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FA21 - Week 10: O Micron, Where art Thou? edition.

Oh, hi Tritons!

If it’s your first go ‘round the weekend-before-finals track: Welcome. We’re glad you’re here. Don’t be surprised when you hear screaming throughout the Res Halls tomorrow night at midnight – it’s a storied pre-quiet-hours campus tradition. If you live off-campus, consider what your neighbors might think before you start shouting into the void.

We’ll keep this week's WWL short since we know you’re not particularly thirsty for more reading at the mo, with just a couple newbies and some relevance-remaining old-bies below.

We truly hope that you’ve found our series of weekly updates and occasional try-hard wordplay to be both informative and fun in equal measure – we’ve certainly had a blast putting it together.

Good luck, be safe, and get boosted, Tritons. We’ll chat again in Week 1 of Winter. - Ian.

Pack your shot and go.

Whether you’re boostin’ a move on campus before break – or it works out better to take the plunge while you’re home for the holidays – what matters most is that you get your booster shot as soon as you’re eligible.

Protect yourself, provide for others. Contribute to the health and well-being of the entire Triton community by getting your shot as part of the Boostin’ Out for Basic Needs challenge, and $50K will be further allocated to support food security, housing resources, and financial wellness when 10K students get boosted by the end of 2021.

Boost Beef? BTW, we hear that AS and GPSA have a little friendly rivalry brewing… will more grads or undergrads take their shot to shine?

Pack your coat, not your COVID.

That is, unless you’re staying in sunny SoCal for the break, where our winter weather is more “dry heat” than “warm parka”.

Here’s some tips on how to be safe and protect your loved ones if you plan to hit the road, sky, or light rail this holiday season:

Testing sandwich: Get tested before you go, and tested when you get back. If you live in campus-operated housing, be sure to familiarize yourself with the applicable return protocol.
Risk reduction: No, we don’t mean bowing out of family game night. Lessen the likelihood of infection by remembering to wear a mask on public transportation, and to keep it on when you’re not actively eating or drinking.
Evergreen content: Last year’s holiday travel tips video remains strikingly relevant this time around. Going global? ISPO’s got iStudents iCovered with iTravel.

U U-Pass?

If you don’t know, now you know: students ride fare-free on the Blue Line trolley from campus via Transportation Services’ Triton U-Pass, which can now get you all the way to the airport for zero dollars – and plenty of sense.

Trolley rocks ‘n free. Use your U-Pass (but don’t move the hyphen) to take the Blue Line down to the Old Town Transit Center, where you’ll transfer to the San Diego Flyer – an electric shuttle that regularly serves San Diego International.

Quick Hits and Bits

Here for it. During Winter Break, campus will officially close between Dec. 23-31, 2021. However: Target, Pines, and Sixth Market will remain open with modified hours to support our on-campus students, as will Recreation facilities, CAPS, and the grocery shuttle to Convoy St.

ICYMI

Weeks 8-9: Boost Mode edition.

Weeks 6-7: Horton Hears edition.

WWL: Past edition Archive

Thank you, Tritons, for everything you continue to do to care for one another.

Sincerely,

Office of the Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs
UC San Diego

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