Hour 17

Met at my mentors house again. She told me that she got a call to a job in Europe for a while so shes going to be gone for a couple weeks. I don't really know what i'm going to do when shes gone for the next few weeks. Since the essay is already pretty much over besides the final draft, there isn't really any serious editing i can do. My mentor said that when she gets back, we can try and work on an LDAP Adminstrator data base because we have yet to do so. Maybe ill mess with the program by myself and see if i can learn some things on my own.

Trying to perfect my paper. Hour 13-16

With my Teacher draft of the essay being due in two days, it was crucial for me to start trying to perfect my paper with the feedback i had received from the peer edit as well as from my own thoughts. Typing up the paper obviously wasn't a brisk walk in the park. i noticed that in my first draft, i had a ton of run on sentences. If i wanted to make this as good a paper as i can, i needed to fix any errors and all errors i had. Now that i am sure of my topic, technology replacing humans in the workforce, it was much easier to pinpoint my research and make some minor adjustments. Although my paper was mostly based off of Jeremy Rifkin's article "New Technology and the End of Jobs", i found really strong arguments in an article by Alan Brown titled "Automation vs. Jobs". In this article, MIT two MIT Professors expressed their feelings towards the advancements of technology and how it directly affects the work force. This was a great find for me since it is directly related to my paper topic and argument. If i wasn't already lucky enough, i was able to find an article by a man named Henrik I. Christensen who directly responded to the thoughts and arguments of the two MIT professors. With these two articles, i am now able to compare and contrast the two sides of this argument, making it much more clear and accurate. Hopefully this teacher draft is as good as i hoped it to be. I tried my best to not procrastinate on the essay portion as i feel that this is the most important part of the whole project.

Hour 11-12

Met once again with my mentor. She tried to help me out with something i could physically present to the class when it came time to do so. I wanted to try and present some physical parts of her GAP data base info but obviously, its way too confidential for her to do that. I never knew that databases were so tightly guarded. She said that if she showed me some of the data that was stored in the LDAP Administrator program, that i couldn't record anything i saw in terms of numbers and letters because it must be kept secret. In order to access the GAP's network, she had to enter her own personal password but also a password that is constantly randomized that is view-able on an electronic key chain that is connected to her computer. every time she wants to log in to the servers from home, she must enter the randomized 8 digit code, and her own personal password as well as username. This security protocol is set up so that not one password can access all these important files.