Rumbling Air Conditioner

So as of late a famous Youtuber, Shane Dawson has gained notoriety because of the docuseries he has been producing on his channel. These docuseries all involve interviewing and delving deeper into the lives of often controversial Youtubers and just exposing more of their lifestyle and their background. The first series of this nature was done on the infamous Jeffree Star, who is a beauty guru who owns a multi-million dollar makeup company, but has a past riddled with controversy which include saying racist slurs.Over the course of the 5 part series, Shane gets Jeffree to open up about his life, both before his current fame but also to talk more about his company and show some things that his viewers had never known before like the gargantuan warehouse they operate out of. This is where the uncertainty reduction theory plays a role. Before the series many people who weren't already dedicated fans to Jeffree Star had a preconceived notion about him, which was further reinforced...

This week we were tasked to take a closer look at interpersonal relationships, and while it's not the traditional dyad, I figured why not take a look at some recent events on campus. Last Thursday there was a protest on campus over the musings that were made on a Brooklyn College Professor´s blog. The quote, in particular, that has been cherry-picked (sorry my bias is showing) was this one, which also happens to be the first sentence, “If someone did not commit sexual assault in high school, then he is not a member of the male sex ”. Here is a sign I saw in Ingersoll featuring it plus a photo of Langbert, photoshopped with a pig nose While the protestors claim that Langbert is a proponent of sexual assault, Langbert argues that his blog post was written as a satirical reflection on the Kavanaugh hearings. Personally, I agree with Langbert I think that the line about sexual assault being a prerequisite for political office gives away that it is satire. That being said ...

So in class this week we learned about communication theories and research and then were tasked with carrying out research in our groups on different sound levels on and around campus. so let's talk about how it went! My group chose to stick together and have everyone go to all of our testing sites. While this seemed like a good idea because everyone could contribute to our observations, it also added an extra variable to the sites we tested since we are not the quietest bunch. I was in charge of the recordings (mainly because most people in the group hadn't bothered to download any of the apps) and I did have a hard time navigating the NIOSH app and understanding what all the results meant. Other people in my group were able to so we worked together to record all the info we needed. One thing that I found really interesting about all the places that we visited was that there wasn't really much of a difference in the average decibels, they were all in the 60-70 rang...