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I thought I lost my iPod
It was a near death experience for me (or the closest one to it). I just got back from work and emptied out my pockets. Out came my cellphone, my keys and my wallet. Where the #$%& was my iPod?!?! Panicked and sweating like crazy, I checked my pockets again and scrounged through all the clothes on my bed and the random stuff on my desk. It was nowhere to be found.
I couldn’t believe this was happening to me. I’d rather lose my cellphone than my iPod, one of my most treasured possessions. At least if i lost my cellphone, it was more likely that whoever found it would call one of my contacts and I’d get it back sooner or later. So I ran back to the dining hall where i work and searched the hamper with all the dirty aprons and towels. I looked at all the pockets of every apron I could find. I still didn’t know where it was. It was at this moment that I actually began to consider the possibility that Lynn Carey had stolen it from me.
I jogged back to my dorm (I was getting tired from all the unexpected running) and searched once again through most of the possible places it could have ended up. If it wasn’t in my jeans pockets then it couldn’t be anywhere else in my room. I took my dormmate’s bike and sped back to the dining hall. I left the bike in front of one of my friend’s apartments and jogged the rest of the way. I searched through the hamper full of aprons one more time. This time I dug deeper into the pile past the towels…and there it was — grimy but unmistakeably my iPod.
Hallelujah.
‘Party Like a Rockstar’ Tickets On Sale
Tickets for the Sixth College Semi-Formal are up for sale for the rest of the week. The actual event will take place this Saturday from 8-12 midnight at the Hard Rock Cafe in La Jolla.
If you’re interested in purchasing some for yourself, your date or any of your friends, they are available at the Sixth College hub on the second floor of Pepper Canyon Hall. Tomorrow (Wednesday) from 1-3PM, representatives will be on hand at the Sixth College Residence Hall quad area selling them there too.
The tickets cost $20 and comes with free transportation. They are also available at the door for $25 but without the complimentary ride there.
I’ll grab mine sometime tomorrow. If you’ve got nothing to do and are around the area this weekend, I suggest you get on it ASAP.
The music is provided by DJ KMa from Blackout Entertainment. Professional photography is made available by Boyd Anderson Photography.
Surviving Through Finals
Finals are over and I can finally breathe a sigh of relief. It’s been a stressful week for me — probably one of the most demanding I’ve had so far this schoolyear. I tried so hard to review and prepare myself for each exam and it worked out for me just half the time.
I breezed throught my Music&Film and CAT1B finals but I knew I definitely bombed Calculus when I couldn’t figure out four out of the eight total problems I was staring at on paper. I’ve never failed a class in my life but I think I’ve finally ended that streak. Worst case scenario: I’ll have to retake the class over again next quarter and finish off the last third of the Math10 series over the summer at Cal. That would definitely spoil my plans to apply for seasonal employment after my freshman year is completed in June.
Yesterday, my Economics final didn’t go too well either, though probably not as badly as I did with Calculus. The thought crossed my mind about whether this major isn’t a perfect fit for what I’m capable of. I have doubts and am feeling unsure about my future, but I’m deciding to go through with things for now. I’ll have to wait for my grades after Christmas and then I’ll get a clearer perspective on things. But I’m not feeling completely bothered by this situation. At this rate, I’m still on pace to graduate in four years, which doesn’t sound bad at all.
For now, however, I’m hoping for a miracle that comes in the form of a passing math grade.
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.
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.
Thursdays are a Nightmare
My schedule is pretty spread out during the week, but I just get screwed over on Thursdays: four lectures, two lasting an hour and a half each, one lasting 50 minutes and one lasting three hours from 6-9PM. That long Music and Film class to finish out my day ends too late that I end up eating alone at the cafeteria nearby, with a copy of the New York Times and USA Today keeping me company during my meal.
Out of all the long and nightmarish Thursdays I?ve had since school started, yesterday has been the worst so far.
My first midterm for Econ1 kept me busy reviewing all my notes and homework during the entire night before. It just so happens that I had to type up a two-page commentary for my college?s writing class by the following morning too. Already lacking sleep, how inconvenient was it for the school to arrange for a fire drill at 7 in the morning?
I think I did well enough on my midterm. I seem to be doing just fine in all my classes so far, including Calculus, which is a bit surprising. I did better than I expected on last week?s quiz and I am absolutely certain I aced the one I just had this afternoon.
It?s Friday and I?m glad this week is over. I don?t have any Economics homework until Tuesday but I still have a ton of reading to catch up on for my writing class.
It never stops coming does it?
I’m Back!!!
It?s been quite a while since I?ve regularly updated this thing. I apologize and want to let you know that I am determined not to alienate you or leave you reading that entry about doing my own laundry over and over again.
What have I been doing these past few weeks instead of blogging my brains out? Adjusting to college life, of course. I?ve got a bunch of midterms coming up next week so I would consider this the calm before the storm. I had a few quizzes and essays to get over with last week and I?ve been exploring campus, meeting new people and relying on cafeteria food to keep me from starving. When I?m not doing homework, you might find me out of my dorm eating a turkey burger or a BBQ chicken pizza.
College is definitely a new experience to me and I?m loving every moment of it so far. Not a day goes by when I don?t randomly meet someone new. Whenever someone asks me where I?m from, I just tell them I?m from
I?m enjoying most of the classes I?m taking this quarter, with Calculus being the only one I constantly struggle with. My Economics class is pretty straightforward so I?m not having too much trouble grasping concepts about marginal costs and benefits, the production possibility frontier, and stuff of that nature.
If I don?t keep up with the goal I set for myself to say whatever was ?on my mind?, then shame on me.
What?s on my mind right now? Catching up on lost sleep and eating a slice of that BBQ chicken pizza for lunch tomorrow.
Unsuccessful Roommate Search through Facebook
My dorm room assignments were sent to me via email this morning. In a world where you could search for almost anyone connected to a social network (or utility, as Facebook likes itself to be called), how come my two roommates happened to be virtually nonexistent aside from the information that the school had given me?
I was definitely counting on looking both of them up on Facebook too. One of them comes all the way from Maryland while the other is from a town near Sacramento called Citrus Heights. I have no clue what their interests are but I hope that we?ll all end up getting along in our triple bunk-bed arrangement. It?s going to be pretty cramped in there?I could already see it.
I was never part of the MySpace crowd or even a member of any social networking site until Facebook had taken over part of my social life this summer.
Most of my dorm mates that had a Facebook profile seem like pretty interesting people so far. No one can really tell until we interact with each other in person.
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