Yes, I pack my own wired mechanical keyboard and wired gaming mouse.Yes, they’re both from Lenovo Legion.No, I’m not heading to a tournament.I’m heading to a Board meeting, a server room, or another brutal 3-hour grad school Zoom session.Because I’m a semi-retired gamer, a working grad student, and a network engineer in the making who still believes in the power
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Fall does not arrive with leaves. It arrives with latency, pop-up reminders, and professors who post the syllabus three days late and still expect you to be early. There is no chill in the air. Only dread. The kind that smells like old textbooks and tastes like stale coffee. I return to battle. Again. Another graduate program. This time in
What Failing CISM Taught Me About Cybersecurity (and Humility) So, I took the CISM exam. And I failed. Not in a cute, “missed it by one point!” way either. More like, “Well that escalated quickly” level of failure. Picture the Titanic, but instead of an iceberg, it was 150 scenario-based questions that punched me square in the professional pride. Let