2020: Hannah's Blog

So... today was the last day of classes as a junior in college. And the last day of online classes. I hadn't even remembered until 25 minutes into the Zoom meeting since I had been up for several nights in a row completing other stuff. In a way, I can't wait for the semester to end. But now that the end is near, I have no idea how to distract myself from everything else. I'm likely being a pessimist because my body should have force quit on me quite awhile ago. And so I must leave these last few famous words. I can't wait for things to get better.

First Story: Feeling Whitney Can I get a "hell yeah" for finally  completing my first story? Everything has been so crazy since the virus outbreak and transitioning to online-only classes that writing became one of the last on my list of priorities, unfortunately.  I'm a little embarrassed at how long it ended up being, especially since I didn't realize until after I had written it that we were given a 1000 word limit... BUT I'm proud to say I wouldn't want to change a single thing about it. I'm convinced the story's length is necessary to portray the big idea I had for it, hopefully I have enough juice left to pop out another story or two!  The only thing I'm a little worried about is losing my classmate's interest when they come across the novel-length story and that no one will read it to its entirety. I hope some will, though, as I think they'll come to love it even half as much as I did writing it. I'm feeling confid

DuckDuckGo logo I downloaded the Tor browser not too long ago, a necessary tool to download a lot of usually expensive textbooks for free! When I saw the description for DuckDuckGo search engine as a tech tip assignment to explore, I recognized it immediately. The Tor browser uses this search engine by default. I think it's quite easy and straightforward to use. It doesn't stem far from the use of Google Chrome or Bing. The one thing I don't like about it too much is that you can't re-search previous searches since it's a private web browser, but if you could then I suppose it would defeat it's purpose. For those of you unfamiliar with DuckDuckGo, it's simply a search engine that allows you go incognito with you internet use. I definitely recommend this search engine for your private browsing needs.