Career Fair Time

Today the business and technology career fair was held at the Columbia Convention Center. There was tons of fun and interesting employers like intel, BMW, and a particularly interesting one called cube. They are a company that does 3d printing and they had a bunch of models on the display. Ive read about the 3d printers before on the internet but this was the first time I've seen them in person. Overall a good career fair!

The Modern iClicker

In class 544 today we did something fun I've never done in any of my other classes. Something that id like to see implemented into all of my classes. It's like a modern iclicker, my teacher used to this site that let her create polls and let us text in our answers to the site. It anonymously created a live view of peoples interests and answers to the polls created. It was nice because it let you send in an answer in many different ways. From your computer, your phone, even twitter and for once it worked unlike many other technologies like it. It was fun and it kept everyone in the class participating in the conversation and I think if more teachers did something like this they would get the students to gather more information.

Entry One - Me!

My name is Mike Armstrong currently I am a Junior at the University of South Carolina. I major in Integrated Information Technology and plan to graduate in the spring of 2014.

I created this blog as part of an assignment for one of my college courses. Throughout the semester I will be posting entries of things I find interesting that are related to the material in my course.

My college career had been pretty typical for about the first year and a half. Going to class, hanging out with friends...you know college things. Then in the spring of last year I was bored and my parents told me I should look into study abroad. Luckily for me if they hadn't said it when they did  I wouldn't have been able to fit it into my course load. Living in Rome, Italy was the best six months of my life. Up's and down's traveling with friends getting stuck in foreign countries I couldn't have asked for a better experience. After this life changing period I gained a second love. First had always been technology, its the reason I got into information technology in the first place. Second is traveling after that time I got the travel bug and its all I want to do now. Which has pushed me into the direction I am now; Back at the University of South Carolina working on finishing my degree I was able to attain in Internship that combines my two loves in life! This summer I will be interning with State Department working at the Consulate of Naples in Italy.

Well thats just a little bit about me for now. There will be more in the next few weeks and months as the semester progresses.