Week 1

This journal entry is due on Tuesday, September 8, at midnight PDT. (Thursday night/Friday morning)

Overview

The purpose of this assignment is three-fold:

1. To set up your individual user page on this wiki as an online resume or curriculum vitae (CV). This will allow the instructors and other students in the course to get to know you. This page is also available to the public and can be used as a professional resume/CV.
2. To learn the skills needed to edit this wiki and set up your template, which you will use for all subsequent assignments in this course.
3. To begin the process of self-reflection on the shared journal page.

Individual Journal Assignment

User Page

Set up your individual user page on this wiki (accessible via your username at the top of the page). Your user page should take the form of a résumé or, in academic circles, a curriculum vitae. Dr. Dahlquist and Dr. Dionisio have such pages, both within this wiki (user page) and online in general. You may use those as starting points. As students, your information may be different from ours. At a minimum, you should include:

1. Name
2. Contact Information
   • Email address (We recommend that you use do not use a "mailto" link for this, but give your address as username at domain so that web crawlers cannot pick it up and subject your account to spam.)
   • LMU snail mail address
3. Education
   • Major
   • Expected graduation year
   • Upper division courses in biology, chemistry, math, and computer science that you have taken (including those in which you are enrolled this semester)
4. Career interests and goals (if you know)
   • Description of any independent research projects in which you have been involved, including:
     • Title of project
     • Mentor's name
     • List of presentations and/or publications resulting from the project
5. Work experience
   • Position/title
   • Employer
   • Dates
   • Responsibilities
6. Personal interests/hobbies
7. What is your favorite aspect of biology and why?
8. What is your favorite aspect of computer science and why?
9. Feel free to customize your page in any way you wish, bearing in mind that this site is public and that you should present a professional face to the world.