Lessons Learned From a Day in the Life

I've finished writing up a day in the life story. I wrote about Forrest Swick and Jessica Raymond, the security analysts who work for UNC.

The biggest challenge I faced with this story was that while I learned a ton about how network security works, it was hard for me to find the best vignettes I could write about.

The easiest part was getting the information, Forrest and Jessica were really friendly and helpful, and it was fun to hang out with some fellow geeks for a couple of hours talking computers.

The most important things that I learned from the assignment was how to make my computer a lot more secure than it was, I'm going to get some security programs. The most important thing I got out of this as a journalist was the importance of talking to people and getting information as far away from your deadline as possible, time is a precious commodity for a journalist with a deadline, and I'm going to start utilizing it.