Recently I’ve noticed a strange rise in the number of homeless people plaguing our campus. During my first year here at UC Irvine, I never noticed anything out of the ordinary as far as the presence of the homeless is concerned. Sure, there would be the occasional weird-looking guy at the bus stop, but that is to be expected. In the past month of class, however, I’ve witnessed at least two homeless people on campus.
For the last couple of weeks, thousands of Orange County citizens have been making their way to the Irvine Civic Center to be a part of Occupy Orange County CA, a branch of the Occupy Wall Street movement that began in New York City.
The last thing I expected to do was give myself a concussion outside of class. Especially, while I was sober. If you’re wondering how this happened, join the club. I’ll rewind, like some trendy Tarantino movie that all the cool kids these days like, and tell you what happened. I’ll start from the beginning …
Some of the worst days at UCI occur when the SoCal heat wave kicks in. We students are expected to carry on through the day and pay attention in class as if 90-degree weather is normal for us. And it doesn’t help that the freshmen dorms aren’t air-conditioned. The slopes and hills of Ring Road also don't give us any advantages of avoiding sweating on our way to class.
Steve Jobs, the former co-founder and CEO of Apple Inc. and Pixar Animation Studios, is considered one of the most successful individuals of his lifetime. Born from an unwed graduate student, put up for adoption and a dropout of Reed College after just one semester, Jobs at 21 — the age he had co-founded Apple — had no idea that he would someday lead one of the most flourishing companies in the world.
I’ve always known that kids are smarter than they seem. From my experience with kids — whether it was taking care of my family members’ babies, watching friends’ siblings grow up, or tutoring children at my job — it was always easy to see that they had some hidden knowledge about the world.
