Birthday

 Today's my birthday!!!!!!

So it's my birthday today and I turned 21. It feels a bit weird that I had to turn 21, a bit of a contrived milestone in the life of a United states citizen to be more free and to be able to drink legally now. I spent my birthday focusing a bit on writing an essay for a class, as well as doing a midterm for one of my math classes. 

After I was done with that, with it being on a Tuesday,  in the evening I went on a zoom meeting with the writers group that I am apart of, once I joined, my mothers name was mother of birthday kid, so they remembered/knew it was my birthday. In the first couple of minutes before they started they wished me a happy birthday and we introduced ourselves again because we had a new person and that has been the norm for a while, we introduce ourselves and say what we like to read and or write. In the month of October the writers group was being lead and focused on how to create characters, so we talked about that for the rest of the time. 

After writers group, since it was my birthday I wanted to play the among us game with my family, so we got onto a zoom meeting at like 8pm EST or around there and 7 CST for my cousins and aunt who played. We played a little bit and they gave me happy birthday wishes. Throughout the day I got a couple of texts from my grandparents that both attended the zoom meeting and didn't. 

covid, class and college

I think that covid hasn't really been equal in the opportunity for learning during this mess. I think that it has mainly hurt those that are from a lower class family. I also think that the rural folks are a bit harmed too because of possible access to liable and stable internet. I think that it also hurts those who can't access the help they need as well as they could have without this stuff. There's a possibility that there's also not having the help at home that some need, with parents working and cant help with an issue and to make sure they're doing the work and looking after themselves without the ability of a babysitter.

I am not sure mostly because I don't think I know what the hardship clause would entail, if it was like if the student wasn't able to perform to standard due to accessibility, then yes I think that there should be a clause stating that in this time where we have to do online stuff and those who aren't technologically adept enough at the moment shouldn't be punished because they don't know what to do about something. 

My experience with online learning has been mostly positive, I have been doing decently well in making sure I remember which class i need to hop into the zoom meeting. I'm not sure enough to make a decision about the job market after this.

Among Us

 So there's a game that has recently gotten big even though it was released around 2 years ago. I had asked some of my family on Friday if they wanted to play it, and we got a lobby and played few games. We got on a zoom meeting so we can talk just not through the game chat. Before we actually started we tried to discuss which platform (zoom or discord) was the best option to talk through when we had the ability. 

The game mechanics are fairly simple, the gameplay is about you're on this ship that needs a bit of fixing but there are anywhere between one and three imposters whose goal is to either kill everyone, vote out people or sabotage the O2 or reactor. When a crewmate finds a body they hit a report body button that calls everyone to a meeting to discuss the body and to try to figure out who the imposters are. It was a good time to play a couple of games with my cousins, grandmother, and parents.