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Week 1 of my Post-Baccalaureate Semester is Over

I’m happy to say my first week of going back to school went without a hitch and I loved it.

My Computer Forensics class is taught by the head of the department, who is also in charge of admissions into the Information Security & Privacy Graduate Certificate program I want to get accepted into.  I introduced myself and thanked him for his help in answering my questions with getting started with the Post-Baccalaureate program.  He seems like a cool guy and hopefully if all goes according to plan with my current two courses I’ll be accepted into the Information Security & Privacy Graduate Certificate program for the Spring 2011 semester.

I really like his class because from day 1 he taught me something I never even hard of before, namely Write-Blockers.  And after he explained to us what they are and how they work, he pulled out a metal briefcase full of these expensive pieces of equipment and passed them out for us to play with and try out.

He also informed us that a brand new forensics lab was almost complete.  And that it was built specifically for this class and only available to students of his class.  We will have different projects that will require us to work with very expensive and high tech equipment throughout the semester.

Everything he told us sounds real interested and I’m excited to get started.

My second class is Principles of Information Security which also involves learning about Cryptography.  The teacher didn’t go into too much on the first day but it also sounds like an interesting class where I will get to do a research project.  What was real cool about the class was it was combined with students form North Carolina A&T University.  We had two big LCD screens in the class room where we had visual of their students, and they had visual of us.  There were speakers/mics on the desks so the two classes could communicate with one another and, there was a motorized camera hanging from the ceiling which the students from A&T could move around to see what was going on.

All in all I’m happy so far with how things are going and can’t wait for week 2.