Assignment 10: Listening Posts

My listening post would be the lobby of Greene Hall. Greene's lobby is available 24/7, and would have to be the melting pot of the entire building. Since Greene is known as "the art dorm" because a majority of the residents are fine arts majors, many student come just to play the provided video games or to indulge in the creative, family-time vibe. And of course we are all young adults with constant contact to social media, news stories, and each other, so conversations range from gossip to intellectual debate to anime.

My mother's listening post would be both her police scanner and her co-workers. Whenever I am home, I am ultimately disturbed by the continuous static from the police scanner that never seems to exceed 20 feet of my mom. She takes it to work, rides in the car with it, or just chills with it around the house. She uses the scanner as a way to keep herself up-to-date with El Dorado's scandals or to be nosy in laymen's terms. At my mother's job, the best way to pass time is to joke around and gossip. Most of the information she would receive would be personal he-say, she-say, but all-in-all it is informational towards things like violence, robbery, politics, and history.