{"id":36478,"date":"2016-08-12T16:13:43","date_gmt":"2016-08-12T21:13:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cindylorraineblog.wordpress.com\/?p=36"},"modified":"2016-08-13T09:43:11","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T14:43:11","slug":"my-thoughts-on-the-talk-with-maggie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kenscourses.com\/tc2027fall2016\/syndicated\/my-thoughts-on-the-talk-with-maggie\/","title":{"rendered":"My thoughts on the talk with Maggie"},"content":{"rendered":"

--Originally published at Mental Droppings of a Tired Student<\/a><\/a><\/em>
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For our second session, we had guest speakers come in and talk to us about different experiences they have had in their careers, predominantly with a focus on hacking and security of course.<\/p>\n

Maggie shared with us her experience speaking in front of 2000+ people at Defcon about her \u00a0studies regarding GFCIs, disabling hairdryers using signals\u00a0from a walkie-talkie. \u00a0She shared with us how she got her internship at Intel, how she worked with amazing people and how she was fortunate enough to transition to a job in the US under Intel as well. She even shared a bit of humorous personal experiences that related to her work and inspired her to continue to work on what she loved.<\/p>\n

The only fault I found in her talk was that it was hard for me to relate, her story seemed like a fairy tale and I’m sitting over here like “wow it must be cool to have your life together”. So I started thinking, why would the teacher ask us to stand up and scream “It’s okay to fail”, and follow it up with a story of success?<\/p>\n

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In the q&a session, I decided to take the opportunity to ask her to share a story of failure, so that an underachiever such as myself could relate. I think my delivery of such request came off a little more coarse than I intended. It wasn’t my intention to come off as such a Debbie downer, but it kind of comes natural to me. Hopefully my question wasn’t as memorable.<\/p>\n

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In response to my request she spoke about how it’s okay to feel like a failure\u00a0because it means you are constantly improving and shows your will to keep learning and bettering yourself. I had never thought

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\"\"<\/div> it from that perspective, so I was satisfied with her answer. Her talk in general was very inspirational and she has a great bubbly personality. I admire the ease with which she communicates with people and gets her ideas across.<\/p>\n

I saw her presentation at Defcon22 at Youtube. I really liked it, she did amazing and the crowed seemed to like her as well. She spoke fondly of Mexico and was represented like a boss.<\/p>\n

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