<p>I was on the schedule of classes for Winter 2011, and there are already spots taken in some of the classes. How is this even possible if our winter enrollment times haven’t started yet (even for regents)??</p>
<p>Winter 2011 was last year haha…This year is Winter 2012, no one is enrolled yet</p>
<p>Ahahaha. Obvious freshman is obvious. :rolleyes:</p>
<p>Haha, I think you were looking for Winter 2012…</p>
<p>No guys, I think overchiever92 really doesn’t know how this can happen…</p>
<p>Yes I am a Freshman, good observation… Anyway, why would they call the winter of 2010, the winter of 2011 (and so on)?</p>
<p>Edit: I guess it would make sense (not really still…) since the quarter starts in 2012 or whatever (Winter starts in December of 2011…)</p>
<p>Let’s use some critical thinking skills here. Fall quarter runs from September until early December. Winter break is the rest of December until early January. Which means winter quarter starts in January 2012. Hence it is the Winter 2012 quarter (because winter runs from December 21-March 21, and we don’t have school in December).</p>
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<p>Each quarter is labelled by the time of year and the year it takes place in. Seems fairly self-explanatory.</p>
<p>So, these are the kind of people that get into ucla… must be Hispanic =.=</p>
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<p>I don’t think it’s just Hispanic students that are inferior, because they’re not, (I actually met some pretty smart Hispanics at ucla), but I think it’s because of the fact that just because these kids go to UCLA, they think that they can show off and talk about how much smarter they are than everyone else. I even believed this fact at one point, but after I came here from community college, most of these ucla kids can’t study for their lives (even the ones that try) and most of them don’t know how to think for themselves. It’s even more amusing to think that these were the kids who actually studied in high school and did a criminal amount of community service hours and extra curriculars just to get into this so called “dream” school. After they get in, a lot of these youngsters develop this disillusioned elitism due to some strange and obscure psychological complex and therefore act so entitled, and hence are angry at the fact that transfer students and minority students with “subpar” credentials are able to come to this school. Sorry, but all it is, is that these kids (who get into ucla directly) had better circumstances that allowed them to get into a relatively more selective school. I’m sorry to disappoint but most of the ucla kids are nothing special, even if you’re parents and friends tell you otherwise. You think you’re special, but in reality it’s because you had better circumstances. But this doesn’t go for all ucla students, just some…</p>
<p>@zygote: Whoa, just because someone made a mistake like this, doesn’t mean they’re automatically from one type of race.
Might want to change that or you could be like the new Alexandra Wallace.</p>
<p>@Fizast, I know for sure that my circumstances were worse than a lot of transfers and equal to many Hispanics (I have 0 FAFSA EFC, house was foreclosed on during my Junior year, had to move states and attend a new high school my senior year), so to imply that that people who enter UCLA directly somehow had it easier is ridiculous. I busted my ass to get into a good school with a good scholarship. My roommate on the other hand, who’s a transfer student, comes from a privileged background and didn’t work at all during high school and didn’t go straight to university out of pure laziness. </p>
<p>Also, I’m pretty sure there’s a statistic comparing average transfer UCLA GPA and average non-transfer UCLA GPA that shows that those who enter UCLA directly keep a better GPA once they get here. </p>
<p>HOWEVER, I do agree that 1) zygote was out of line with that comment and 2) that many UCLA students lack the ability to think critically and for themselves. Sometimes I’m shocked by all the questions I see here that could be answered by a Google search or a little bit of independent thinking (i.e. What size backpack should I get- really?!). And I’m no less surprised when I see people not even attempting to understand the concept behind problems but instead just memorizing formulas or mnemonic devices so they can do well on a test. Of course they all complain when the professor throws a curveball that requires you to actually APPLY the knowledge to a novel situation.</p>
<p>Overall, I think this problem isn’t the result of his race OR the fact that he entered straight from high school. I think in general the ability to think critically has been deemphasized in society (probably as a result of the increasing dependence on standardized tests), leading to a generation of students that are incapable of forming their own opinions and doing much outside of regurgitating information they have been spoon-fed by a teacher or textbook.</p>
<p>@zygote: Hey there buddy, that’s a whole buttload of racefail you got there. You better watch what you think, write and say. Not only did you present yourself as a pretentious and snobby jack*ss, you showed how hateful and biased you are as well.</p>
<p>Why is this thread still alive? Also, zygote may have been being sarcastic</p>
<p>Possibly because I’m an extreme procrastinator and I’m trying to find anything to distract me from the paper I have due tomorrow and the finals I have on Thursday and Friday.</p>
<p>Haha, sarcasm never works on the Internet.</p>
<p>I love how my little blunder created a discussion about race and critical thinking… Bottomline is that I personally don’t regard January-February as winter because of where I was born and raised (none of your business where if you felt curious…) so I kind of freaked out when I saw people “already enrolled” in the classes for winter of 2011 (which to me sounds like the winter that is coming up). Anyway, UCLA does things a little differently and Jan-Feb do count as winter, sooo in the words of ThisCouldBeHeavn “Seems fairly self-explanatory” I know. Glad we got that cleared up -___- (Not Hispanic btw…)</p>
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<p>You and your roomate are two out of the thousands of people who go to this school. I deeply admire anybody who is able to overcome such adversities and handicaps in any form, but I was making a generalization with a disclaimer attached. Note that I said, “But this doesn’t go for all ucla students, just some…” So forgive me, if it seemed like I was trying to dwarf your accomplishments and struggles.</p>
<p>But I want to say this. People tend to compare other people’s lives to their own, so in their minds they think, “if I can do it, then other people can do it”. This is simply not true, because everyone is different. An infinite amount of variables determine the motivational strength of an individual, and your life and your friend’s lives infinitely differ. So who’s to say that your life was harder than others? (Note: this is just a generalization, do not reply with a counterexample “some guy you know”). So yeah, in general, ucla kids probably did study harder than those who went to community college. But, all I’m trying to say is that ucla kids are no different than those who went to community college. It’s just that the circumstances were different. And it’s the circumstances alone makes an individual unique, but not better.</p>
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<p>Maybe (s)he was. I honestly wasn’t annoyed by the fact that his comment was racist, because even if it was, we shouldn’t be tripping out about a small insult and blow it out of proportion. What I was annoyed about was that many of these ucla students think they are better than others, and this comment somewhat reflected this. So my long post wasn’t directed at zygote.</p>
<p>Seems appropriate here: [xkcd:</a> Duty Calls](<a href=“http://xkcd.com/386/]xkcd:”>xkcd: Duty Calls)</p>
<p>@overachiever92: You’d be surprised what little blunders do to people, like start religious crusades or grudges that span millennia.</p>
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<p>I had a professor that said the transfer GPA distribution is bimodal, with one part higher than average for other normal students and the other lower. But he may have been talking out of his ass.</p>