Monday, January 27, 2014

Personal Pc

         One of the past experiences that tested my problem solving skills was building a PC.With the price that you pay on books for school and also if you want to include  relaxing activities, such as games and movies, owning a PC it was the best way to go in the matter of technology.Buying a console only for games and a TV in your room for movies, then a minimum specs PC so you can use the electronic version of a book witch is cheaper than the book itself it still wasn't a way to save money.The best thing to do was to go with a dual monitors system; that way I could incorporate all of them in one.But that still didn't fit in my budget and didn't meet my requirements..And how the market is these days, that companies do their best to make their least but get the most out of it, I didn't find a complete system that it was worth the money.So I decided to put a little effort into it an build one of my own.I started doing some research because I have been out of touch with technology for the past two year or so.There are hundred of products that you can choose, from the motherboard to the mouse and my end product had to be different from everything else that I have seen out there.  It wasn't easy, there are a lot of facts that need to be taken in consideration, nevertheless it was fun an challenging.After every component was carefully chosen all I had to do was to place the order and wait for the delivery.I didn't realized how attached I was to this project until every part was sitting there on my desk waiting for my to give it life.Graceless but with confidence I took every part and place it inside, did the required fitting and cable management looking forward to the relieving moment when I would find out if everything was going to work or not.My brother who was assisting the whole process started making stress relieving jokes and when the moment came, started the countdown.When the PC started from the first push of the button at the moment zero,  we both were to surprised to appreciate the achievement with an external display of emotions, we didn't encounter any of the difficulties that we were expecting.It definitely was a victory.
       
        

Sunday, January 26, 2014

Jung typology test


      The current assignment for my composition class is to take the Jung typology test.One of the most important things when being alive as a human is to be aware of who you are.A person is an undefined territory , you can't say that it starts here and ends up there, regarding your capacity to accomplish at a personal, social or vocational level.Of course the limits are existent but you are the only one who can extend them and the ability to do so is direct proportional with your knowledge about yourself.

     This test was designed to do so and trusting it to be scientific enough I knew that one of the errors that could occur were because I didn't stayed true to myself.I previously seen myself as having an adaptive personality; either I or others said that I change colors like a chameleon .As I grow older I see that I tend to fallow patterns an focus my energy only towards the most important things in my life.I think it's called growing up.Therefore I consider the response of the test reflecting only  my predominant personality and that is INTJ .Reading the indicators of the other personalities I easily identified myself with a few of them.
    I wish I could say that this is what I learned that I can do and this needs improving, but is more difficult than this. Moving from one country to another adds a series of new factors that need to be taken into consideration, such as learning and expressing yourself in a new language, adjusting your expectations and understand what is expected from you, redefining your personality and acquiring different social skills; this fills to my like I have to learn to walk again only that I know how to do it this time.As I previously said  I have yet to discover my limits , to map myself as a new territory .