Pros and Cons Of UCSB and UCI

awakenedream
Thu, 07 Apr 2005 18:06:06 +0000

brizzle: ucsd pros and cons

pros
-by the ocean/beach
-can take surfing class
-has underwater basket weaving class
-good at ballroom dancing, lol
-some dorms have ocean view
-eucalyptus trees on campus give nice naturey feel
-cool looking spaceship library
-one of the guys from my favorite band, switchfoot, went there
-sungod festival is awesome
-very good academics
-very relaxing environment, laid back
-in nice, wealthy city, la jolla
-people are nice

cons
-la jolla is pretty conservative and doesn’t like any noise or rowdiness, not very welcoming toward ucsd
-because of that, among other things, ucsd is relatively socially dead.
-so you need to make a big effort if you want to have some sort of social life
-not very much people who are non-white, non-asians. practically everybody is white or asian. so that may make other ethnicities feel out of place
-little school spirit, division 2 sports, decided against football team, etc
-6 college system may promote some divisions among the “colleges” instead of overall cohesive unity
-in general and in a lot of cases but not all, a lot of people (except maybe for bioengineering) are “bitter ucla rejects”, but not ALL, just a good amount
-since the social scene requires a lot of effort, there are more socially inept people
-ucsd has the reputation of having unattractive girls, i didn’t really notice this, but there must be some reason why everybody keeps saying it.
-for some reason, a lot of people at ucsd don’t like it there.
-not actually in the city (it used to be called uc la jolla), so more isolated. but i guess if you make friends at sdsu u can have a lot of fun