Best Advice

Complete every assignment without procrastinating and enjoy what you do.

To all incoming students I can only tell you to come prepared to learn a lot and do things you never imagine you were able to do. If you don’t want to learn, this class is not for you, but if you do, this class will help you learn many things that will help you in the future. But to make sure you do good in this class you need to follow some advice. First, do all your homework assignments and classroom assignments right away and follow the directions given. Second, do not procrastinate. You will find that all the work is not hard, rather fun, and learning but it is time consuming. If you wait until the last minute you will find yourself frustrated when you were supposed to have fun. Lastly, don’t be afraid to ask questions! Ms. Belisle is always there to answer your questions and she is glad to repeat or explain something that you didn't understood. If you don’t ask you will get stuck there so ask questions and you’ll find everything easier.
This is a class worth taking that you will learn a lot while having fun. Good luck and enjoy!!!

My Favorite Websites

I was very shocked to see all the different amazing things people came up with. They all did a really good job on their web pages but the three I liked the most where Andreas, Morgans, and Courtney's.
Andrea's website was just very professional looking and had amazing pictures. Her use of many black and white images was awesome. Her site was very easy to navigate and the fonts chosen where just perfect for her theme.
Morgans website was very exiting to look at because she talked about converse, something that is really cool. She had a very nice, professional looking home page that lead to very interesting pages with a lot of fascinating information. Her navigation bar was really creative. The layout and colors enhance her whole website.
Courtney's website was full of color. She used alot of colorful pictures and a colorful background. Her snake with the navigation bar was just so creative. Her page look very professional because of her layout and the way she provided alot of information. Her pages were very interesting and done with specific attention to every detail.

My Website

Please visit my website at www.cs.trinity.edu/~mrangel. My website is about restaurants here in San Antonio that serves the different food like Chinese, American, Italian, and Mexican food. If a tourist or people who want to try a new place to eat want to know where they can find their favorite food this is where they should go. Making my website was easier than I taught making a website would be because it didn’t required hand coding every single thing. I found it easy to make after I got the hang of it but before I was struggling. For the most part I used Expression web because I felt it was easy and clear to navigate around and fix things. I mostly used the design view to create the webpage but did use hand code when I wanted to change something that got hard in the design like background colors. The biggest technical challenge I faced was that I created a lot of things for my webpage in Photoshop then when I wanted to used them in Expression it didn’t allowed me to write text or work the way I expected to. I struggled to fix this Photoshop pictures but at the end ended up starting my webpage all over because they didn’t t work and part was erased. I also had little difficulty in the design of my webpage, when I posted on the web some pictures didn’t appear in the page and my navigation bar buttons where also missing. I had trouble with that in addition I had trouble working with the tables to get the pictures the way that I wanted because when I moved one side it would distort the rest of the table. But besides these challenges I tried very hard to accomplish what I wanted: an attractive, interesting, and professional-looking webpage. I really feel proud of the fact that I created a webpage by myself but I am very proud of my welcoming page. I felt this page had a warm welcoming and looked like a professional page done by an expert web designer. One thing I would have changed would have been the amount of information I gave in my website. I felt I just guided people where to look for places instead of listing one by one and giving a review on each restaurant.

Creating this website started as a nightmare for me as I had many difficulties but ended up being a very enjoyable project. I really feel that this was a great learning experienced that gave very good results. I have already shown my website to my family and they couldn’t believe I did it. I will try to show it to my friends that are from out of town so they can use it more as a reference. I am not sure if I will make another website for another class in the future but I will definitely create one for my personal things like about my family or any collections I have.

