Welcome back everyone to one of my posts! I wish I was able to post more often, but as you will see in some of my next posts, that I was very busy this school year. I however would like to publish a few more times to allow for everyone who reads these posts to understand the conclusion of my first year at UC Irvine.
I will begin this post with something that I spent a considerable time with this school year and which allowed me to travel across the country for the first time. At the beginning of the year I was looking for a sport to join and as seen in some of my past posts, I landed on rowing. After many early mornings and long practices including practices which had my stay on campus for spring break, I was able to compete in local, regional and national competitions. Some of these races were held in Long Beach, San Diego, Sacramento and Oak Ridge. I enjoyed traveling and spending a lot of time with my teammates. I learned a new sport from scratch and I was able to attend my first club national championship in Oak Ridge, Tennessee in May. While the final weeks of the school year may have been off from rowing, I had thought about everything I had completed during my time with the sport a lot.
Something else that I would like to share in this post is about my work with the New University. I wrote many articles this school year about various sports which UC Irvine teams participated in. While I covered a lot of regular season games, I was able to cover the men’s water polo and women’s volleyball Big West Championship and the NCAA Regional for baseball.I enjoyed writing about each one as they were each some of the most important points of the athletic season for UC Irvine. I was also able to meet so many new people through writing in the New University. I hope that next year some of our pieces can be published in a print edition, but if that happens or not I will continue writing next year as an assistant sports editor.
One more thing to add shortly, which I will add onto a later post is an update to my undeclared journey. This spring I took courses in Anthropology, Biology, Art History, History and Earth System Science. The history course was enjoyable as it seemed like every lecture was an update to a continuing story. The Earth System Science class had a lot of interesting science about oceans which I could partially see in my everyday life as I spend a lot of time out on the water on Newport Harbor rowing. The other courses were fun as well as the Biology course had a lot of practical knowledge and I loved learning about Japan through the history of its arts in the Art History course.
That is it for this post, there will be more updates in other posts to come! Zot Zot Zot!
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