Blog 10 Discourse Community Paper

Honestly i have no idea what discourse community i want to research/write on.

I was considering writing about computer science majors or something in that field but for one i'm not 100% sure thats a discourse community and 2 i just switched to the major and don't really know much. Then again it is a research paper and i could do research lol. But thinking about whether i could grind out 7+ pages about this topic.. and be interested idk. 

Another community i was considering was video game players.  

Hmmm lets see how would i break this down.

Their communication 

- youtube videos

- twitch / live streams

- reddit 

- over the mic while playing or Voice Chat

Meetings/Gatherings

Well at least the people i know don't really gather with other people to play. They usually just call/text each other and invite each other to play through the game. There is this convention called Twitch Con which is exactly like comic con but for this app/website for gamers. 

(I'm just going to try and answer some of the questions on Professor Flewellings blog)

The communicative practices and enculturation are acquired by playing the game and your aspiration to be a high rank player. lol Playing video games can become very addicting and i feel like it doesn't really take long for someone to become a member of this community. 

Values and norms of playing video games.. I would say superiority or dominance over others or the satisfaction of completing a game or quest or task. 

As for literacy, I dont think there is much that needs to be acquired in order for you to be in the community. It's more like you pick up a game and play it and if you like it you continue to play, spend a lot of your time doing just that, and you start to pick up how to talk to other gamers.

The cost to take on this community... money, time, and attention. Those, if im not forgetting any others, are the biggest sacrifices or if you call them investments you put towards being in this community. You spend money on so many games, memberships, items in the game, consoles, accessories etc. So much money is spent on this you won't even realize until you add it up at the end of the year. Time, time, time. Like i said it becomes very addictive and people reach the point where they are extremely dedicated to playing that they prioritize playing before anything else. Attention, like time, people constantly think of their games about what they need/want to do, how to do things etc. 

I think this would be a good discourse community to write about. I hope it's an acceptable one too. Other than this i got nothing and will have to brain storm super hard at my meeting to figure something out. 

Okay bye bye.

Blog #9

LASTT BLOGGGG!!! I think... lol
hmmm I feel like the semester is flying by so fast but not fast enough because we're really only on our 8th week out of 16-17 weeks. Lol The feeling and excitement just died.. RIP. We're literally half way. 50%. 1/2. lol we have another 1/2 another 50%. another 8ish weeks left. danggg.

Anyways my future career. Jeez. I honestly do not know what to expect. But I'm eager to learn. I want to pursue a career in software developing. I want to design and develop new software for companies,  test and modify existing software, I want to be the annoying update you always get on your iphone (that you always ignore). LOL well at least i ignore it.

What will I have to do in order to adapt to this career... SELF CONTROL.

A whole lot of brain power, an enormous amount of patience, meticulous attention to detail, and communication/planning skills. In order for me to work efficiently and not have to take my work home, I'd have to actually know what I'm doing AKA background knowledge AKA in the process of getting a degree in computer science. Like some jobs you learn how to do your job within the first weeks of getting hired. This job you have to already know your $h!t. Some of my friends that have graduated with degrees in computer science are struggling to find jobs because employers actually test you on whether or not you can program. I was like WAHHH. But it's understandable, you're going to get paid 40-50 dollars an hour.. You better know how to program and do the tasks your employer is hiring you to do.

Hmm i say patience and paying close attention to detail because if i have to write thousands and thousands of lines code, an extra space somewhere or a capitalized letter or a random character in my code could be the reason why my entire program doesn't work. And the first thing I would think is not that i mistyped somewhere but my logic is wrong.


Lastly (not really lastly but lastly on my list) communication and planning skills. There is going to be a lot of team work involved in this job. We are going to have to plan efficiently in order to have a well developed program and be able to meet deadlines. Talking to one another about what works and what doesn't work, helping each other solve problems, communicating altogether keeps everybody on the same page moving forward as a collective.

