| i was planning on minoring in comm at UCSD, took a class, and immediately changed my mind LOL. yeah it seems EXTREMELY theory-based. however, our comm department is supposed to be pretty damn good. i don't know anything about the comm dept at UCD. ERC's GE's are on the harder side, but nothing that's impossible. are you done with all your writing requirements? if not, you might still have to take some of the MMW (making of the modern world) classes. each of the six colleges have their own respective GE and writing requirements. MMW is one of the hardest writing requirements, along with HUM in revelle.
in terms of campus/environment, UCSD owns UCD. UCD is pretty much in the middle of nowhere. like literally nowhere. you drive down the highway and see nothing but fields, and all of a sudden UCD pops up out of nowhere. UCSD is by no means blooming with night life either, but there are at least places to go to lol | 
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