Joseph Natividad

Bomb Threat was a False Alarm

I was in the middle of doing my Calculus homework when I heard NBC News mention something about “a bomb“? and “UCSD” within seconds apart of each other. I got up from my desk and went to take a look for myself. Supposedly, a package of some kind was found on one of the floors at the Medical School located across from my dorm. Everyone inside that building had to be evacuated immediately for the bomb squad to do their job. I, however, wasn’t affected by this at all even though the Medical School is located just across the street. There was police tape in the parking lot and one of my clueless friends thought at first glance that someone had been shot on campus.

No one was panicking outside my residence hall despite all this. I even ended up getting dragged into tossing a frisbee for almost half an hour with another friend who lived upstairs from me. Here at UCSD, we’ve been conditioned to brave through numerous forest fires that a bomb threat is just another day at school.? (I’m kidding.)

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