Vivan Waghela Week 12 - The Power of the "Gambling with my Grade" blog series

 The Power of the Gambling with my Grade blog series

Gambling addiction: Symptoms, triggers, and treatment

Source: https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/15929

    I know the Gambling with my Grade series went on for three blog posts, and I think it has ended this week (maybe it hasn't, I didn't check). Thus, I would like to complete this blog topic with a full on blog about why we are allowed to do this (and why we should get credit for it).

    As we can tell, power is has a very vague definition. According to the dictionary, "the ability to do something or act in a particular way, especially as a faculty or quality" (macOS's Dictionary App). In this definition, something is vague as well. According to the dictionary, "a thing that is unspecified or unknown" (macOS's Dictionary App). Unspecified. That's the key word. So power means we can do what we want, and in the series of Gambling with my Grade we did what we want: not write about power (and turn in a blog late). So in this context, our blog posts are 100% valid. Oh yeah, I almost forgot about language. Making a blog post requires knowledge of a language. That's where that requirement is met. 

    As you can tell by now, I shall be ending this series of using power to not write about power (not once and for all bur for this month's topic only). Even though we will probably see it next month as well, I wanted to just give a nice conclusion to this month's trending topic: Gambling with my Grade. I would like to ask you all for the end of this month: What did you think of this series of Gambling with my Grade? Did this make you actually like doing blogs?

Comments

  1. Sophie Minh Thy C NguyenMarch 8, 2022 at 11:57 AM

    Hi Vivan,
    When I first saw the topic, I knew it would give me the ability to do pretty much whatever I wanted to do with it. It did make me actually like doing blogs because it turned my writers block into a mass of ideas on what to write about. When remembering the theory I made near the beginning of the blogging quarter, I found it much easier to think of topics to write about that actually interested me. I do believe that this type of meta will stop at the end of this quarter, because the next quarter will be much different and more sentimental. Even then, I think this cohort will find a way to be creative in another way in the next quarter.

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  2. Sean WangMarch 9, 2022 at 11:09 AM

    Hi Vivan,

    I can already sense someone itching to write about "remembering" the chaotic blog posts of this quarter... I'm glad that you enjoyed the blog topics so much. Frankly, I wrote it out of sheer desperation and a thirst for gaming. However, when writing that blog, I found that with enough effort, you can write anything about anything. I really felt like a lawyer, arguing my case and presenting the evidence to fit it into a given mold. With all that being said, the creativity of this cohort has been unparalleled compared to my last cohort; I look forward to seeing the works in the next quarter!

    Sincerely,

    Sean Wang

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  3. Anwika PalleMarch 9, 2022 at 11:58 AM

    Hi Vivan,
    When I read the first "Gambling with my Grade" blog post by Sean, I felt like someone had pushed the limits of the APENG gods and that all hell would break loose. Of course, nothing really happened except for the fact that it created a chain reaction of more similar blog posts. This series must be the most powerful thing I've seen in any of our blogs due to the impact it had on many people's writing styles and ideas. I have personally never "gambled with my grade," (intentionally, of course), but it was nice to read the posts of everyone who did!

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  4. Krish ParikhMarch 9, 2022 at 2:44 PM

    HI Vivan,

    From the moment I laid sight on Sean's blog post, "Gambling with my Grade," I knew a revolution was underway. Sean's work truly pushed the bounds of how topical APEng blog posts need to be, and it offered a much needed escape from the limits of this week's quarter. After his innovative post, many pioneers followed suit including yourself, Sophie, and Yi-Kuan. To answer your question on the "Gambling with my Grade," I loved it. It made blogs this quarter much more fun and cemented this cohort as the greatest collective of APEng students ever to exist.

    Sincerely,
    Krish

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  5. Yi-Kuan CMarch 9, 2022 at 4:32 PM

    Hey Vivan,

    Thank you for making this post as it is truly, as the kids say, "spittin' facts." We as a cohort decided to push the boundaries of our power as far as we could, resulting in topics that had seemingly nothing to do with the quarterly umbrella. I think it is very fitting that in such an "anti-meta" blog post meta, in your final post you would write about not writing about power. This cohort has certainly pushed the boundaries of what is possible and I truly appreciate this post that commemorates our courage.

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  6. Faith QiaoMarch 9, 2022 at 6:33 PM

    Vivan your blogs are the definition of coping—coping with the mistakes we’ve made by validating our mistakes. But that does not mean I don’t agree. I think I’ve already repeated this enough times: the quarterly blog topics are a source of inspiration—an umbilical cord to our APENG mother. I guess, by the way our blogs have been written, we’ve severed that cord and grew into rebellious teenagers over the course of winter break. And like the rebellious teens that we are, we always find a way to get our way. And it seems that we have. As for me, the short stories I wrote were actually part of a portfolio I was constructing over winter break. I didn’t reuse them in my blog post because I was lazy—okay, actually, maybe I was. However, there was always a part of me that desperately craved an opportunity to share my work and get feedback.

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  7. Sierra DellenbaughMarch 9, 2022 at 8:23 PM

    Hey Vivan, I really like how you decided to argue why everyone's insane blogs are valid using your own outside research; I think Ms. Benedetti would be proud. This topic has definitely been a difficult one, and the fact that we all still managed to write something meaningful is power in itself. You also made a very good point about language; we know how to speak English and write fairly well, so that should definitely count for something. Thanks for sharing!

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  8. RaymondMarch 9, 2022 at 8:39 PM

    Hi Vivan,
    I think that your writing style is really unique to you, especially in this blogging group, and that is a power in itself. You use a lot of parentheses and a very casual conversational tone that really invites commentary. The different challenges that this blogging group has presented to our APENG teacher have been very interesting to watch, and I doubt that this will fade away in the new blogging quarter. Thank you for all of your interesting thoughts this quarter!
    Sincerely,
    Raymond Yu

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  9. DeetaMarch 11, 2022 at 4:32 PM

    Hey Vivan!
    I have been reading all of our group's blogs and catching up and I have been super delighted by the series. I'm super sad that I missed out on it but reading through all of them reminds me how open ended this class is. It also shows how there is power in not sticking to the status quo, so in a way all the blogs not about power are still indirectly about power. Thank you for all your really interesting and out of the box posts this quarter and I can't wait to keep reading your writing:)

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