System Integration

During my second year at community college, I took my first Information Systems class. My biggest takeaway from this class was the idea of abstraction. The professor introduced this concept relating it to automobiles, and the fact that most people who know how to drive a car, don't fully understand the systems that contribute to the experience of driving. The professor then took the rest of the semester to give us a broad understanding of Computer Systems and limit our level of abstraction to them. Since this class, I have committed many hours to learning and understanding computers to get to a point in which I could become a sort of mechanic of computers, aiming to achieve the lowest level of abstraction possible from both the hardware and software that facilitates computation.