<p>I’m actually really surprised that students pass petty judgments like this at a school like UCLA. Who cares what people major in and on what campus they take their classes? Did you know that 43% of the class of 2011 at Harvard Business School majored in what would be classified here as a “North Campus” major? I think people should just do their own thing and worry about themselves. This is college, not high school. </p>
<p>For the record, I am not a student at UCLA, but if I was, I would be majoring in Anthropology. Yes, I would be on the “North Campus.” Would I give a damn what people would think of me while I took classes on the North Campus? No. And I’m sure the 43% of those who majored in the humanities and social sciences before they went on to Harvard Business School didn’t give a damn what people thought of their “laziness” either.</p>
<p>To answer the second question of the OP, I wouldn’t look down because someone is a poli sci major. A better question would be if they are pursuing something they are passionate about, which is attractive. </p>
<p>The way you phrased “And not just in a sexually attracted sort of way, in a you’d-actually-be-able-to-take-her-seriously sort of way.” sounds a little extreme. Sure the stereotype is that North Campus classes are easier, but it doesn’t mean that south campus people would not take North Campus majors seriously in a relationship. </p>
<p>tldr: so yes, I have no problem dating North Campus majors. Lets be honest, North Campus girls are generally more attractive than their South Campus counterparts, at least from my experience. (must be the cutthroat environment of some of our classes)</p>
<p>I’m a computer science major and have found my gen. ed. classes (aka north campus) to be incredibly time consuming. Maybe I just chose a bad batch, but I don’t think less of north campus majors.</p>
<p>North campus courses could be time consuming but they still hand out A’s like candy. I think the major that exemplifies this most strongly is English. I really, really hate English. -.-</p>
<p>north campus classes are a joke, i am sure most ppl here can ace most north campus courses if it was crammed into one week (except classes for bizecon)</p>
<p>it ****es me off when some people think all gpa is same. one of my friends has 3.4 in poli sci and she thinks she can do better in south campus like math cus she liked math in hs</p>
<p>where do UCLA psychology BA students do their research at? In UCLA Med centers, in medical centers/hospitals? thanks!</p>
<p>the reason why I am asking the question above is because we have a family friend who works at Berkeley as an accountant and he told me that pre-meds do similar volunteer works, internships, and research as students going for a BA in Psych in Berkeley/UCLA.</p>
<p><em>all these are generalizations</em> <em>Not everyone is like this</em></p>
<p>North campus is more socially aware people who want to make it in life through “hustle and grind” they usually know how to party and learn actual life lessons of balancing work and play. Usually understand their workload is easier but try and tell a north campus person you are smarter than them, you may be a harder worker in south campus but many will claim they can get the grades in south campus classes if they put in the hours of studying required. North campus people think"work smarter not harder" I know a kid who is premed but history major has as close to a 4.0 as possible, took all the premed classes needed and rather than struggle to keep it as a bio major he chills in less stressful history classes </p>
<p>South Campus are future doctors/ people crunching numbers in labs who cant hold a conversation with you face to face. They cant hold their alcohol and are prone to black out. They are also filled with people who don’t respect North Campus people yet we all had similar GPA and SAT scores to get in the first place. Claim they will be making millions but north campus is full of future lawyers i-bankers. </p>
<p>imho north campus cunning social people, South campus socially awkward hard working people</p>
<p>Alright, **** it. I wasn’t going to get involved by I don’t want to do my homework.</p>
<p>In my experience, North Campus has two very distinct groups: those who are there for an easy degree and those who are there because they love the material.</p>
<p>I’ll start with Group 1. These are the people who go out and party Thursday, Friday, and Saturday night only to sit in a public area and talk about how stressed they are with their workload. They’re the butt of the North Campus Major jokes because, quite frankly, they put in the minimum effort in the least taxing majors so that they can go party with their bros. They’re your typical frat guys, and you can see them stumbling down Gayley at 1 am talking about how fine the *****es at that party were. In my opinion, they’re the reason UCLA has dropped in ranking over the past few years and should be weeded out of the university to make room for people who want to learn.</p>
<p>tl;dr for Group 1: DING FRIES ARE DONE</p>
<p>Now, take Group 2. These are people who love what they study and really do want to enter that field. They may still party but not to the extreme of Group 1 (and actually show some restraint when they have work to do). In my opinion, these people aren’t the target of jokes and deserve some respect. I can’t say anything about what will happen in their future or what their careers and lifestyles will be. These are the students who came to UCLA for the education, not the “LOL GUYS WE’RE IN COLLEGE LETS GET HAMMERED AND **** TIL WE GET SYPHILIS!”</p>