Larry Hechler's Presentation

Larry Hechler’s presentation on hardware and computer maintenance was a phenomenal presentation. We usually use and use our computers and learn how to use all the different programs we can install but we don’t really pay attention on maintaining the computer in good conditions. Talking about the hardware and the prices it cost for repairing was a great thing because we sometimes don’t realized that a little piece of plastic can cost a lot. Also, the things that can harm the computer were great to know to make sure bad experiences don’t occur to us. The main thing that I learned from his presentation was that we should let our computers run until it warns you that you have a small percentage of battery remaining. I always had the perception that when you use the computer you should plug it back in when you are done so the battery will last longer. But the reality is the opposite: you are setting the computer to understand that it could only run for a little while before it needs to recharge so you shouldn’t charge it if you only used it a little. The computer will then get used to being charge constantly that when you disconnect it from the battery it will only last a small amount of time before it needs to recharge. I personally can relate to that because I would “overcharge” my laptop and now when I disconnect it, it only last a little time. I taught it was because it was getting old, but now I know that it was my entire fault for overcharging it.

This was very interesting to learn from his presentation, but am surprise that when you buy your laptop at the store they don’t tell you this. I think it’s because they will sell more in the future since we will replace them faster.

PPT Presentation

Doing a PowerPoint presentation was a learning experience. While at first it had seem to be easy to just do four slides on your career of interest or any subject that is important, it was not as simple. First, it was choosing a right topic that was not so general. I decided to do by presentation on Forensic Science specifically on Women in the field of Forensic science. Since,  I am  interested in pursuing a career in this field in the future, I had so many to show and say about this topic but was limited to only four slides. I have to admit while I spend many hours playing with the animations, setting the specific time to fit the presentation and at times frustrated to not get it right, I really enjoyed creating this presentation. Not only because I was interested in the topic but because I made me be creative and use different tools in PowerPoint that I had never used before. The most important things I learned from this project is how to use the custom animation to have various pictures enter and leave in the same slide while having words come in and leave with the pictures. I definitely felt proud of my presentation because I think the music, pictures, and dark colors used in the presentation fit my topic of mystery and crime. But one thing I would of changed would have been adding a video into the presentation showing some action in the forensic science field would have created a visual and be more interesting presentation.

While I taught all the presentations were amazing and very interesting and unique in their way, I really enjoyed the presentations of Katie and Esther. When I saw Katie’s Sushi presentation I was like “nasty sushi” because I don’t like sushi. But with her beautiful and variety of pictures contrasted by the black background everything seem so good and delicious. Plus, when she gave the recipe and said it was not raw fish, I was excited to hear that and was already planning to get some sushi for lunch that day. For Esther’s ballet presentation, I really liked the music that was played throughout the presentation it really match the theme of ballet. Plus the various pictures and the animations used just fitted perfect in creating this calm and relax atmosphere. The colors used, the video shown and the animation of the ballet shoes made the presentation even better and more interesting.

Piture that Lies




Manipulated Piture



Original Picture





     At a first glance you might just see a normal picture of a baby with a rabbit sitting outside. This was exactly what I intended to do. I had this idea of creating an Easter picture that lie because it is almost Easter day. I started by having a rabbit which I got from the internet (flickr.com) but seem too lonely so I decided to include a human. As I was looking for a human the idea of having a baby holding or touching the rabbit came to mind. Finding a baby in that position of holding something was difficult. But when I had it I used the opacity tool to be able to see the rabbit picture in top of the baby picture, while positioning the rabbit in the hands of the baby. Using the eraser tool I erased the parts of the rabbit picture that were on the way of letting the baby connect directly to the rabbit. It was a little difficult trying to go around the rabbit and erase everything else. Once I was done the baby seem to be holding the rabbit from the neck. I really liked it but the background of the picture didn’t match and it seemed obvious that the rabbit didn’t belong there, so I decided to look for a background that would fit with the picture. Since it is an Easter theme I decided to add spring flowers. I used the same tool of erasing the parts to show the baby and the rabbit and the flowers in the back. I also used the cloning tool to clone some parts that I erased accidently or to lines around the figures to make it less noticeable that these where picture put together. I continued by changing  the photograph to make it more real,  by using the brightness/ contrast in  some of the layers to make them brighter but  not that bright  because I wanted to  cast a small shadow from the right direction. Then, I used the hue/saturation to change just the lightness of the picture a bit.

