First Week Back to CSUN
Hello. Welcome to the first week of the 2009-2010 year of CSUN, but that passed already. Haha. I’m just saying that because I’m going to give you a recap of how my first week went. I can’t believe it’s already my fourth year.
“Vent At The Tent” is a booth where students can go to complain about how the recent budget cuts are affecting them. It could be from trying to add any classes, but you can’t because the professors don’t provide the permission numbers anymore. The department does instead. It could also be the tuition increase by roughly 30%. It was about $1,867 just last semester, and it is now $2,393. I am sure there are much more to this, but it just shows how much California and the California State Universities are under budget right now, and the state of the economy right now isn’t really helping anyone, even professors and everyone who works at the university. They are forced to take at least nine furlough days where they can’t work or teach and can’t contact students in any form.
Clubs and Organizations Day took place on Wednesday and Thursday. I went to check it out because I was pretty bored, and I had an idea of showing off the first week of CSUN in my blog. Not kidding. Pretty sad, huh? Haha.
So, I went closer to take a better look on some clubs. Most of them are fraternities and soroities, so I didn’t really bother with many of them. I wasn’t really interested in many of the clubs anyway since I don’t think I will be dedicating my time to them. I am in an organization called University Ambassadors, though, so at least I am in something?
LA Arboretum, Part 5
Here is the final update of the LA Arboretum entries. If you have been keeping track, like Nikki has, then I would like to thank you for checking out these updates. These entries definitely showed how much I really like flowers and nature altogether. Once again, I would like to thank Nikki for the free admission, even though the admission isn’t costly to begin with. It’s still nice to have it anyway.
Nikki got really tired at this one point, so we sat down on a bench underneath a shade. I realized that such way is a nice way to see how beautiful trees are by the way their branches look and just the formation of it overall.
LA Arboretum, Part 4
Last night I said I will post two entries of the LA Arboretum updates, and that will be all. I changed my mind today since I don’t feel like doing both at the same time. The good news is that I don’t have work tomorrow, so I am able to post it at an earlier time. I am planning to the public library tomorrow to check some books since I actually got some book recommedations, and I can’t wait to check them out. I think I will also renew my library card status since I lost mine many years ago, and I never got a new one due to a number of reasons: I don’t go to the library a lot anyways, and my name is so common that I have to find “ways” to make the card who I am. Anyway, I will talk more about the library and books later. I still have to update about LA Arboretum.
Ah, yes. Nikki and I saw a peacock family with their babies walking around, and it was so adorable. They were just walking around in the shade. I kept moving closer and closer to them because I really wanted good photos of them.
Peacock mommy and daddy. Did you know that the peacock dads are the ones that look prettier due to the fact they have more color on them? I find that part very interesting, but what’s more interesting is the way I think about them. It shows that my culture i.e. where I come from tells me different meanings of what defines pretty, or even beautiful. Ah well. That was just a random thought.