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From: ccmccorm@ucsd.edu
Date: Mon, April 14, 2008 11:44 am
To: mobcom@blogger.com
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For this assignment, I chose to carpool with a friend to school. I live
in Clairemont and normally I drive my own car taking the I-5 North, then I
exit Nobel. When I drove to school with my roommate last Friday we took a
different route to UCSD. We left Clairemont Mesa and we actually did not
even get on the freeway. We took the back way from Clairemont Mesa to
Genessee, and then took a left on Nobel towards UCSD.
There are a few significant differences I noticed from this change in
mobility. The first was that I was a little late to school. The girl I
carpooled with is not a student at UCSD, but she works in La Jolla. I
had class at 11am and she did not actually have to be at work until
11:30. I usually leave around 10:15 because I park in the Regents
parking lot and then I take the shuttle up to school. I leave for school
early since the shuttle line can sometimes be very long, which in turn
can make me late to class. The one advantage I had from carpooling with
a friend was that I would not have to find parking or wait in a shuttle
line. But since we left a little later that day (10:40am), I got to
school just a little bit later than I would have liked.
Another difference I noticed was the fact that that although I left later
to school with my friend, I would not have to find parking or wait for the
shuttle to take me up to Geisel. So traveling with her saved me the extra
time I usually leave for myself to get to class on time. And, normally I
take the freeway to school so when I carpooled with a friend a learned a
new route to take. Carpooling, of course, was also more environmentally
friendly. By changing the way in which I traveled to school, I found a
new route to take to UCSD and saved some time I usually have to give
myself to get to class on time.
Caroline McCormack
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