This is a bit about me.

My name is Matthew Hunter. I used to run track for Hickory High School and play for the varsity soccer team. The reason I am taking this course is because I want to learn more about the Cyber world and how I can help our country via security. When I am older I want to work for the government in cybersecurity.

Personal Narrative Essay 

Matthew Hunter 

3/31/2024 

Freshman 

My road to figuring out what I wanted to do for a living is quite complicated. My freshman year was honestly quite chaotic. There was this thing that kind of took over the world for a little bit it was called covid. It was super  

I have always wanted to help people and I just wanted to find a way that I can I have grown up in a family that my mom was a police officer and then went on to work for the government and my father works for the police department. Also, my grandfather worked for the navy as did my great grandfather. The reason I am saying this is since I have grown up around people helping others and serving their country. The way that I feel like I can help others best is from behind a screen.  

Sophomore 

I have had a few different jobs. However, I have not worked with anything related to the Cyber field. I worked at a movie theater called Cinema Cafe where I worked as a cook with a lot of my friends from high school. 

Junior 

My first two years of college really have not been much for cyber security. I learned and completely nearly all of my pre major and all my elective classes and my next two years I really started to ramp up my cyber field so that I could learn more about what the cyber field is truly about and what they do in the real world. 

Senior 

This year has been a major leap into my cyber security degree and field. I learned and am learning how to code on two different platforms and how to use them. For example, I learned how to code on Python and am learning how to code on Linux. I understand and get how to code. However, I like doing more of the hands-on work like building and fixing stuff, not really the coding. 

As I wrote earlier this semester for a discussion board, “my opinion on work experience is that I learn better from work experience because it is more hands-on, and I can use that information. I have always been this way ever since I was a child. This is a great example of how I am. I would rather be thrown into something and learn that way rather than learning from a book. I have no idea why I learn this way. For me, it is a hands-on experience rather than a book work. I work at a hot dog place where you must make everything a specific way and make it look a certain way. The way I learned was that I went and watched and learned from her.”