      I felt that this manipulation was not harmful to anyone because I didn’t change the pictures a lot to create new features (on the boy) or to change the whole perception of the photograph (deform the rabbit). I actually change the meaning just because I added the three pictures together to form one. Since the little boy is smiling and as he “holds” the rabbit in his hands this seems as a picture taken in a happy moment, which is usually what we capture pictures of, people may not suspect it’s a fake picture. It is the background of flowers that might be questionable if it’s real of fake but not so much because it seems to be a natural environment.

     Creating this picture that lies proved the arguments claimed in the article I read called “"The truth of a single instant" Focusing on the issue of photo manipulation” by Susan Balcom Walton. My photo might represent a single instant of a little boy outside in a spring day but it’s not true. This just shows how easily a picture can be modified and changes its meaning. I just change and put together some photos using Photoshop without having any restrictions on what I can do and what not. That is why I think guidelines should be established to prevent more harmful photo alternating.





Photo Manipulation

“The Truth of a Single Instant” Focusing on the issue of photo manipulation

By Susan Balcom Walton

Manipulating pictures to fit your purposes or for your convenience has become a common thing to do now and days. While they are using technology to change/ alter photographs to make them more appealing, dramatic, or more “perfect,” they are making this conception that all photos are altered so nobody can trust photographs anymore. While we may take pictures to remember that moment in the future or to have evidence or something, it can no longer be reliable. As described in this article, “No painting can tell the truth of a single instant: no snapshot can do anything” (Walton). As stated in this quote I truly agree with it because you might have a picture that you thing it represents an instant in the past but this cannot tell you the reality because you don’t know if it has been altered or changed by anyone else. One might not suspect about a picture being manipulated because it seems “original” but with the technology today it is very easy for someone to alter a photograph and if done with care it can be changed without having any clue that it has been altered.

While many people may think that image manipulation is a recent thing done with new technology in the 21^st century it is not fully true. Back in 1996 when the society of Professional Journalist revised its code of ethics it was already being question, and “while the code was not specifically revised in response to photo manipulation issues, people had brought up the fact that New Media should be considered.” The code of ethics helps but doesn’t prevent from the continuation of photo manipulation.

Very surprisingly, we find out in this article that many institutions of higher learning have encountered photo manipulation. For example, Brigham Young University has already established guidelines that “simplifies the decision-making process and increases the awareness of everyone involved in selecting and producing materials” after a photo raised questions about airbrushing a photo (Walton). While this might seem little that is not all. Other schools like the University of Wisconsin-Madison have composed a photograph to reflect diversity for their admissions brochure. When we see school brochures and we see diversity we actually believe it, so altering the photograph means that it’s not true but it’s just to attract more students which is to harm others. Besides common people, schools that are supposed to set example of higher learning are altering picture, so what makes us think that official authorities or the government is not doing the same? We can no longer trust any photograph because it might not be the reality.

In this article it gave an example of a video that had a small but noticeable mark of a certain organization and their decisions to fix that. It gives the reasons of leaving the mark hoping for nobody to notice it and think they support that organization, or manipulating the photo, or conduct a new shoot but spend more money. While conducting a new shoot will cost more money and more time it is the correct manner to handle a thing like this. But that is the main problem with society today they want everything the easiest way possible they don’t want to go through all the trouble again so they would just preferred to alter the photo to meet their wants.

Photo manipulation is just everywhere and anywhere. We might not even realize it but its there. So how can we trust photos? How do we know if they have not been altered? One must follow their own judgments and analyzed if it has been altered or not. But remember a photograph can easily fool our eyes.

