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Keeping up, post university

How I keep up, post-university After going through my graduation ceremony, and starting the journey of job hunting, it is my responsibility to make sure that I constantly improve my skills to adapt to a rapidly changing industry, and ultimately to not fall behind. And after a couple of months exploring my options, the 3 methods found the most effective are to learn a new programming language, whilst doing so, visit and improve my previous work, and to take on LinkedIn Certifications. Learning a new programming language During my time in university, studying ISDS (Information System and Data Science) I mainly used Python, and whilst there were others using different languages, as this was my first exposure to programming as a skill, Python, the language we were told and learned about in class, was the only option I can realistically use. Therefore, it was obvious that the first step I need to take, in order to keep up, is to learn other programming languages. The immediate choice I land...
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lessons from my thesis

What I learned from writing my thesis As I underwent my master's degree in IT, I was required to commit 2 units over the course of 2 semesters, into theorizing, experimenting, and writing my thesis, and while it was an arduous task, I learned plenty of skills that I was previously blind to. Therefore, in this blog, I will be sharing some of the lessons I found that I am certain, will help me in the workplace. Communicate Prior to my thesis, I always told myself to do everything on my own, and that if I arrived on a dead end, to figure it out myself. However, the issues I encountered on my thesis, both technical problems, and mental and physical problems, convinced me otherwise, and so, I forced myself to break this personal rule of mine, and communicated with my thesis supervisor, and fellow students that are working on similar projects. The result went as well as you would expect, I got help from both my supervisor and friends, my writing became better than ever, and I was able to...
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 Bullying People are often hesitant to make a complaint, why?  When we talk about bullying, its always easy to tell others to make a complaint and to speak up, however, in reality, there are a plethora of reasons and factors that prevent this. These include but aren't limited to : Fear of retaliation : This idea refers to how, the victims fear that by filing a complaint, it will only motivate the bullies to do even more harm to the victim The idea that nothing will change : This refers to how victims think, nothing will change even after making a complaint due to the lack of faith the victims have towards the establishment. Lack of support : The lack of emotional or physical support from the environment/workplace can make it hard for victims to come forward Work culture/Social norms : In some societies and workplaces, victims are convinced that such acts of bullying is the normal, in such environments, it can be difficult to even convince yourself that its a problem. Is it pos...
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 The 2 Types of Stress In the workplace, stress comes commonly through 2 forms, that of the physical type and mental type, while both comes from different directions, they still have a common final destination, you. So in this blog, with the help of statistics published by the NT gov's 2022-23 Work Health and Safety, we hope to help you better identify and manage your own stress. Physical stress This type of stress, refers to the pain or pressure placed on your body due to physical activities or environmental conditions, which if left un-controlled, can result in muscle strain, joint pains, and worst case scenario, injuries and death, as shown by the NT gov's statistics, this type of stress covers 62.2% of all serious injuries. Normally, physical stress can be identified by symptoms that would typically be muscle pain and tension around the body, increased fatigue, decreased work effectiveness, headaches, sleep disturbances, and other painful signs given by your body. After ide...
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Emotional Intellagance

 Emotional Intelligence Today we talked extensively about the idea of emotional intelligence. I didn't really thought it was relevant to me in any shape or form, but after talking about it and doing a little bit of research, it changed my mind. In a small region like Darwin, everyone knows everybody, therefore, its imperative that we show the best version of ourselves in any situation, good or bad. It also means that we are able to identify boundaries and respect them when talking to other people. As we never know, where our relationship with this person will go in the future. To conclude, behave, you never know how anybody will talk about you to another person, and if this other person would be your future employer.
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Daniel Levitin

  I chose to watch the video by Daniel Levitin on how to stay calm when you know you will be stressed. There are two main points that I got from the video, the first one being, that when your stressed, its almost already too hard or too late to talk straight. Daniel mentioned that when your stressed, your brain releases cortisol which clouds your judgement, making it near impossible to properly convey your ideas, in an interview scenario, this is akin to being asked a difficult question which you have the answer to, but panic causes you to blank out said answer, similar to an exam that makes you panic leading you to forget most of the things you already know. So, what is the solution? The second point, which is to make it easy for yourself by assigning important topics into keywords, Daniel mentioned in his story about not losing important objects like his keys and passports, that he puts these objects in the same area, and he assigns this area in his brain, as the specific a...
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  Waterfall Method Through my research, I've learned that the waterfall method refers to a management style involving the almost compulsory need to complete many rigid steps to reach a established and predetermined end-goal. The entire idea of the waterfall method is to have a straight idea on the flow of work needed to be done, including the deliverables and expectations of each phase. Some of the benefits of choosing this style of management, is the ability to create a timeline that can easily predict the work that will be done on each phase, additionally, having clear results done for each prior phase will make work for future phases a lot easier. However, some of the negatives include the inability to adapt due to the fixed timeline, and for the same reason, the limited amount of customer feedback we can take. Agile Method On the other hand, the agile method was formed almost as a direct response to the waterfall method, where most of the attributes of the former ...
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