Kat's Blog

My project is going well. There was a bit of discourse this week between my teammates over the website we need for our project. While it was a difficult conversation we ended up coming to a compromise where both parties are happy with the outcome. On the bright side, our project progress has been steadily increasing and my teammates are very skilled, capable, and productive.

So far this course has been really fun and insightful. With this project, I have the opportunity to explore my specific interests in more depth. I am glad that I am working on this project while also taking Intro to Security since there’s a LOT of overlap.

My team and I have been making good progress and have been pretty efficient communicators. We are able to have weekly team meetings over Discord as well as chat in between meetings. They are helpful and I find that we all contribute to our project and there is no one person lagging behind. One challenge we face currently is finding a good time each week for our synchronous meetings. Usually, there’s a time slot every Thursday evening that we are able to meet, however, sometimes people cannot make it or have to come late (myself included). We have been good about giving that warning in advance, and usually, we are able to reschedule or take notes for the missing person. So thankfully we’ve been able to navigate through our roadblocks thus far!

Introduction

My name is Katalina Nakoa and I am an in-person student at the Corvallis campus. My favorite hobbies are reading, spending time with friends, and being outdoors. I have one pet (she’s really more like my child), a Yorkshire terrier with an attitude problem. Her name is Kimchi. 

I was fortunate to grow up in a somewhat computer-literate family, but I didn’t consider studying them until college. I came into OSU undecided and found that I lacked a lot of passion for most areas of study. I decided that CS, specifically cybersecurity, was a field that I found interesting and worked around my other aspirations.