This Never Ending Story
As a recent transfer to SDSU, I have high hopes for my time here and the path it will set me on after, but it will take time and effort. One important action I took was joining an engineering club, Aztec Racing Formula SAE . This appealed to me because it seemed like a group of friends teaming up to build a final product based on everyone's interests. This is a discourse community. While it sounds like a blast to join, committing so much time to a club can be a risk. In Ann M. Johns' article Discourse Communities and Communities of Practice: Membership, Conflict, and Diversity, she states that, "If students want to become affiliated with academic discourse communities, or even if they want to succeed in school, they make have to make considerable sacrifices." This has never been truer to me than before. I've had to constantly think about my identity as a friend(weighing my time for hangout with time for study), my identity as a "gamer", and even my id...
