About

I’m a third year and I’m currently majoring in Computer Science. Besides a freshman level writing seminar, this is the only writing course I’ve taken. As I said in class, I don’t leave the engineering center very often. To be honest in the beginning I didn’t expect much from this class other than a few core requirements satisfied. But after the first couple of days of class I’m definitely excited to see how the projects are going to go and how this blog is going to turn out. I’ve never written a blog before, I’ve never looked at blogs before, and I’m not even a big Facebook person which is what I think I can relate this to. I don’t even know if how I’m writing right now is the right way to do this! Either way I’m excited to figure it out. An interesting social issue I know about is the killing of Michael Brown on August 9th which apparently led to a couple weeks of intense civil rights protesting and riots. The boy was unarmed and reported to have raised his hands in the air before he was shot, although the chief of the St. Louis County police department stated Brown went for the officer’s gun before he was shot. I plan to continue to follow this until it’s decided whether the officer will be charged with a crime or not. My idea of network engagement would be the participation of an individual in a community that relies on the participation of many individuals. I have no idea if that’s close to the actual definition.