Hi @Ryan_Frost the mongod command you ran will start the server and then log all output to the current terminal, unless you state where to write the log data.
At the bottom of that log (third line from the bottom) it says that the server is listening on port 27017. Since you’re bound to localhost (that information is towards the middle of the log file) you should be able to start a new terminal window and run the mongo command to connect to the database and open a new MongoDB shell.
Are you having problems connecting to the MongoDB server? If so what errors are you getting?