Works Cited

Walton, Susan Balcom. "The truth of a single instant" Focusing on the issue of photo manipulation." Public Relations Tactics 14.11 (2007): 25. Business Source Complete. EBSCO. Web. 5 Apr. 2011.

Chris Nolan's Presentation

Chris Nolan’s presentation was a very shocking presentation. I found interesting all the things he said about the internet websites, I just couldn’t believe it. The most important thing that I learned from his presentation is on the credibility of internet websites. When, we search or look up something in the internet we take for granted that all the information provided is going to be correct. While the website might look professional and reliable it might contain bad information. Just like the Martin Luther King page that seem to be good information but when we found out it was written by the white organization it seem a little suspicious, this really surprised me because I would have never imagine this. Another interesting thing I learn was about what determines the result that come up and in the order they appear when you search something in Google. It is amazing how the links back to a certain webpage determine where it is listed. Learning that JcPenny did fake webpage’s linking to their site to appear in the top list was shocking because I would had never imagine this from a leading company. One should be watch out on the information gathered from the internet and try to use the scholar tab in Google or databases that provide more reliable information for research papers or for scholarly information

What kills a PowerPoint Presentation?

Today, visual Presentations have become an important way to present information to others. That’s why majority of the people use Microsoft PowerPoint to create these presentations because it’s a program that facilitates and gives many options for your presentation. Whether it’s a business presentation, a lecture for a class, or just a picture slide show, it really matters how it is presented. The way it is made and presented are very important because if not done correctly it will just be a waste of your time because the people who are seeing it would not pay attention to it.

I can remember the worst PowerPoint presentation I had to sit through was in my high school history class. It might have been because my teacher was kind of old that he didn’t make the presentation very presentable. One of the main things that I hated was that the slides where totally filled with words or pictures. It just made me feel dizzy looking at all these words. But the worst thing was that the teacher read word by word out of the presentation. Why does he even make the presentation? He should just give us the information and we can read it. He was reading it to us like if we didn’t know how to read.

Another bad thing was the inconsistency in the background colors/ design and font. Every single slide had a different background color. Some had designs that made it hard to read the text that it had. It just frustrated me to not be able to read it that I just gave up and just stared at the screen. The change in fonts also was very frustrating. At times he will have a font that were not readable and in other slides a plain boring font with no creativity.

The teacher inserted historical letters, pictures, or parts of documents into the presentation. Which I find a very interesting thing to do to reference back. But the problem here was that they were too small to read what they said and too many pictures together that didn’t give focus to one particularly. So, when they tell you that it’s too small to read, I ask myself then why did they put it there if it’s worthless.

While he tried to make it an “exciting presentation” by adding sounds and transitions, he just made it worst. He had text entering one letter at a time which took a lot of time to get all the text inside. And when it was clicked to go to the next slide the words and pictures did some animation like swirl around a couple of times then fly away. This was really distracting and the animations didn’t seem to fit in the correct place. He had sounds and little animated pictures which are good to keep people engaged but since they would play throughout the whole presentation it made it distracting because I would stare at the animated icon or be concentrated on the next sound that came up.

If the teacher had used all these things correctly and in the right amount the presentation would have been a success. But since he didn’t he would lost the interest and engagement of the students. How do you expect to concentrate and stay focus in a presentation like this? So, whenever I do a PowerPoint presentation I try putting myself in the place of my audience. Is it too plain that makes it boring? Distracting? Difficult to understand the words? Confusing? Unnecessary information included? That’s what every presenter should do when they create a PowerPoint presentation so they have a good result when they present it.