As for my identity kit... being professional is key. I can't talk to my coworkers or my boss like how i would talk to my friends. I want to show them that I am respectable, dependable, hard working and most importantly competent in programming. For me, first impressions are SOO important. If I dont enunciate and slur my words or if i casually talk to my boss I feel like i'm disrespecting their position of authority. If that makes sense... Though it would be cool to BE COOL with my boss there will always be that fine line between employee and employer that i don't want to cross. Unless im being promoted then wassuhhhhhhh C:

Blog 8: Work is work is work

WHY HELLOO DURRR c:
This semester is flying by so fast... It's greatttt! I hope you all are doing okay or great in terms of homework, midterms, grades in general.
Hmmmm. Work, specifically service jobs. Are they mindless jobs.. Do people that work service jobs lack the necessary education to be knowledgable workers??

OF COURSE NOT. Well at least in my opinion.. if that matters. I feel like regardless of what type of job it is you're going to learn something, you're going to use what you've learned and apply it to other jobs outside of your job, nothing is mindless and everything you do requires you to think.
To me the people that are degrading service jobs are people that have degrees or have jobs that are significantly higher paying. Wage plays a big role in judgement.

Let's take being a waiter or waitress for example. You have to learn how to take orders, speak to customers, give excellent customer service,  critically think when solving problems i.e. when a customer is unhappy or when you run out of something. There is a lot more to serving people than repetitive actions.

If you told a software engineer to be a waiter for a day that person would have to listen, learn, and observe. It won't come to them naturally because it isn't a mindless job. Just like any other job you have to learn and adapt. It may not be knowledge that you gain from going to college but never the less it's knowledge.

Education is acquiring skills, values, reasoning, judgement and the list goes on. Waiters and waitresses or anyone working any service job learns these things. They learn it in relation to their field of work. The things they learn and find useful may not be useful to someone that's working as an architect or a pharmacy technician but it's again still KNOWLEDGE.

I don't know if anything I said made sense. To be honest when I read my writing, in any scenario, I feel like it sounds good, like there are minor tweaks but it's overall OK... but then i get feedback and it's like damn I suck. LOL It's okay one day I'll learn to love writing. Hopefully.. or not.

These blogs doeee... I kind of like them. But i feel like I've taken advantage of the fact that I can freely speak in my own voice and disregard grammer, spelling, details, and basically literacy that I've taken this form of writing into my Op-ed and Memoir and probably my ethnography.  Which is tragically ripping me apart. oops.

Lol i say i feel a lot. haha Just waiting for someone to comment on my blog saying NO ONE CARES ABOUT HOW YOU FEEL hahahah. okay imma go now.

Blog 7: I'm Fake AF

This is me at work everyday. My identity kit at work is soooo fake it exceeds the maximum capacity. Before i get started I wanted to remind you guys when Gee said that an identity kit is "a costume and instructions on how to act, talk, and often write, so as to take on a particular role... "(7). This my friend is making the word FAKE sound educational and professional. Just kidding, its not necessarily fake because if you were to act like your TRUE self in front of your boss, colleagues, etc. who knows how long you'd be working there or how big your network is. Identity kits are ESSENTIAL and i just so happen to tell myself that I'm being fake because I'm not acting like my true self.
So lemme tell you at work, you won't even tell its me aside from my physical appearance...  I work at the Superior Court where you have to dress strictly business casual, talk professionally and all that business stuff. I talk proper, dress proper, and type in court code. My coworkers perceive me as an introvert basically. Because I'm so scared that if i talk a lot I'll say something wrong or bad, so I keep to myself and just get my work done. At first it was really hard taking everything seriously all the time but I've adapted to the environment and my coworkers enough to sort of feel comfortable, but sometimes my normal self slips out. When that happens I freak out and just walk back to my cubicle lol. Most of the time my coworkers ask me about school and what i do on the weekend.. and i start complaining about how tired i am and how i just stay home on the weekends... and then i stop and chang the subject because im complaining and i dont want them to see me as a complainer. (lol @ me complaining about these blogs.. ) so yeah im a studious, quite student that never goes out and i think they probably think i have barley any friends but its okay its part of my identity kit right?.

For the look that goes along with my identity kit is no makeup and mix matching HAHAHAH. Seriously I work 7:30am every morning, i DO NOT care about how i look at work. Also i only have so many business casual clothing that i honestly just throw on whatever and go. I mean all the ladies at my work come in with heels and stuff looking all business-y for like 10 minutes  and then they change out of their heels and into sneakers for the rest of the day. lol imagine like 20 women walking around wearing business skirts and a blazer or a nice blouse with sneakers. Thats like the go to look at my job. lol so we all blend in when it comes to dress code.

