{"id":8,"date":"2023-11-11T23:34:25","date_gmt":"2023-11-11T23:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/kevinscapstone\/?p=8"},"modified":"2023-11-11T23:34:25","modified_gmt":"2023-11-11T23:34:25","slug":"midterm-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/kevinscapstone\/2023\/11\/11\/midterm-thoughts\/","title":{"rendered":"Midterm Thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It&#8217;s been a while, so I figured I should give an update on how this class has been going for me. I was assigned to the Malware Analysis project like I wanted, and got put with some pretty cool teammates. The project requirements ended up being much more flexible than I initially believed it to be, with our group essentially being able to dictate the difficulty\/extensiveness of the project as long as it meets the baseline requirements of analyzing malware on a virtual network of machines. That&#8217;s probably for the best, as more strict guidelines would have probably turned this into essentially a 2 week long lab. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure how I expected the course to be, but it&#8217;s a lot more like my cybersecurity classes than I thought it&#8217;d be. A lot of writing and discussion, with there being a big writing assignment due each week. It&#8217;s very similar to the weekly write ups I&#8217;ve had to do in the defense class this term and network security I took in the spring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other than that, the course has been pretty chill so far. Maybe it&#8217;s due to the nature of our project, but there hasn&#8217;t been too much I&#8217;ve had to actually worry about regarding this class. Our group meets up weekly on Discord to discuss the most recent assignment, but we&#8217;re pretty relaxed about anything else as long as we&#8217;re productive. I think being able to mesh well with your group is what can solidify your ability to do group work, because doing that kind of work becomes a lot harder if everyone is constantly stressed out due to strict expectations. Hopefully the rest of the term feels the same way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a while, so I figured I should give an update on how this class has been going for me. I was assigned to the Malware Analysis project like I wanted, and got put with some pretty cool teammates. The project requirements ended up being much more flexible than I initially believed it to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13844,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/kevinscapstone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/kevinscapstone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/kevinscapstone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/kevinscapstone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13844"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/kevinscapstone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/kevinscapstone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/kevinscapstone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions\/9"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/kevinscapstone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/kevinscapstone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/kevinscapstone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}