You think you know what you’re doing. You pick your major and select classes that seem interesting and meet your requirements. You’re already visualizing yourself in a cap and gown at the Pete. Then your advisor informs you that you’re missing a few required classes. Or you decide your major wasn’t right for you after all. Perhaps you realize you’re just a couple classes away from a minor. Or the graduate programs you’re applying to have required courses you didn’t take. Are you stuck in this lane, even if it’s not what you want or need?

New Year’s Resolutions. Some people make life-changing goals that are really hard to achieve. Others reject the concept entirely as guilt-inducing hype. This year, I fall somewhere in the middle — I’m making a few tech-related resolutions that will actually be fun to keep.

Do you lay awake at night, pondering your future and wondering how you will possibly make yourself marketable to employers? Don’t lose sleep over it. The key to career growth is to build a compelling resume/online profile and to leverage the relationships you’re forming at Pitt and beyond. Here are six simple steps to leverage LinkedIn to put yourself on the pathway to career success.

We here in Pitt IT have a special place in our hearts for tech gadget gifts. Everyone thinks laptops, gaming systems, and headphones when they think about tech items. But we tracked down six tech gadgets at a variety of prices that are a lot more fun for everyone on your list, regardless of tech skill.

Affordable Gems

iFox Portable Bluetooth Shower Speaker

Ah, the thrill of finals week—a rollercoaster of cramming, late-night study sessions, and an alarming spike in caffeine consumption. But fear not! Students can prepare for the final stretch using an array of cutting-edge technological resources that can greatly enhance efficiency and effectiveness. So stop worrying and start preparing!

Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, Cyber Monday, Giving Tuesday … the next week is gonna be crazy! While you’re finding great deals online, Pitt IT wants to help you protect your hard-earned cash from the scammers that pop up every year. About 36% of Americans have fallen prey to an online shopping scam according to a recent Norton survey — bah humbug! Here is what’s on our holiday wish list for you when shopping online.

Hundreds of writing assignments, presentations, data sheets, and images to keep track of. Countless classmates and colleagues to communicate with. Not enough storage on your computer and your Google account is rapidly filling up. Now that we’re settled into the fall semester, these worries may sound all too familiar. Yet have no fear — the solution to all these problems and more is easily accessible to you at Pitt at no additional cost.

You may have heard that Pitt Information Technology just rolled out a brand-new IT Services Portal powered by TeamDynamix, and we couldn’t be more thrilled to get you started.

So, what exactly is this IT Services Portal, and why should you be excited about it? Well, it’s your one-stop shop for all services offered to students, faculty, and staff through Pitt IT. The portal is designed to make your life easier in three key areas: understanding tech services, accessing help articles, and submitting help tickets.

Ensuring everyone in a group can share information, stay up to date, and coordinate their work is a challenge. Shared folders and documents can be a whole production, but many collaboration tools (like Teams and Project) can be overkill for a short-term project or regular team meetings. There’s no need to get overly dramatic — Microsoft OneNote has the perfect solution for making sure your cast is all reading from the same script. (Note: a shared notebook is a personal notebook that can be accessed and edited by multiple people.