Through browsing my files on my computer, I’ve come to learn more about my organization skills than I had attempted. Upon first glance, I noticed multiple uncategorized audio files in my library with no specific titles. I tried to organize them by placing them in a folder with each specific genre adhering to the audio file. From then on, I continued and found files that date from 2017. I created folders for each respective year after that. Furthering journeying through my files, I noticed the documents section in my left search bar tab, and I’ve always neglected it. Upon further examination, I saw many Computer Science assignments I had sent to the folder without giving them a specific place to stay.
I organized that as much as possible, putting each computer science project in its respective category. I will have as much organization for the future as I can in a computer science course. file management will be prevalent going forward, and developing new habits with my computer organization should have been a more significant priority from the start. Through reading Monica Chin’s “File not Found,” I understood that I was not the only one who had struggled to implement good file-saving habits as, towards the beginning of the text, it is explained that multiple students had not grasped the idea of file-storing and management. The teacher, Catherine Garland, was shocked as she thought it would all be an easy fix, “Perhaps in the shared drive? But over and over, she was met with confusion. ‘What are you talking about?’ multiple students inquired. Not only did they not know where their files were saved — they didn’t understand the question.” Garland realized that most of the folder storing and saving she was used to seemed to be gibberish to a college-level engineering course. I have noticed myself fall under this same trap when it comes to projects that have to do with storing data under specific file locations and accessing memory from a file, I noticed that I tended to fall short with how organized I was. As previously mentioned, the loose audio files were taking over my downloads section, and It was hard to pinpoint everything and place it in a suitable space. Moving forward with my assignments, I will have a pre-existing folder for every necessary work, not just from computer science but also music, because, in the future, I would love to make music and produce it and mix sounds on a turn table. For success in both departments, I plan to update my files and ensure that I am confident about where each file is stored and how the process will play out. Through this process, I have learned more than I anticipated about my organizational skills in general. By doing that, I made folders that adhered to my music files and computer science projects, which helped locate many exciting documents I had forgotten on my computer. This has been a positive experience for me, and it is comforting to know that there is a method by which my folder organization can improve and that other students struggle with it as well.