S-STEM Scholar Chris Gonzalez's Blog

Week 9 now. This is kind of starting to get to me! So much to do, so little time, so much...procrastination.  In all honesty, there's really not much of an update for this week. I'm still in a bit of the same rut as I was in last week. Admittedly I find myself working on this project whenever I have spare time rather than dedicating time just for getting work done on it. It's that point in the semester where everything magically begins to pile up - midterms, increased homework, the occasional family event; I'm doing my best to roll with the punches, though! I have enough faith in myself that I'll get everything done on time, albeit a little last-minute, as is typical for me (which is also when my best work happens, to be honest). Never before have I seen an image that so eloquently captures my current mental state. I'm still looking forward to Halloween though! I don't have any plans this year (yet) but it's one of my favorite holidays regardless. I gues...

Hey everyone who reads this, all 2 of you. This is week 8 now! I went on a detour out of state for my sister's wedding (and a pretty sweet trip to Disneyland; we miraculously got into Club 33!) and, quite frankly, it goes without saying that I didn't get as much work done as I had hoped. Lately I've just been trying to find good sources for my project – it's a fairly new topic, which makes scholarly resources and journals hard to come by – as well as narrowing down the questions on the survey I'll be doing soon. I'd really love to keep it multiple choice, as I know people tend to skip over forms or find them intimidating, so I'm trying my best to word the questions in a way that would allow that. Aside from that, there's not much else to report on this week. On a somewhat relevant note to my project, during that trip my brother and my mom both received suspicious text messages, both claiming that their credit card information had been stolen and containi...

Hello there! It was nice to have taken a break for a week, but now we must get back to business, beginning with a little background on this research project. My research project seeks to determine how people truly feel regarding the privacy of their personal data, particularly that of which is stored in the cloud. Data privacy, although a relatively new concept as computers and internet-connected devices are much more prevalent nowadays than they were even a decade ago, is usually well documented for cloud services. For example, Apple openly states that your photos, documents, health, home, and contact data (among other things) are sent to their servers on a regular basis, not requiring any user interaction – as long as you are using their iCloud service, that is; Apple heavily encourages you to log in to your Apple ID and utilize iCloud services when first setting up a new device, so it is safe to assume the vast majority of Apple products utilize iCloud to some extent. However, they ...