Adrian Interview #2

Episode 7 of the Comm Central Podcast podcast, hosted by SJSU Communication Studies Department, titled "Adrian Interview #2" was published on February 24, 2021 and runs 5 minutes.

February 24, 2021 ·5m · Comm Central Podcast

Summary

Unknown Speaker  0:00   How's everyone doing today? Unknown Speaker  0:02   Good doing great. Unknown Speaker  0:04   Yeah. Unknown Speaker  0:05   So, Adrian, how are you doing? Unknown Speaker  0:10   I'm doing good. Unknown Speaker  0:11   All right. So us as hosts, we'll go ahead and say our names. My name is Gabby. I am a comm major at San Jose State. My name is mellie. I am also a call major. I'm in my fourth year. Unknown Speaker  0:25   And my name is Bruno. I am also a comm major at San Jose State. This will be my fourth year as well. Unknown Speaker  0:30   Okay. And I major in I graduated in May 2020. So last year, and I majored in mechanical engineering gratulations on that. Unknown Speaker  0:41   Congrats on my graduation there. Unknown Speaker  0:44   Thank you. It sucks but at least I graduated, right? Unknown Speaker  0:47   Yeah, totally. Unknown Speaker  0:50   To start it off, Adrian, since you were still a student during the pandemic, how was it shifting from going to school and having to go completely online? How did that affect you? Unknown Speaker  1:05   It was definitely a big change, because it started out as spring break. And when we first heard about COVID, we're just going to be about a week or so.So we didn't really think much about it. And as like the first week came by and were like, Oh, just another vacation. But as the week's progressed, and we just didn't show up to school for the rest of the semester, and then continue the next semester, like completely online. It was just really hard like mentally like trying to pay attention. Especially because like online classes, especially speaking for like engineers, it's really hands on. And to follow along like the screen instead of in person, it was really hard. So just kind of harder to study and focus in class. And then just to study out of class, because you are always home and just being in the same like environment every day kind of just, I don't know, it kind of puts a toll on you mentally here. I mean, Unknown Speaker  1:54   definitely. So I hear you play games, or would you say that you're a gamer that plays a lot? And if so, did you play during the pandemic? Did that did that help at all? Unknown Speaker  2:07   So yeah, I definitely play video games like to de stress when I wasn't doing anything, or I was done with all my schoolwork. And yeah, it definitely helped me to de stress and just not think about school for like a couple hours. On one game. I was relaxed Sam, remember was playing Minecraft. And just building things like, this is like Legos for adults pretty much but just building things, especially for me as an engineer, I really enjoy building things. So just doing that in a video game for a couple hours just kind of like my de stressor after every day. Just going through a lot of work. Unknown Speaker  2:39   Says playing video games still help with stress? Unknown Speaker  2:44   Yeah, definitely. Like if I'm ever really feeling really stressed or feeling like my work was too heavy. I'll just take like an hour or two hours off I'll play a game that I'm I'm really used to playing or I'll try play a new game just to just for something new, you know, just something else to distract me from whatever's going on. Unknown Speaker  3:03   Was this a tactic for you in the past? Or did you start playing games more frequently during the pandemic, when we were all trapped inside? Unknown Speaker  3:12   I used to play a lot also before the pandemic, but then during the pandemic, because like everyone was at home like 24 seven played more...

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