I am Psga - Michael piazza

I'm Michael Piazza, I'm twenty, I am a junior, and I'm a journalism major. I play a lotta, lotta, lotta video games. I'm actually the President of the Gamer's Club on-campus, you know. I don't advertise it as much as I do now I used to really, you know, yell at people in passing and just say like "Hey! You guys like Super Smash Brothers?!" and then I'd just kind of give them a flyer or I'd write my name down, email anything just to get people to come in. When I'm not working, when I'm not hanging out with my friends, I have, you know, my hands glued to a controller of sorts. I like long boarding, I like exercise, I like being fit, all that. I could go down a list of, you know: martial arts, fencing, swimming, cooking, all this what not. A lotta, lotta hobbies. I chose Purchase because um... a friend of mine had taken me to Culture Shock when I was a senior and I saw that, you know, the campus looked very depressing and it looked so, you know, sad with all of the construction around, but I had such a good time that I just figured it's cheap, it's affordable, it's something that I'd want to be, someplace I'd want to be, really. I liked the atmosphere that people were kind of odd looking at first, but I got used to it. It was very, very homey to me. Honestly when I was a freshman I didn't know anything. I didn't even know there was. I probably knew at heart there was a PSGA, but it wasn't, you know, anything special. Once I was a sophomore, I started reporting on them for the Brick, I went to the weekly meetings, and I got to see just how, uh... involved most students were with this. I didn't know much about the PSGA until I saw John Fallot just kind of ranting about it during the Senate meetings so I think it definitely keeps you more aware of what they do if you talk to him specifically. Just stop by the office, walk right in, and see what they're up to: go to senate meetings, try to get more involved just by looking at the PSGA Happenings in your emails. I am the Assistant Editor of the Brick. uh... SUNY Purchase's only online news source and pretty much what I do is I hand out articles every week, I make sure that every writer on our staff gets something to work with, I edit articles, upload them to the site, make sure it doesn't crash from time to time. Really something that we couldn't be doing without the PSGA, they really made it possible for us to just have this news organization. Anytime a student walks into their office, they will try and help in anyway they can, and I think that it's good that we have students who are so involved like that.