I bought these blue jeans from Bluenotes yesterday, but I’m afraid they might be too blue. How do you judge if a piece of clothing is too blue? What could you wear with a pair of too blue jeans from Bluenotes? I don’t know what to do with my too blue jeans from Bluenotes!

— My friend Angelo, in reference to a certain CakeFarts website :-)

— Carl Sagan

My little brother is in surgery right now :(

I spent the past 2.5 days agonizing over what to write, compiling draft after draft of senseless crap that continued to fail at capturing the intricacies of my background, aspirations, and reasons for choosing their program! I consumed at least 17 cookies and 9 cups of hot white angel green tea out of sheer frustration! So I figured I would share some of that crap with you :-)

Draft #3: Bryant graduated from the University of California, Irvine with a degree in Informatics. Armed with a new appreciation for the relationships people share with computers, he sought near and far for a graduate program that would support his goal of creating rewarding social experiences with video games. The MDM program proved to be the beacon of light he was hoping to find, and [inspiring close goes here].

Draft #6: Bryant’s video game diet was lacking in nutritional value; the latest WWII shooter wasn’t nurturing the soul like it should. Feeling a need for change, Bryant studied Informatics at the University of California, Irvine to better understand the chemistry of the video game device. With the fundamentals under his belt, he looked for a community — a community of new video game dietitians intent on serving the gaming public works that meet the recommended daily values of love, creativity, and human nature. Inevitably, he joined the MDM program.

Draft #7: Bryant spends his spare time shooting for new high scores in Geometry Wars, reading inspirational stories about overcoming hardships, and tending to his unfortunate ficus tree.

Draft #10: Bryant graduated from the University of California, Irvine with a degree in Informatics. Tired of answering the pervasive question, “Infor-whaa??” whenever he described his studies, he decided he needed a new degree that would be better understood by the general public. Now when Bryant describes the Master’s of Digital Media program, people simply respond, “Oh, okay,” and continue going about their day feeling no better and no worse.

Draft #11: Bryant was born in the Okanagan Valley in British Columbia, but fate took him southward to the United States where he studied Informatics at the University of California, Irvine. Anxious to return to his motherland, Bryant found a home in the MDM program — a diverse community of digital media pioneers who share the same desire for change as he does. Working alongside his new colleagues, Bryant’s goal is to design video games that everyone can play and learn from.

Draft #16: Bryant loves a rich slice of cheesecake. More than that, Bryant loves sharing a rich slice of cheesecake with his peers. In this social setting, the rich slice of cheesecake takes on a new purpose, a new meaning — something more than a guilty pleasure. It becomes a boundary object that serves as a catalyst for a rewarding social experience among cheesecake lovers and non-cheesecake lovers alike. Bryant wants his video games to be more like this rich slice of cheesecake.

Yes, it kept going downhill from there.