S-STEM Scholar Wyatt Bylbie's Blog

 Like most students, many do not either get a job or an internship to help build those valuable skills for future work. Without them, students build those same skills, if not different ones while in school. For myself, one valuable skill I gained was time management. Before covid and even now, I coached with the high school students in cross country and wrestling. During those times and even today, time management is crucial to my success. Often, I do not get back home until 6:00 pm. Those days I am leaving around 9:00 am. Using that college experience into employer desired, I can create the time needed to complete tasks and know how much time I will need for said task. Another experience I picked up and learned was knowing how to efficiently take good notes to form good studying habits. In the field of Applied Computing- Cybersecurity, technology is constantly changing. Because of that, being able to take readable notes and study on your own time is needed to learn the new technol...

 Before starting college, I knew I wanted a degree. Even then and more importantly now after coming back, I didn’t want that degree to collect dust. After considering my options I settled with Applied Computing (Cybersecurity), after not being able to pursue Computer Science. Which works out for me. My degree is more focused on a topic, rather than being broad. Although Applied Computing (Cybersecurity) can be broad as well. You need to find a topic to study more in. It could be cloud-based security or even internet of things security. The perfect scenario would be to find a cybersecurity job with my degree and build off the job, meaning having to get any certifications to either help get a job or make the job easier if possible. Even if I do not use the degree in that field, I do not think the degree will collect dust. I have always said that the backup plan would be to teach high school students with the connections I have made coaching high school sports. Possibly a math teacher...