The home nurse company called yesterday to say that they were coming again at 4:00 pm today so I went for a walk around 1;30 pm. My dad was out all morning and was taking a nap so I went by myself. This time, I decided to go to the middle of campus and take a few photos. I have lots of photos of old buildings from before, but nothing from this century. I ended up walking about 2.2 miles and taking a hour to do so.
The campus is a mix of new and old. Some of the buildings like Royce Hall and Powell Library have been there for 100 years, while other are brand spanking new. I was an electrical engineering major so spent a lot of time in South Campus, especially Boelter Hall.
There is a depressing Math Science Library on the eight floor that I avoided at all costs. I studied mostly in my room. Hanging out in libraries was actually distracting for me since I needed some music playing, and these were the days of the Sony Walkman and cassette mix tapes. Here are the iconic UCLA buildings: Royce Hall and Powell Library.
Here is the UCLA mascot: Bruin Bear.
Finally, the engineering school is named after Henry Samueli. He was a professor at UCLA and was my instructor for EE113: Digital Signal Processing. I probably got a B in the class; I got a lot of B’s in engineering classes. He later founded Broadcom Corporation with Henry Nicholas, and donated $35M to get his name on the engineering school. The offices are in a nice new building called Engineering VI (used to be housed in Engineering IV). Classes are still in the very old Boelter Hall though.
I did get a bit winded since the initial part of the walk was all uphill. I remember walking this route daily for years while I was a student. Since the campus was closed, it was pretty deserted. Usually this would be the beginning of Winter Quarter and a busy time on campus.
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The worst part today was that I tripped over some “Keep Off Grass” ropes outside Royce Hall. I was trying to frame the photo nicely, and didn’t see/feel the rope. Bang! I tripped and fell on my right knee. There’s no cut or major bruising yet, but it hurt a lot walking the mile back to the apartment. I blame peripheral neuropathy..
Life with chronic diseases 