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When I thought I figured out the bus schedule, I took the wrong route and ended up in an unfamiliar area of large brick houses and a CVS pharmacy. The strange thing about the PAT bus system<\/a> is that you pay or show your pass at different times depending on the time of day and the direction of the bus. I think it comes from the fact that when someone travels more than two zones (more than three miles I think), it\\’s 50 cents more to ride. But I am not sure. So if the bus is going toward downtown, I show my pass when I get on. If the bus is going away from downtown, I show my pass when I get off. Except after 7 pm when I show my pass when I get on in both cases. What\\’s so annoying is that the driver controls the back door, so if I am forced to sit in the back, I have to run toward the front to make my stop.<\/p>\n

So I ended up walking in circles around the Northern part of Squirrel Hill at 9 pm at night. Interestingly, whenever I saw someone walking toward me on the sidewalk, that person would always deliberately cross the street (to avoid me?) Being a little too self-determined, I didn\\’t stop to ask where Forbes was located. So after 5 minutes, I spotted a Carnegie Mellon sign and found my way back. I had landed in an area that was 6 blocks away. I nearly died walking back.<\/p>\n

AIM has been one of those things that changed my life, made my life worse, and made my life so much brighter. In CMU, I have begun to realize that AIM is just a mini-tool for most people. It\\’s like a mailbox for most people whereas for me, it has been a constant ON of socialization. But the point was, I came across someone\\’s AIM profile today. Why is it that there are some people that we are reluctant to get to know? We sometimes don\\’t try. And I saw this person\\’s profile and saw that we had similar tastes. Same tastes in music, movies and tv. Very oddly the same. But I never really tried because my first impression of him wasn\\’t that great. And he never tried. We could have gotten along really well. I lost the chance to make a connection. Missed opportunities?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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