{"id":29,"date":"2022-01-16T00:19:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-16T00:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/student.wp.odu.edu\/zkoch001\/?p=29"},"modified":"2022-04-24T22:47:44","modified_gmt":"2022-04-24T22:47:44","slug":"entry-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/student.wp.odu.edu\/zkoch001\/2022\/01\/16\/entry-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Entry One"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p><strong>Why are you interested in cybersecurity technology?<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Cybersecurity has always been a personal interest of mine since I was young. There were many things I didn&#8217;t get into such as sports, dance, arts. They were things I didn&#8217;t comprehend or have any interest in. However, I was always interested in technology, specifically computers. I was always glued to my screen trying to learn more about what technology had to offer. In high school, I was introduced to my first glimpse of computer science through classes and teachers. I quickly became the <em><strong>IT<\/strong><\/em> kid and was asked to help when technology got in the way.<br><br>What truly expanded my interest in computer science was my high school teacher who was enthusiastic about the subject. She wasn&#8217;t as familiar with it but was excited to teach it, so we all had the opportunity to learn as we went. I was also able to enjoy competing in competitions.<br><br>Later on, I came to realize that computer science as a whole was too much for me to handle. Yet I was the <strong><em>IT<\/em><\/strong> kid, but was in a small town which screamed <strong>football<\/strong> everyday. It was difficult but I still wanted to do it, so I opted for a branch of computer science- cybersecurity. My interest in cybersecurity really hit when I took my first criminal justice class, and I knew I wanted to be in on the action of defending and protecting information.<br><br>Long story short, my interest in cybersecurity bloomed from a personal interest since I was young to a developed enthusiasm now. I&#8217;m interested in cybersecurity because it&#8217;s a form of protections and defense that I can understand and visualize. It&#8217;s something that ever-expanding and ever growing, and I want to be apart of that growth. I want to be someone who joins early to see it&#8217;s never-ending beauty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">Why are you interested in cybersecurity technology? <a href=\"https:\/\/student.wp.odu.edu\/zkoch001\/2022\/01\/16\/entry-one\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23040,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wds_primary_category":0},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/student.wp.odu.edu\/zkoch001\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/student.wp.odu.edu\/zkoch001\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/student.wp.odu.edu\/zkoch001\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/student.wp.odu.edu\/zkoch001\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23040"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/student.wp.odu.edu\/zkoch001\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/student.wp.odu.edu\/zkoch001\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61,"href":"https:\/\/student.wp.odu.edu\/zkoch001\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions\/61"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/student.wp.odu.edu\/zkoch001\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/student.wp.odu.edu\/zkoch001\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/student.wp.odu.edu\/zkoch001\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}