CLT

Going to the AT & T Center for Learning and Technology was a learning experience. First of all because I had been to the first floor of the Coates library but I had never saw the CLT center, which is an amazing place to use as a resource. As you walk in there are many computers, PC and Macs, set up in tables in different groups, such as the video/audio section and the presentation section. As we walked in further we noticed many scanners, TV’S and all the rest of the Technology found in this place was all the latest and the most advanced technology. As our guide Robert Chapman (man in charge of TLearn) sat us down on the conference room and talked about everything they had to offer I was surprised to have never heard about this place so I could have used it before. I found out about the computer usage to do videos, edit audio, create presentations, reports, download media, etc. anything with dealing with technology can be done here. I was amazed to know that in that conference room they are able to communicate with up to 15 people at the same time and be seen in the TV screen. Another thing they offer is a room with everything set up like a classroom that gives the students the opportunity to practice in this room for any presentation they might have in their class. Robert told us that they have the latest programs in these computers (for video making/reports/presentations) and that at any time we are welcome and that they can show us how to use them. Also, very interesting was that they have cameras, recorders, etc. that they check out to students to do their projects. The availability of resources and help provided here is really a great thing that all of us should take advantage of it. I think this center will help us if we have questions on how to do presentations or projects for this class or any other class. For me this will be a great opportunity to start developing and practicing how to give professional presentations as that will be a big part of my future business career.



Self-portrait scan done in CLT



EXCEL EXPERIENCE

When I first started this class I knew nothing about Excel except for the fact that it existed. In just a little time I have learned how to do various different things. At first it seems very complicated and confusing but once you get the hang of its fairly easy. All you need to know is how to use the buttons or things provided in Excel and you can finish a document in no time. I have learned how to format cells to a certain color, style, theme, or font. One of the most important things I have learned in Excel is how to use various different functions using both reference cell and absolute cells to make up an equation. Everything is made easier to calculate and organized when you know how to work Excel. I think this will help me in my chemistry and accounting classes in the future when I am asked to organized data, or have different numbers I need to arrange or sort out. This program will definitely benefit me since I want to become a business major I will surely be working with a lot of data and graphs. I have even started using it just to keep track of my grades for other classes. I like the way that everything works in excel, sometimes the only part I kind of dislike is that when you use the “fill handle” sometimes the formulas are changed or read differently than what you intended. But overall, I feel learning Excel will make me better off.

Image Manipulation

Is this really Oprah Winfrey? At a first glance you might think this was a picture of Oprah when she was younger, but in reality it’s not. It might be Oprah’s face but it’s not her body. The body belongs to the actress Ann-Margret. This image of Oprah appeared in the cover of TV Guide back in August 1989. This cover was created by slicing Oprah's head into the body of Ann-Margret which was taken in 1979 in a publicity shot. I mainly choose this picture because if I would have seen it and didn’t read that it had been manipulated it would have fooled me into thinking this was a real picture of Oprah. But I am not the only one fooled because a lot of people are fooled as well. Once it goes into public, people that admire Oprah or that they look up to her might get the message of having to have a great “perfect” body like her. This can cause a lot of harm to other girls especially teenagers who perceived this imagine of having a perfect body like the famous celebrities. Women sometimes become obsess in looking like these famous people that they sometimes stop eating or bring their self esteem down. Images like this one that are manipulated just send the wrong message about being “perfect.”

This was a perfect video that showed the reality in today’s media. When we see one of the celebrities that we wish to be like them we always ask ourselves “how can I get perfect like her?” While the reality is that they are also not perfect. This video shows how a famous celebrity is manipulated with Photoshop and how that “perfect” image is done before it is publicized. Imagine manipulation can really fool one’s eyes and the concept of being perfect. But this video’s purpose is to give the message that even famous people, that we consider perfect, are not perfect, there is no perfect person in the world.

WHO'S TO BE BLAME???

As technology advances every single day we are supposed to become better off but these technology advances sometimes become a terrifying advance that makes us question whether these advances are for the better of the future. Today the internet is a way to communicate, find, or search for any ideals, pictures or any information needed. As technology advances the internet becomes more powerful in all the things you can do with it and what it offers you. Today, the internet has become part of people’s lives: they depend on the internet too much that the world will stop without internet. Internet indeed has helped make life easier but at the same time when not used appropriately it can become a nightmare.

