Joseph Natividad

Ready for the Quarter to End

I’m more than ready for a respite from studying and working here at school. This quarter has turned out to be a lot better than my first one, as I continue to survive my classes and probably won’t end up failing a single one of them. I’ve found interest in attending my writing and intermediate Spanish classes. Too bad I can’t say the same about CSE3 (Computer Science). That’s the only trace of math I’ve experienced for the past 3 months and I can surely say that I still don’t enjoy it.

These past few days, I have begun to yearn for something I’m not too sure about. I don’t want to say that I’ve become drained by my college experience. Classes are hard, but they are bearable. Work isn’t too tiring; it’s tedious at its worst. Maybe a change of scenery for just a bit will do me good. I get back home next Friday to the Bay Area. I can already smell the food on my plate that doesn’t present an aroma reaking of the UCSD dining halls. Seeing old friends for a week and driving a car again — coming back home brings back people I never see or things I never do here at school.

I have a feeling that next quarter is going to be even much better than this current one. My schedule will be even better because I don’t have to wake up too early for my 11AM classes. I’m looking forward to becoming more involved and meeting even more people on campus than I already have. I have a lot of ideas in my head that I don’t want to give away just yet. I just know that everything will work out in the end. In some crazy way, it will. And before I know it, summer has arrived and my first year at the university has come to a close.

Tags: bay-area, CAT, classes, dining hall, ltsp, quarter, ucsd

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

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