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CAS Blog: December 2019

At this point, I'm pretty much ready for the holidays. School has been going well, and it's only the first day of December, but I really want to be on break already. Nevertheless, things have been going well. It's been a while since I've received any substantial activity, although that's because I have been really preoccupied with school and my interests are primarily sedentary, although I do intend on getting more activity like I had been doing earlier in my CAS journey. Most of my creativity at this point has been researching different computer architectures and things of the sort in order to see what project I should pursue next, but soon the ball should get rolling in terms of fully undergoing these projects.

(Learning Outcome: #3)

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