I don't mind my identity kit at work, i mean its work and the identity kit i put forth is manageable . Even though i feel fake and i cant talk to anyone there regularly, it's work.
If you want da monies you gotta do what you gotta do.

Blog 6: C0llEgE $tUdENt LyFeee

Bruhh I'm so glad to write this blog tonight. I just finished my reflection and GOSHH DARNNN that was a long hard battle. I started it yesterday because I was studying nonstop for my discrete math test and yeah but its okay cause i got a B on the exam so we good :). It took me two whole days to finish that thing. I literally wrote a sentence or two every 20-30 minutes because I kept getting side tracked by everything. Okay im lying... lol i was looking for distractions to get me out of writing the paper. Yeah thats how it is everytime i write a long paper. I also didn't know if it had to be double spaced because it didnt say on the prompt so i just cranked out 3 pages of single lined greatness. No im playing, im pretty sure that was the worst paper I have ever written but it's okay, not really but im trying to convince myself it is okay. K i just found out MLA was double spaced... so mad. i wrote 3 single spaced pages. jeeeeezzz imma just submit it anyways because gosh darnnn. In my defense this is my first english class since freshman year. SUPERRRR EXTRAAAA

So i started cooking and prepping for my week of healthy eating and i have to say im excited. I know how to cook but i rarely cook because when you a college student YOU AINT GOTT TIMEEEEE. But tonight i think was probably the best chicken breast i've made so far. I made brown butter chicken breast with thyme, sage and shallots. HMMMMM it was so good when i tasted it so im bout to eat goooood this week. The reason why im so excited because this semester i havent had time to eat breakfast lunch and dinner. This is because i work 7:30am till class and then i have a small lunch after my classes then im studying and doing homework until like 12am and then the next day comes and it happens all over again for 5 days. So yeah i havent been eating very well. So hopefully this week is successful.


Adapting to the college life.. WAS THE WORSE. I came into college thinking GPA didnt matter, and i was SOOO WRONG. I went to mesa college my last semester of senior year so i picked up super bad habits. Like skipping class.. not studying.. not taking it serious. So coming into SDSU wasnt so hot. It also didn't help that all of my friends didn't go to college so I chose friends over school my first semester as a freshman. They would hit me up to hang out, eat, and go out at night so my mind was in a completely different place. Though i barley passed all my classes it was full of regret.  I had a lot of freedom regarding my parents because i basically did what they wanted my older sister to do and that was (typical asian parents) honors, A's, blah blah and also because i am the first in my family to go to college so they know im serious about school but i took that for granted. I reconsidered and reevaluated my life coming second semester of freshman year. I met a lot of people that actually went to state, which helped me stay focused in school but even then i failed a class.... Which caused me to find balance between school work and having a social life. In the end i found my balance, maybe its because i ended up in a relationship and i couldnt go out as much as i did but it was for the better. My grades started going up but not as much as i wanted it too. Come to find out it was my majorrr. Biochemistry is just not my thing. I chose this major because i thought i wanted to become a pharmacist but i really didnt. I did it because my parents wanted me to and it sucks that i figured this out coming into my third year but better now than later. SO Chemistry --> Biochemistry --> Computer Science... i think i've figured it out. Im enjoying my classes, actually paying attention, going to every class. Its a satisfying feeling to know that im interested in what im learning. All in this roller coaster i've dropped my procrastination habit, being responsible and EATING HEALTHY (hopefully). Life is honestly great right now.


Side note i need to make new friends. LOL all my friends are greek affiliated asians and im honestly tired of hearing and talking about all of that stuff. Everyone is in everyones business and this and that and you get what i mean. Thats why this semester i openly talk to random people in my class to find new friends. not trying to replace my old ones but expand my network sort of speak. So if you

LOL. Okay well im end it here because i basically told my college life story and im sorry for whoever reads this :) I also did not care for capitalizing and grammer errors because that reflection MESSED ME UP. im tellin you there are a lot of errors in that  paper. Thats why im planning to do blog 7 for some extra points because im going to need it hahaha. okay goodnight!