One of the things that internet has advance in is in creating blogs. So what exactly is a blog? “A Blog is short for Web Log and has become a new and exciting form of communication. It is like a diary or a journal personal or corporate that is posted on the Internet for public viewing and updated from time to time. It enables people to publish comments, ideas, and opinions for others to read.” This is a great way to share and read what others have to say about things. While the copyright protects your work from being copied and distributed it doesn’t mean that others don’t use it. The problem comes in when people start taking advantage and start posting things they shouldn’t. If you know other people are viewing this blog don’t you think what you write in it should be something that has a good affect on people, not blogs that can lead others to death? While most of us might say, “Who would want to post something on how to kill yourself?” but the reality is that the internet is being abused and used for thing that shouldn’t be done.  

As we see in the case of the first- year medical student from California posted a blog giving direction on how facilitate and making effective suicide claiming it was in the interest of “serving the rights of competent, terminally ill adults.” This is the type of things that make the use of the internet components a serious danger to users. Like myself you might thinking that why someone would create a blog like this. That, like in this case, causes a teenager that is detected with depression, to commit suicide by overdose of drugs. But then whose fault is it? This is where the laws and morality conflict. Laws are set to have order and punish those who disobey them. But at the same time while its legal, according to a law, to do something doesn’t really mean it is the right thing to do. This is where the use of internet ethics and morality come in conflict with the law.

In this case we can quickly blame the medical student for publishing such a blog that encourages suicide. Doctors are supposed to help and promote health of people not death. So, we think the death of the teenager is the fault of the medical student for publishing this blog. Isn’t it illegal to publish such things? Unfortunately, this posting is protected under the law because the right of freedom of speech and press. The blog is a sort of communication and by posting ones believes, one is protected by the first amendment. While this is legal morality and ethics come into play. It’s just morally wrong to write something that can cause harm and even take lives away of people who read this blog. Good internet ethics include only publishing information, or ideals that do not cause harm to others. So if the medical student is protected by the laws is it then the teenagers fault for her own death? Or is it her parents?

  Realizing that the teenager who committed suicide was being treated for depression one can conclude that she didn’t not had the capacity and complete judgment to realize what she was doing. While it is true that the blog of the medical student did contribute to her decision of committing suicide as she clearly states in her last note to her family that the doctor was “helping her do it right.” But I believe that a person that has depression usually goes through phases where they consider suicide, and she might have ended up committing suicide with or without reading this blog. The parents do have the responsibility to monitor her daughter’s use of internet but there is only up to a point what parents can do for them. They can provide help and support but not change and make the decisions for them.

As we can see in this case, we are not sure who is to blame for this tragedy. While we conclude that it’s the teenagers own fault for doing it, because all other things (posting of blog) is legal but we start questioning the ethics behind the actions of these people. I believe there should be more monitoring of what is being posted. If there had been something that prevented from this post coming to the public view, maybe a life could have been saved. But again it relies back on the morality of users and proper ways of using the internet.

Brister, William. "Ezinearticles." Laws for Blogs (2011): 3. Web. 15 Feb 2011. .

Copyright and Creative Commons

Jason Hardin, manager of access services, came to our class to talk about very important topics which included: copyright laws, fair use, and creative commons. I hadn’t realized the great importance it is to be aware of these laws and what each means because that way you can avoid getting into serious trouble like the case of Harper. She tried to go as innocent but it wasn’t considered because everyone should now about these laws, so this class was a very important thing to learn. But what is copyright exactly? Copyright is the federal assurance given to you (as the author of the work) to protect your work by giving you the right to decide how it’s distributed and used. If copyright laws were not set then people would be discourage to do any original work because it would be so easy for another person to come and take credit for it. So, having copyright laws establish is the best way to promote innovation.

