committee.

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).

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.

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.

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.