Go Banana Slugs!!!! (ucsc)

Tom_Holsinger_1
Tue, 14 Jun 2005 20:31:38 +0000

I have two children at UCSC now - one graduated Saturday but has a summer job there, and another who just finished her sophomore year and will attend the summer session. And I graduated from UCSC in 1971.

The optional written evaluations are reputedly (from posts on the old UCSC forum) a great help for science and engineering undergraduates in applying to graduate school.

UCSC has one of the lowest, if not the lowest, proportion of “adjunct” (not full-time career track) faculty of all the UC’s, and offers a lot more hands-on work & opportunities for undergraduates than most UC’s. This is absolutely true for the performing arts, film and many of the sciences plus engineering. Some majors are dreadful - English is probably the worst.

IMO UCSC is the best place in the state for undergraduates in the performing arts. A sophomore had a singing role in Don Giovanni a few weeks ago. A young man from my children’s high school who had just finished his freshman year had a speaking role in summer Shakespeare two summers ago.

My daughter was a walk-on freshman stage manager for the largest production in the student-run dramas (Chataqua) in the spring of 2004, and did so well she was drafted into the Shakespeare program at the start of the fall 2005 quarter - she hadn’t applied.