{"id":303,"date":"2025-12-08T10:17:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T10:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/dstaves\/?page_id=303"},"modified":"2025-12-09T23:39:24","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T23:39:24","slug":"reflection-essay-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/dstaves\/reflection-essay-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflection Essay"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>In this reflection essay, I examine how my coursework at Old Dominion University developed my technical abilities, communication strengths, and critical thinking skills as a cybersecurity major. By analyzing the artifacts I selected, I demonstrate how each assignment contributed to my growth as an interdisciplinary learner capable of approaching security challenges from multiple perspectives. I discuss the lessons learned from hands-on technical labs, research-based writing, and case studies that required integrating concepts from technology, ethics, law, and human behavior. Throughout the essay, I also connect these experiences to current job expectations in the cybersecurity field, showing how my academic work has prepared me for real-world professional responsibilities. Overall, this reflection highlights the full scope of my learning and how it shaped my readiness for a future career in cybersecurity.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/dstaves\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40336\/2025\/12\/Reflection-Essay-1.pdf\" class=\"pdfemb-viewer\" style=\"\" data-width=\"max\" data-height=\"max\"  data-toolbar=\"bottom\" data-toolbar-fixed=\"off\">Reflection-Essay-1<br\/><\/a>\n<p class=\"wp-block-pdfemb-pdf-embedder-viewer\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this reflection essay, I examine how my coursework at Old Dominion University developed my technical abilities, communication strengths, and critical thinking skills as a cybersecurity major. By analyzing the artifacts I selected, I demonstrate how each assignment contributed to my growth as an interdisciplinary learner capable of approaching security challenges from multiple perspectives. I&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/dstaves\/reflection-essay-2\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":25260,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/dstaves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/303"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/dstaves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/dstaves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/dstaves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25260"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/dstaves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/dstaves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":374,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/dstaves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/303\/revisions\/374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/dstaves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}