Joseph Natividad

It’s About Time I Get Back Home

I love college life, but I miss the place I really call home. It’s just over a day and a half left before I’m back in the Bay Area and I’m eager for a short change of scenery.

I just came back from my Econ1 lecture this morning and was a little frustrated with myself. I’m starting to get annoyed with all the graphs I’ve been drawing into my notebook and shifting them left/right or up/down. I guess what’s really bugging me is the score I got on my last midterm. I’m simply not used to taking a test and getting below the class average. I looked at myself in the mirror while I was brushing my teeth and a dejected look was still present on my face.

What did I do wrong? The Indifference curves were sloping in the wrong direction? Did I make a stupid miscalculation because I got confused with the difference of reading subsidies instead of taxes on the supply and demand curve?

Ahh noooo!!!!

I know I’ll go back to enjoying my Econ lecture by the time school resumes next Monday so there’s no need to worry about my sanity.

I’ll be home by tomorrow night until Sunday afternoon. I’ll probably try out some practice Calc. exams during the long car ride there and back to keep my mind fresh when the midterm pops up next Wednesday night. I’ve got one more class today to get over with and it’s not one I particularly enjoy: CAT1B. It’s basically my college’s writing requirement in which we discuss or argue about the relations between Culture, Art and Technology. But most of the time it’s a bunch of fluff. The occasional student comes up with a really convincing argument while others state their opinions in broken sentences in which the majority of their reasonings containing the words “like…like…like_____…like.”

I’m in need of a break.

Tags: bay-area, CAT, Economics, sixth-college, ucsd

The Kooks Are Coming to UCSD!

FM949’s Holiday Hootenanny is taking place at the RIMAC Arena on campus on December 15, featuring Queens of the Stone Age, Louis XIV, Mute Math, Rogue Wave and…The Kooks.

It’s not everyday that this four piece band hailing from Brighton, England set foot on my college campus. The day after, they’ll be playing a gig at Alice in Wonderland in downtown SF. I’ll be making my way back home around that time too for the start of my winter break.

I got my tickets this morning before heading to my Music&Film discussion (which was canceled without my knowledge). With a student discount, the tickets were $34 each. Without it, they would’ve cost $37. I was a bit unsure whether they were going to be sold out or not so I didn’t take any chances by heading straight for the Price Center Box Office when it opened at 10AM this morning.

There still might be some available within the next couple days if you’re lucky but I’d get them ASAP if you’re really interested.

Tags: box-office, fm949, holiday-hootenanny, louis-xiv, mute-math, price-center, queen-of-the-stone-age, rimac, rogue-wave, the-kooks, tickets, ucsd

Warriors Win; I’m Happy Again

Finally.

The school week is over and my basketball team has finally broken into the win column. Woohoo!

Ever since the three day holiday, my workload has gone bonkers. I’ve been feeling a bit stressed but I’m glad the storm has finally calmed down for the time being. Some big-time projects and essays are looming right after Thanksgiving break so I’ll have to manage my time well if I plan on getting things done on time and feeling more relaxed the night before they’re due. (Maybe then, I’ll have time to sit down and blog more often)

I really want to come home for the weekend even though my break is only four days long. Finding a ride is hard to come by. I’m hoping my roommate keeps my hope alive if he plans on driving back up on Wednesday afternoon and dropping off his girlfriend in Mountain View. Then I could probably take BART home from there. I’m crossing my fingers. It’s about time I headed back to the Bay Area. I’ve been missing it for awhile now.

Tags: BART, basketball, CAT, essays, golden-state, Mountain-View, thanksgiving, ucsd, warriors

What’s Happening to the Warriors?

My Golden State Warriors are slumping to 0-4. Is it a good thing that I?m not back at home to watch every single minute of my favorite basketball team?s play during the new 2007-2008 NBA season?

Even though I?m all the way down here in SoCal, I?m trying to keep up with whatever is happening to the Warriors. All I see is Lakers Lakers Lakers on TV and I don?t care a single bit about Kobe or whatever is happening with his trade rumors.

I subscribe to RSS feeds from the Contra Costa Times and SF Gate?s coverage on the team so that keeps me up to date with everything that?s going on in Oakland. When games are going on live and I can?t watch it anywhere, I resort to listening to the radio online at NBA.com.

I?m really hoping that things start to get better for the Warriors. I?ve been through the team?s depressing and almost unwatchable years since I began following them in the 4^th grade. What they were able to accomplish during the playoffs last season awakened the basketball fan base in the Bay Area. I don?t care if people just jumped on the ?We Believe? bandwagon. I?m a Golden State Warrior fan for life.

Tags: basketball, bay-area, contra-costa-times, golden-state, nba, oakland, sfgate, warriors

Halloween @ UCSD

WordPress wasn’t working for some reason yesterday so it took another day to get this post up. Sorry about that!

Well, my Friend Kevin and I decided to be Optimus Prime from the movie “Transformers” for Halloween. I had a horrifying midterm to get over and done with that same night, but that didn’t stop me from helping pass out some candy to trick or treaters at the Sixth College Residence Halls earlier in the day.

There was a fair amount of mini-Ninja Turtles and bumblebees that showed up at our door, all as adorable as you could imagine.

Tags: halloween, residence-halls, sixth-college, trick-or-treat, ucsd, wordpress