Adrian Panuco Interview

Bruno: All right, we're recording. How's everyone doing today? Gabby: Good, Doing great. Meli: Yeah, same here, I'm good. Gabby: Adrian, how are you doing? Adrian: I'm doing good. Gabby: All right, so to start off we'll go ahead. us as hosts, we'll go ahead and say our names. My name is Gabby. I am a comm major San Jose State. Meli: My name is Meli. I am also a comm major. I'm in my fourth year. Bruno: And my name is Bruno. I am also a comm major at San Jose State. This will be my fourth year as well. Adrian: And I majored and I graduated in May of 2020. The last year, and I majored in mechanical engineering. Bruno: Congratulations on that, congrats on my graduation there. Adrian: Thank you, it sucked, but at least I graduated, right? Bruno: Yeah, definitely Meli: totally. Gabby: So 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? Adrian: Um, 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 we're like, oh, just another vacation. But as the week's progressed, and we just didn't show up to school for us that 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're always home, and just being in the same like environment every day kind of just and I don't know kind of puts a toll on you mentally here. Y'know what I mean? Bruno: Yeah, definitely. Gabby: Definitely. So, 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? Adrian: 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. One game that was relaxing, I remember was playing Minecraft.And just building things like... It's like Legos for adults pretty much but just building things, especially for me as an engineer, I really enjoyed building things. So just doing that in a video game for a couple hours is kind of like my de-stressor after every day. Just going through a lot of work. Gabby: For sure, for sure. Meli: Does playing video games still help? Like with stress? Adrian: Yeah, definitely. Like if I'm. ever like feeling really stressed or feeling like my work load is too heavy. I'll just take like an hour or two hours off. I'll play a game that I'm really used to playing or I'll try to play a new game just to... just for something new, you know, just something else to distract me from whatever's going on. Bruno: 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? Adrian: I used to play a lot also before the pandemic, but then during the pandemic, because like everyone was at home like 24 seven. Yeah, I played more. So I just kind of got more on to it. So it's kind of just work, sleep and then playing video games. Bruno: Did you um, because definitely, within the time that we've been staying inside, it's been hard to see friends and socialize and stuff. And I've kind of utilized certain games to, you know, grab a party together and sort of play together so we can still social..