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A Reflection on the Student Condition I think to myself at least once a month what it would have been like to go through college and actually take classes for the content. Being a pre-med student, I have valued the grade more often than the message. It's probably a common symptom of the system since we have to keep our GPA at perfection throughout our college career to impress the medical schools. My writing minor was supposed to be my step out of the light, it was supposed to be the classes I took for me rather than for those medical schools. The assortment of classes I took through the minor were supposed to be not for the grade. That's what I told myself. But with every class, I always have that anxiety at the back of my mind. Even though these classes give a freedom that I don't find in any other classes, there are limitations. I used to hate writing for classes. I went to a math and science academy where every History and English class was filled with analytical,

Final Assignment: Video Game Categorization Course: Video Games as a Medium Professor: Guna Yerrabolu This course is made for students who enjoy playing video games. It revolves around playing video games and then analyzing the experience, so it could still be suitable for students who don't really play video games. A lot of the questions I got revolved around the requirement for 10-15 games. As I presented in the Research Tips and Tricks, this assignment is still feasible if someone does research. The categories don't have to be broad. So if they research gameplay clips or other people's reviews, the assignment can still be completed since the categories that the student generates are of their own choosing. Information Throughout this course, we have observed how medium can shape the message that a video game is portraying. We spent a majority of the class looking at specific video games and analyzing different components that made or broke them. In this proce

The future of four technological inventions: Trains (Travel) The next step for this would be rather than transporting a set number of people in groups over and over again, you would have a system where each person could travel at their own time through a constantly running system. This takes away the requirements of operators and conductors, takes away the requirements of schedules and relying on the compliance of everyone to run the system. Something like a single person, tube transport that just whisks the individual from one station and deposits them at the target station would function better. However, this would have to have a way to do this without taking up physical space. There is a lot of long distance travel, so having people travel that far would require multiple tube systems. People would have to live in a place that houses all their needs in a closer system, making this more practical. Augmented Reality This is the next step for cell phones. It would take the concept

Writing on organizing games into categories for a class that worked with analyzing different parts of one game throughout the course. Discuss the main topics touched throughout the course. Provide an example diagram, but say that you can categorize by any aspect of the games (i.e art, gameplay, genre, story arc, etc.). Overwatch -Set Characters (SC) Call of Duty MW2 -Customizable Characters (CC) Planetside 2 -Class Based Characters, CC Realm of the Mad God -CBC, CC Binding of Isaac -CC PUBG -CC Shadow of Mordor - Terraria Crypt of the Necrodancer League of Legends

"It treats the work of art simply as a starting-point for a new creation" This holds the key to understanding Wilde's piece. Criticism, as a form of art, uses its subject as a platform to build from. Wilde seems to be inverting Platonic ideology and applying it to art. With Plato, life is an imperfect representation of a perfect idea. The issue that Wilde had with painting, however, is that it tries to resemble life too much. He believes that art should come from the individual, growing from their beliefs and thoughts. Criticism is how someone experiences the art, expressing themselves in the form of criticism. I agree that if criticism comes from the same internal motivation that drives more traditional forms of art, then it can be considered so. However, this depends on intention. True criticism could be art, but modern criticism is not. Most of what we see nowadays is crafted to draw attention. It isn't a form of self expression but rather a form of income and

Excerpt from “The Critic as Artist: With Some Remarks About the Importance of Discussing Everything”       - Oscar Wilde ERNEST. Yes; I see now what you mean. But, surely, the higher you place the creative artist, the lower must the critic rank. GILBERT. Why so? ERNEST. Because the best that he can give us will be but an echo of rich music, a dim shadow of clear-outlined form. It may, indeed, be that life is chaos, as you tell me that it is; that its martyrdoms are mean and its heroisms ignoble; and that it is the function of Literature to create, from the rough material of actual existence, a new world that will be more marvellous, more enduring, and more 17 true than the world that common eyes look upon, and through which common natures seek to realise their perfection. But surely, if this new world has been made by the spirit and touch of a great artist, it will be a thing so complete and perfect that there will be nothing left for the critic to do. I quite unders