TheCaliforniaLife

xleper17,

Join the club
I ALWAYS get picked because I am perceived as the "smart one". I just wish people would pick me for more collaborative thought processes. I don't like being picked because I appear smart and will do all the work.

Another thing I hate is when people actually do help but their work is... let's say... under par. I usually take it home and fix it up to my standards. Luckily college hasn't been like this. I hang around intelligent people to further expand each others intelligence and not to get leached off of >_<

TheCaliforniaLife

Malishka31,

I'm not talking about 20 units that consist of "easy A" courses. I am talking about upper-division CC work. Stuff like Oceanography, Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, Western History till 1500, Western History since 1500, Honors Comparative politics.
Not like Art appreciation, English 101, Math 98, etc.


I'm not saying that 22 units at a CC is equivalent to 22 units at a UC. What I am saying is that the amount of effort I have put into my classes along with honors course work, I can compare the units but not equate them.

fasterfirefox

Honestly, it shouldn't be too surprising that some people will discriminate against transfer students. But really, who cares? At that point, we're in UC because UC thought we were worth the space. End of story.

If someone really starts getting in your face about it, fight back not by recalling your CC days but by kicking his ass in a test. Should be enough to silence those slanderous kids

hotelmoscow

upper division work at community colleges? haha come on get real.

TheCaliforniaLife

Even though I am not taking it, you wouldn't call Calculus 2, Calculus 3, Calculus based Physics, etc, upper division? Well... I don't mean upper division as in 3rd or 4th year courses. What I means is courses that are farther beyond introduction courses.

Guyy

^nope, i wouldnt. people take calc 2, cal3, even calc 4 as freshmen. the same goes for calc based physics. i took calc 3 as a freshman.

bjt223

lol.... those students who talking trash about transfers make me laugh. Thinking they're the god's gift of the world make it more enjoyable to see how far they can get through life. Watch! we will rise!

Malishka31

I took Calc 3, stats, Russian 4, Bio 210, Gen chem 1, English 101- that would constitute a lot of those "upper division" classes for community college, honestly it was not hard and i missed a lot of class. I would also say that for me, most of the courses you mentioned would fall into the easy A category- except maybe history but that would be solely due to the fact that i hate the subject.

I went to UCLA- the big difference form CC to UC is the 10 weeks term versus 16/18. And method of instruction is very different.

Transfers usually do better b/c they are older and in turn more responsible. Age does play a factor at least when it came to the people i met. When you go straight out of high school you have less appreciation for the fact that you are at XYZ university- when you transfer you sort of realize what this means in the grand scheme of things more.

GrassPuppet

Agreed. Hell, I've done all nighters for Calc 1/2/3, same with physics and chemistry, and walked out with A's on exams at my CC. I'm in EE at UCLA, so we're graded on curves. The difference between CC and UCLA courses is like night and day. Everyone is just as smart, and you're graded on your performance relative to your classmates. Again this is true for most South Campus courses (ie. sciences, math, engineering). When you transfer, and you walk out of your first midterm feeling like you blew it, don't worry everyone probably feels the same way, or at least you should hope so.
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Look, there is no "transfer hate" going around, or at least I haven't experienced it. I have met a good deal of engineering transfers, and they are not teased or what have you. No one knows or gives a ****. Most transfers have done very well actually. For example, I know that a significant number of this year's UCLA's Tau Beta Pi new members were last year's transfers. Take that for whatever it's worth.

Well, w/e.


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They are intro courses...**** you should have learned in HS! >.>

oorah87

I'm sure those comments represent a very small portion of the "bad apples" at UCLA. I hardly think that many students as intelligent and responsible as those who attend UCLA would stoop to such juvenile rants. I suggest some of you should steer clear of generalizations as well.... You sound just as bad as they do.

Ektaylor

@oorah87,

Most of those who use juicycampus are Greeks, and we all know about Greeks...

xleper17

as in sororities and frats. not the culture and/or ethnicity... the Greeks are wonderful people.


lol, i just had to say that b/c I once made a comment about greek frats/sororities and someone thought I said "Greeks"... I got an earful and the glorious Greek culture that I should be very thankful for.

Ektaylor

Haha, I didn't even realize how quasi-racist my post comes off -- yea, frat/sororities is what I mean.

Lackofsense

frats = lame.