Gus's Media and Society Blog

       For the media blog project 1, I am watching an award winning, HBO’s The Pitt. I watched the most recent episode at the time, Season 2 Episode 4, on Febuarary the 4th, 2026. The show releases episodes weekly, so there will be another episode released by the time I am finished with this project. The Pitt is a medical drama with emphetises on the medical. In other medical dramas, for example, Grey’s Anatomy and Scrubs, the actual practice of medicine takes a back seat to the characters' interactions, and more so serves to just give the shows a place to be set in. This is not the case with The Pitt. The medical procedures and practices take center stage and are the driving force for the drama that takes place in the show. The main motivating force for the characters is their reactions to the medical situations that are being thrust upon them. The structure of each season is that each episode takes place over an hour of a singular full shift at a Pittsburgh hospita...

Hello, my name is Gus. I am currently going to LBCC to get my general associate's degree. I initially moved to Oregon to attend SOU down in Ashland, but not having a complete idea of what kind of education I wanted to pursue put school on the back burner for me. Even now, I'm not sure what I want to study, but that is one of the strengths of community college. I am trying out multiple types of classes to find an area of study that draws me in, one of those classes being the reason for the creation of this blog, Media and Society. By the time it comes to transferring to a university at the end of this school year, I hope to have found a career path. I work full time in addition to attending college with full time credits as well, so time balancing has become something I have been forced to learn. In many ways, it has forced me to grow a lot in a relatively short amount of time. I work at Costco as an optician, something that I would not have thought of as a career path until I g...