Composing Technology

My name is Soleil, and I have just realized how incredibly little I know about the technology I'm using to type this message to you.
I'm sitting in Ms Jungman's (pronounced Yungman) computer science class. This is required for Trinity students to take a course that will make us "technologically literate".  I assumed, when I first enrolled in this class, that I would be sitting in a cold room, staring at boring tutorials of how to use basic Windows programs.  I considered myself enough of a computer user to recognize the fact that I could, in fact, turn on (and off) the device.  The second day of class, I realized how incredibly wrong I was.

To better introduce myself, I might want to add the viewpoint that I will be taking this blog on.  Ever since elementary school, I've known myself to be a Writer. I taught myself to type by creating stories on my dad's old work laptop.  They spanned anywhere from 1 paragraph to 100 pages.  While I have had less time to keep creating such huge amounts of creative stories, I do find that I still have the mind and passion of a writer.  My past times will be devoted to writing (and reading) about everything that I might find interesting.  This will include technology.  Technology is such a vital part of everybody's lives, it's hard to not become interested in what has pushed society forward in such a short amount of time.  It's time that I become more familiar with what technology actually is, and how it came to be.
My interest in technology isn't nearly as unfounded (or forced) as you might think.  I'm actually a huge science fiction nerd,  so technology is just right around the corner.  To feed my curiosity of just how machines work, I joined my high school's robotics team, and became the co-captain during my senior year.  I don't want you to get the wrong idea though; I made sure I was far away from the programming team when they started talking about coding (I learned the hard way that their "raspberry pi" is not the same as my "raspberry pie". I don't know, it's a computer thing).   With that in mind, I can build a rad robot (that won't move, because I don't know how to program), or a rad cabinet.  Whichever you prefer.

This seems like a good place to sign off! With love, a devastatingly ignorant science fiction nerd.

PS: If you have a need to contact me, feel free to email me at LGaffner@trinity.edu