Week 3

 Two study tips I've been trying to work on are fighting depression and overcoming anxiety.  While these two subjects I've been struggling with most of my life, they really come into light over the past 5 years.  Since then I've been to therapy and started taking antidepressant medication which helps me cope with depression and anxiety.  

Learning about Ethics has always been interesting and also frustrating topic for me.  I've taken an upper division course called Environmental Ethics, which dived into how humans view and interact with nature.  Some of these concepts have stayed with me and I'm relearning them here as well as learning more. Care Ethics is similar to custodian ethics in environmental sense, where humans are a part of the Earth versus the Earth was made for humans.

 The reading on what computer science students should know was interesting and I learned quite a bit from it.  I was surprised to see the use of LaTeX being very common and recommended to use.  I've always heard about it but never even touched it.  Interesting the article mentioned speaking with other engineers, especially over physics type topics, which is something I'm looking foward too, since I am also an engineer :).  

I was surprised to see no mention of ARM assembly, mostly about x86 which is also important.  But with so many mobile devices and even Apple moving towards ARM for their computers, it's being a bigger force in modern computing. 


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