flemmyd

thanks shoefactory!

i looked over the biomedical eng thing (it seems better then my biochem approach). thanks.

just to make sure, if i did do the biomed eng program/CHP, would i only have to take the social sci core honors/thesis (199 +196)? i wouldnt have to take the sci core cause im already a science major and i wouldnt have to take the hum core honors cause i would be an engineering major?

should considering not enrolling in the CHP as a frosh just so i can get out of the honors hum core?

ShoeFactory

Nah, CHP owns. Don't not enroll in CHP to miss hum core.

I am BME:Premed, and i am exempt from honors hum core, so it works.

almondflavored

sorry to post this again but can i get shoefactory to answer this one, the other person wasn't too confident in her answer

when does the first come first thing start for housing? is during the one you submit with SIR or the contract that they send to you later on?

ShoeFactory

Just get your contract in on time.

There's no first come first serve as long as you are ON TIME.

If you are late, then chances are you aren't gonna get on-campus housing.

They'll send you a contract later and you will have to mail it to them.

kaii

How interesting/challenging are the classes?

Also, please tell me they have other vegan/veggie things than the unhealthy veggi burgers I saw on the website!

Is it hard to get a single bedroom/room in AV as a freshman?

ShoeFactory

classes are not hard(writing is the hardest). note: i am sci major and I suck at writing. top 15% of class will get an A (roughly) in your science classes so it really depends how smart/hardworking you are. My physics/math are uninteresting. Chemistry is interesting.

Best veggie thing is the organic salad bar. the veggie stuff doesn't look very good.

Yes, i think it'll be hard to get a single in AV.

kaii

That's terrible about veggie stuff )':

I'm really good at writing (I'm right brained) so I have no problems at all with that sort of stuff. If I'm an IS major, would I have to take science/math classes? I hate science/math (but that doesn't mean I could do it). How much liberty do you have with essays? If you felt like writing a plausible and pertinent essay on UFO's would they mind at all?

I'm really undecided about UCI/UCSD or college in general since I didn't get into any that I REALLY wanted to go in... as a college student, what would you advise me? (I'm thinking of waiting a year and applying to more privates [I'm 1st generation and didn't know till now that applying to privates=more aid ])

ShoeFactory

private colleges are super duper expensive.

go to whichever (uci/ucsd) you prefer.

In the general writing classes aren't that liberal with topics. You have to take breadth sci/math and that's it.

I know people that WERE good at writing in HS and theyre pulling b's in writing. The 'curve' in writing is pretty damn tough. (my writing teacher gave out 1 A out of 23 students for our last essay and it was me! /endbrag).

kaii

Lol on your bragging! Congrats (:

I thought they were expensive up until the point where I got accepted to a private art college and they gave me almost all my tuition in grants/scholarships. The school itself gave me 15k per year with 1.8k work study.

I would stay at home, except for the fact that my dad is an alcoholic and can be very emotionally abusive. To be honest, I don't fit in at UCSD/UCI at all, and I wouldn't be happy there and if I could, I would wait a year and reapply. The thing is, I can't stand to be with my dad because he's so controlling and violent. And living in San Diego, it's hard to get an apartment let alone a job to pay it.

BirdKiller

Why do you feel you won't "fit in" at UCSD/UCI?

kaii

It's really hard to describe; almost like asking someone why they love their boyfriend/girlfriend. It's just that little spark of frisson you feel. I'm very radical and I KNOW I'm supposed to change the world in a very gigantic way. I feel things and I can tell how things essentially are. It feels plasticky and superficial at both campuses; so much to blind you from a real world. (Not to be all preachy or to offend anyone) I'm VERY passionate and with my numerous visits to both campus/areas (Having lived in the vicinity of SD for 16 years and vacationed/visited in the Irvine area a lot) it's no surprise as to what I'm getting. I want to set things aflame, blind people with knowledge, SHAKE THEM and open people's eyes to a greater universe! However, I feel that both campuses are not essentially the places for me to orchestrate those things. I really really want to find other people like myself who will FIGHT to show the world and the beings who live in it that we are all linked and that all things are majestic! I just don't see the passion there.

Exactly that...to a simplified extent.

flemmyd

thanks shoefactory. i just got approved to transfer from chem-->biomedical eng: premed.

so if i did CHP with that major, does that mean the only honors classes i would have to do would be the social sci core and the research? i know h. o-chem is optional, the sci core would be dropped (as a sci major) and i would be ecxmpt from the hum core cause im engineering, right? what about the BME 110A-B sequence?

do college of engineering majors have the same breath requirements as normal? at most other schools, they get slack.

ShoeFactory

honors general chem you would have to take.

I don't know about BME sequence, im not there yet (i just did bme 1)

I think they have the same breadth, never heard about having less, not sure.

flemmyd

i would have to take h. gen chem? what if i already did gen chem at IVC? (im a very local student)

ShoeFactory

you can find a way to negotiate and get out of it.

but you will probably have to take hgchem.

anyways hgchem is not bad.

sign up for penner for h2a, rowland for h2b, shaka for h2c.

I had penner: very interesting.
I have shaka currently: very very interesting.
Rowland didn't teach this year's h2b, he normally does. But since he's famous, you should take his class.