Hi all, my name is Datavion McDowell. Long before I enrolled to be a student at Milwaukee Area Technical College (MATC), pursing my degree in IT Networking, I knew a career in technology was the best fit for me. As a child I was fascinated by all things technology, from a simple SD card to complex computer systems. When I was about 12 years old my mother bought a PC for the house, I was ecstatic! Once I came home from school and finished my homework, that PC became mine. I would go through all the settings in the operating systems trying to configure things and to see how things worked. My mother eventually told me that I could no longer stay inside all day fiddling with the computer because I needed to let others use it more often. Then one day when I was playing board games in the basement with my brothers, I stumbled upon a large and heavy cardboard box. I opened it to see what was inside and to my utter surprise, it was a PC with all the necessary components! I immediately began to...