<p>tl;dr for Group 2: I’m CEO, *****.</p>
<p>Then there’s South Campus, my home turf. I won’t say that some deserve to be here and some don’t but I will say that some should be here and some should not. If you’re a Computer Science major and you consistently get 20% on projects and tests when the average is closer to 60%, you should probably rethink what you’re doing. In any case, most of us do work very hard and have a lot of work that we actually enjoy doing. Our majors are our passions; we know we could have gone somewhere else or done something else to get an easy time but then we wouldn’t be happy. We like our fields and the people in them even if some are a little socially awkward. I’m sure North Campus has its weird people and introverts; it just so happens that South Campus has a few more. There are still a lot of cool people down here, we’d just prefer to chill and play video games or watch movies than go get hammered and **** ourselves in front of large groups of people.</p>
<p>tl;dr for South Campus: We like what we do and we like who we are. If you have a problem with that, stop using cell phones and Google because that ****'s ours.</p>
General econ classes lack work and many students, as a matter of fact, do study courses in one or two consecutive all-nighters but there’s no guaranteeing an “A”. </p>
<p>There are curves and halfway deflated grading distributions that keep many students from this. I feel econ has significantly less work than most north campus majors while handing out much more modest grades.</p>
<p>The phenomenon of “cramming” is more restricted to south campus, though. The bulk of the work from a number of north campus majors is distributed evenly throughout the quarter in the form of papers and such.</p>
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This could make sense for Econ majors. We have absolutely no work most weeks of the quarters but, when midterms and finals come, it gets very stressful very fast. -.-</p>
<p>Agree with TheRageKage12. Those north campus people who just want to get an easy degree and party and **** around should be weeded out! They don’t deserve respect at all.</p>
<p>However I do respect people who do north campus majors because they love the material.</p>
<p>I also agree that not all south campus majors are intelligent. There are lots of stupid people in majors like biochem/MCDB/physiology. I don’t want to label a specific group, but I do see lots of chicks who struggle in lower div chem/physics/maths classes and thought that they might become doctors…</p>
<p>The thing is, at UCLA, there are LOTS of biochem/MCDB/physiology majors, but they don’t actually go into the field of these subjects. They just want to go to med school and make money. No passion for life at all. I don’t respect these people neither.</p>
<p>I guess the point that I want to make is, as long as you love what you’re studying and you study for knowledge not money, I 100% respect you.</p>
<p>There are also polymath south campus kids who probably know more history/language/philosophy stuff than most north campus people. The other way around is rare, because you don’t have to take history/language/philosophy classes to know history/language/philosophy. There’re loads of books around and you can just read them, but unless you’re a super genius, you wouldn’t know upper div south campus materials if you do not study that subject, this is because of the time/effort you need to put in.</p>
<p>P.S. Most of the south campus geniuses are in maths/physics and the Engineering School.</p>
<p>i agree with most of above…except i dont think ppl who are studying something just to make money are bad ppl…maybe they are willing to subject themselves to something they dont like for the sake of their future family (this is what makes a parent a good parent)…IF on the other hand they want the money to go party, buy fancy clothes, etc…then they are complete idiots…most south campus ppl are like the latter tho</p>
<p>I’ll put it this way. I’m an Art major (about as far north as it gets), and i’ve been spending on average about 20 hours of week in the studio, plus the 8 hours a week we have for class. I’m also taking two GEs on top of that. If anyone thinks I’m lazy, then they can go ahead and screw themselves.</p>
<p>Hahaha–my son is a senior at UCLA and I have heard a lot about the north/south campus debate. It just shows how young and out of touch with reality many students are. You live in the “fake” world of UCLA. When you graduate, you will meet and work with all sorts of people. Some of you hard core engineering types will fall for a psychology major and some of you artists might find a statistician quite appealing. </p>
<p>Quit judging each other, you all picked your majors so you obviously have special skills in that field. And uhmm… there probably aren’t a lot of “dumb” people at UCLA.</p>
<p>My sister’s a senior art major and she works harder, has longer labs (I guess they’re studios or something, not labs but whatever), has to pull more all nighters for projects, and puts in more hours for her units than any of the rest of us. And that includes my brother who’s a math major, my mom who was a physics major, and my sister who did biology. Art would be a nightmare major. Just sayin’.</p>