Hello! These blogs will be for my H English 102 class, enjoy!         

 

Journal # 1

  

My neighborhood is defined by all of the people around it who are going to college but do not live in the dorms anymore. I live in an apartment where the majority of the population from 500 feet in any direction are students attending UNR. The boundaries are set by Downtown Reno as the South, UNR’s campus as the North and East, and lastly, my apartment as the West because that is usually as far west as I go unless I need to get groceries or something. I do not like to go into Downtown Reno unless I’m with a group because I always get an uneasy feeling and annoyed with the obnoxious traffic. I have never felt a need to walk past UNR because everything I need I can pretty much get at UNR. So, the only time I really go out of my neighborhood boundaries is for work and shopping because everyone I hang out with either lives at the dorms or in my square boundary.

            The determination of my route to school is about the same everyday whether I’m on a bike or walking. I only live one block, maybe two, from UNR and just take the same streets to get there. The terrain consists of paved roads, sidewalks, and a hill. Sometimes, I choose to walk because I can’t stand riding my bike up hills. Yet, every morning I walk to school there’s always many kids walking the same route as I am, which makes me think that a 1-3 mile radius from the school in any direction is pretty much a little student city made up on its own.