jrtechs-NodeJSBlog/blogContent/posts/other/2019-in-review.md

Following the tradition I started last year, I'm making a quick "year in review" blog post. At this point year in review posts are cliché, however, I want to continue the tradition because reflection helps me move forward with a focused vision on what is important. I'm going to chunk this into semesters because that is how my college brain thinks right now.

Spring Semester

During the spring semester, I was on CO-OP at RIT doing research.

Talks Given

• Intro to R
• Graph Databases
• Adversarial Networks in Cyber Security
• How Hackers use Genetic Algorithms to Develop Malware

Favorite Blog Posts Written

• College Cooking
• Making a Genetic Algorithm
• Closer Look at Fitbit Data
• Multi Threaded File IO

RIT Datafest

Data fest is a hackathon for undergraduate students to tackle a problem using a complex dataset. I helped my team develope a neural network that predicts fatigue and performance for women's rugby players.

Brick Hack

At brickhack I created an interactive website that allows you to make friends graphs using the GitHub API.

Imagine RIT

At imagine RIT I presented my musical floppy drive project with RITlug.

Summer Semester

During the summer semester, I continued my research CO-OP out in Rome NY.

Photography

During the summer I picked back up my long lost photography hobby.

Pixely Falls

Oriskany Battlefield

Trip to NJ/NYC

Boldt Castle

4th Of July Fireworks

Little Falls

RIT Observatory

RIT Research Symposium

Near the end of the summer I presented a part of my research at the RIT Undergraduate research symposium.

Fall Semester

During the fall semester I was a busy bee:

• Took 5 classes
• SWEN 261 TA
• Part-time Research Assistant
• RITlug President
• RIT AI Member
• FOSS @ RIT MAGIC member

Talks Given

• Welcome to RITlug
• Into to R
• Shells 101
• Raspberry PI 101
• Hacktoberfest
• Everything SSH!
• Organized and ran a Student Panel on Open Source software during The Future is Open Conference

Highlighted Blog Posts

• Developing an AI to Play Asteroids
• Responsible Optimization
• Teaching SSH Through a CTF

Maker Faire

This year as RITlug's president, I organized our presence at the Rochester Maker faire.

Favorite Day Trips

Cobbs Hill Park

Hamlin Beach

Chimney Bluffs

Favorites of 2019

Movie

Rocketman

Picture Taken

Song

Dance Monkey

TV Show

Mr. Robot Season 4

YouTube Video

Book

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

Selfie

I'm not a huge fan of selfies, but, I liked this photo enough to put it on Linkedin profile.