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By: Gillian Follett ’22

Ghufran Salih ’20 was excited to move to California to begin her career in IT after graduating from the iSchool at Syracuse University in May 2020. However, making this pivotal transition in her life during the COVID-19 pandemic heaped an incredible amount of stress onto her, in addition to the anxiety she already felt from getting adjusted to an unfamiliar place and a new job. 

“I wasn’t mentally prepared for as much isolation as I felt,” she said. “I was in this new space in this new city, and I was just nervous and sad all the time.” 

Fortunately, Salih discovered a (somewhat unconventional) way to distract herself from her anxieties: starting a TikTok account that focuses on educating people about data privacy and security.

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Beginning Oct. 21, 2020, Zoom at Syracuse University cloud recordings that are more than 120 days old will move to the Zoom “Trash” for 30 days before being permanently deleted. For longer-term storage, you can upload recordings to Kaltura MediaSpace. Please note that all Zoom meetings recorded to the cloud after Aug. 10, 2020, have been and will continue to be copied to Kaltura automatically.

You can view and manage your Zoom cloud recording(s), including the option to download them, recover them or delete them, by visiting our Managing Zoom Cloud Recordings page. To ensure you retain cloud recordings you want to keep, please review the following information and instructions based on the age of your recordings. Continue Reading

By: Gillian Follett ’22

Cayla Dorsey graduated from Syracuse University in the middle of a global pandemic. Despite the extra hurdles added to the already chaotic process of transitioning from college to the workplace, she managed to persevere and achieve her dream job of working as a user experience writer at Microsoft.
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The ITS Behind the Monitor crew dips into the mailbag to answer questions from real Syracuse University students and faculty. Topics discussed: changing your name in Outlook, sketchy job offers, uploading Zoom recordings to Kaltura, and more!