Something that really caught my attention was Fair Share. Fair share is basically the conditions that allow you to use others copyrighted work without paying them. But it’s not automatic. So what do you take in consideration in fair use? The four key points include: 1. purpose of reproduction (basically if it’s for educational purposes your fine), 2. Nature of the reproduced work (the type of work matters), 3.amount of reproduction (it should only be a part of the work not all), and 4. The effect on the marker of the work (is it being distributed to gain profits of any kind?). I believe this is very important because if you are not copying and distributing someone else work as yours to gain something, you shouldn’t need to pay the author. But at the same time the authors are still protected in case someone comes and misuses his works and doesn’t follow the rules of fair use.

Copyright and Creative Commons by Michelle Rangel is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States License.

My Trinity Network Diagram

The  diagram above of Trinity's local Area Connection (LAN)  shows how the network is connected. From your dorm, the Hasell building, the library or anywhere on campus it connects to the Ruth Taylor center. The network works using Ethernet cables, fiberoptic cables, data in closets to proceed everything and be connected to the Internet and school network. You are only allowed to connect to the network if your on-campus.

TRINITY MYSTERY SPOT

WHERE IS THIS MYSTERY PLACE?

This place is located in a highly trafficked area of Trinity. Most students pass this place when they decide to get some food near. This place is highly visited at the beginning and ending of each semester. I changed the picture but I think you are still able to tell where this place is. First, I decided to crop the picture just a bit and flipped it vertically. Then, I decided to use the Pencil sketch feature in Picnik which made it seem like an art sketch. Looking at it, it gave me the idea to disguise it as an Art Shop. Then, I added text that made it look like a store, such as the "open" sign and the store name. Then, to get more creative I decided to insert stickers that looked like drawn or colored objects made by kids. I added different bright colors to those figures to make them look like if they had actually been colored. So can you tell where this place is?

BEST TECH TIP

When Joe Hatch came to our classroom to talk about the things we can do to enhance the performance of our computers, I really felt he shared very important and vital information that all students should know. Many of the information he gave us was new to me. Even though I thought all the tips he gave were great the best one for me was the use of Ccleaner or Onix. I had never taught that a program like Ccleaner will do a lot for your computer. This will help get rid of junk files or any unnecessary data stored in the computer. This will definitely be helpful for my computer that runs super slow and has too many junk files. But besides helping with the junk files I also found interesting that it provides security. It prevents hackers from getting any personal information like bank account numbers, by erasing all that information. Learning this tip will be one of the best things I will use to have a more faster and more secure computer.

NETWORK SERVER DIAGRAM

The Trinity Network is designated to allow the students and professors to connect easily to share files and  access to their personal files anywhere on campus. While the Network allows easier access it is also safe because it has certain restrictions on who can access or view what.

Introduction

Hey Everyone!!! My name is Michelle Rangel and I just go by Michelle. I am currently a freshman here at Trinity University. I was born and raised in San Antonio, Texas. I come from a Hispanic family of eight. I am the second oldest from five girls and a boy. My older sister is a senior at UIW, one sister is in 9^th grade, then I have one in 8^th grade, and the smallest is in 5^th grade. My baby brother is barely two years old so he just stays at home. All my years I attended public schools and graduated from Sidney Lanier High School.

Some of the activities I enjoy doing include: cooking, watching movies, listening to music, spending time with my family and friends, doing community service and playing soccer. I consider myself a shy person at first but once I get to know others I am a really friendly and easy going.

My plan is to graduate with a major in International Business. I plan to participate in clubs such as Latino Exchange and maybe join the soccer team. I like to try new things so maybe I will participate in other sports or academic clubs. But I really like being involved with my school, so for sure I will participate in something.

My knowledge with computers is not very high. I am not very good when It comes to working with all these different programs: I just now basic simple things. I know a little about the programs like excel and Photoshop but not to the point to create something good. So, hopefully I learn a lot in this class and I am able to advance in my tech skills.

If you ever need anything you can contact me at mrangel@trinity.edu