first assignment blog entry

My daily routine to school involves many different types of
transportations. I live in Carmel Valley, a place that is three exits away
from UCSD if you take Interstate 5. I need to drive my car to La Jolla
because it is impossible to walk from my house. It usually takes me about
15 to 20 minutes to La Jolla area depending on local traffic. I usually
park my car at the Vons plaza, which is located on Arriba Street, and then
I will take UCSD Arriba track shuttle to school. This part of my daily
route usually takes about 15 minutes to school, but sometimes it takes me
about 20-30 minutes if there is a long line at the bus stop. To avoid
waiting in long line, sometimes I have to leave early from my place so I
won't be late for class. The UCSD shuttle drops off at Mandeville
Auditorium, which is pretty much, the center of the entire campus. At this
point, I choose walking as my primary transportation to class. Walking
does not take me too long; usually I walk about 10 minutes to classes. My
total daily route takes me about 40 minutes by taking these different
transportation.

For this changing-route assignment, I decided to take a different route to
get to school. I still drove my car to Vons plaza, and parked my car
there, but my alternative route became different after I parked my car. I
decided to walk to a bus stop that is not on Arriba shuttle's route but
belongs to Nobel shuttle. It took me about 10 minutes to get to a bus stop
on Nobel Street. When I was waiting for Nobel shuttle, a #48 city shuttle
came and I decided to get on to see the difference. I thought this bus
would take longer time to get to campus than Arriba shuttle, but according
to my experience, it was actually faster; it took me about 10 minutes to
get to campus. I got off at a stop near Center Hall, and took a 10 minutes
walk to get to my class at Peterson Hall.

-Jasmine Tsai