Joseph Natividad

A lot has happened since last time

It’s been quite a while…

Ruminating/pondering/thinking/reflecting, taking a break, maybe being a bit lazy and all that.

I’ve had it with Calculus. I couldn’t take it anymore. I didn’t want to make my college experience a living hell for the sake of a major requirement for Economics. So I scrapped that plan and went in a totally different direction with my life. I switched over to something a bit more familiar and interesting to me. Something that dealt with languages, writing and increasing my awareness of foreign events. It was something that brought me back to my roots: journalism.

As the Winter quarter began this past January, I submitted my change of major form to the UCSD registrar to declare my official switch from Economics to International Studies - Linguistics. Instead of Calculus or Economics, I am now enrolled in an intermediate Spanish literature course. It still a challenging task, no doubt. But I feel better when I wake up in the morning and not have to think about numbers or formulas and failing the next midterm on my calendar. Siento bien conmigo mismo. (I feel good about myself.)

There will be a few changes to the focus of my blog. I may still report about economic developments in the news that I find important or interesting but won’t put an emphasis on it as I have in the past. I am, after all, a college student. I’m out and about with whatever’s going on around the San Diego/La Jolla area. I believe that there are a lot of crazy events going on at UCSD that not a lot of people know about so I want to spread the word. I’ve attended film screenings that haven’t gotten large turnouts as I thought there would have been because I have come to the conclusion that no one really knows about them. Last but not least — as I get deeper into my new major’s requirements and begin to flirt with the possibility of studying abroad in a few years — you’ll also be hearing quite a bit about that.

So please stay tuned and keep in touch by leaving comments if you wish!

Tags: international studies, ltsp, major, spanish, ucsd