Any people from Irvine?

alicantekid
Mon, 14 Feb 2005 12:54:14 +0000

MrTrojanMan obviously didn’t like UCI, while yackityack and I obviously enjoy(ed) ours. Like any school, there are tons of different views on everything. I’m glad he transferred, because now he seems happy. Good for him. I never once thought about transferring.

I was visiting the campus of the school that I am attending in the fall for my MBA, and I met up with a girl who will be one of my classmates. I asked her where she did her undergraduate degree, and she told me that she went to Harvard. That put a smile on my face, because the two of us ended up in the exact same place, except I went to college for free, and she probably paid over $120,000 to go to Harvard.

Snoozy, let me answer your questions.

About clubs, I don’t know if there were any specific clubs I wished I belonged to, I just wished I got involved with more of them. The reason I wish I got involved with more clubs is that I would have met even more people than I know now. I had a lot of great friends, and we all still keep in touch to this day, but when your best friends all had 3.8-3.9 GPAs and all went off to the top graduate, medical, and law schools in the country, it kinda warps your sense of reality. It kinda made me feel like a slacker. But if I had joined more clubs and met more people closer to “average”, it would have really brought my perception of academic reality a little closer to earth. I was involved in Kababayan (Filipino club), College Bowl Club, Honors Student Council, College Republicans, Ultimate Frisbee Club, I wrote for the School Newspaper, and I was also involved in housing.

Studying harder. I didn’t study harder because college is different than high school. They don’t collect homework, and that means that you have to be really self-disciplined to keep on track. Also, since I was on a full ride, I didn’t really feel obligated to study as much as someone who was paying their own way through school or having their parents pay for them. I just figured that I’d keep my grades high enough to keep getting my scholarship renewed and spend the rest of the time drinking and killing time. I regret not studying because I had a relatively pedestrian GPA, and I realized that every class that I actually put in an honest effort yielded me an A or an A-minus. Unfortunately, there were also several classes that I just slacked off in and I could have gotten much better grades and maybe graduated with Latin Honors.

My major. I realized that my major wasn’t right for me probably in the middle of my junior year (my third year out of five). The reason I didn’t change it at that time was because I was nearly done with all of the hard classes, and I was at the point where I could pick the elective courses I wanted to take. I thought it would be silly to change at that point and have nothing to show for my previous two and a half years of work. I could not have done a business major because UCI doesn’t have that major. And at that point, I still wasn’t really focused on getting an MBA. I probably would have done a major in psychology with a minor in management if I could start over again. I did a minor in psychology, and I loved it. And there were waaaaaaaaaaaaay more hot girls in psych than in bio.