<p>I don’t know much about the Village but it is far from the rest of the campus (there is a campus bus service that goes there). Visit the [UCSC</a> housing website](<a href=“http://housing.ucsc.edu/village/index.html"]UCSC”>The Village) to find out more about it.</p>
<p>You can also get a single bedroom in an apartment in one of the 10 (residential) colleges. Each apartment has its own kitchen, shower, living room and you live with 5 or 6 other people. If you do this you have to order a 55 meal plan for each quarter but you can use 1 meal plan to buy $8 worth of stuff in a campus restaraunt/store. I say stuff because there is one place on campus that has groceries and hygiene products for sale that you can use a meal for. </p>
<p>In regards to people, UCSC is the most liberal/hippie of all the UCs. The people here are very chill and friendly. Parties actually aren’t common here because there is a small greek system.</p>