<p>I hate to be pessimistic, but… I am, so why avoid it. Here is a post I made in another thread about people complaining about the social life and being determined to revolutionize the party scene. </p>
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I kinda have to agree with lecorbeau on this one…</p>
<p>The problem I think alot of people aren’t seeing is that the lack of UCSD social life is a product of the academics and the six college system. If everyone complains about the lack of social life, that implys that all of these people want a better social life. Theres no way that UCSD is simply full of 20,000 boring people. This leads me to conclude that its something else: I’m sure people in past years have been determined to change that social life reputation, and I’m sure many are successful in their own small worlds, but not for the school overall. The cliche statement is true: if you try and make your own social scene, you can make it work for yourself… but realize that not EVERYONE is doing that, thus UCSD will still maintain its non-party rep. Thats why you can find people at UCSD who say “man, the social life sucks” and the people who say “whatever dude, I party every weekend!” Sadly, the majority are the ones saying it sucks. This doesn’t happen merely because the kids don’t try and have a social life, but because its difficult to balance UCSD academics and quality social life.</p>
<p>While the six college system is nice in dividing such a big school into smaller communities, it does just that – divides you, puts you at separate locations in the school, and makes your community smaller. You may see this as good or bad, and as helpful or detrimental to the social scene. </p>
<p>The problem is that the academics and courseload are intense at UCSD, and it turns party-goer’s such as yourselves into study-goer’s. For a little while, you spend all that time cooped up in the library studying while wishing you could be out partying, and after a while of having to always pick study over party, you become accustomed to that lifestyle. Granted, it has the beach and everything, but alot of kids really dont have the time to go down there. Because of UCSD’s tough workload, its alot easier to say that you won’t get sucked down by it than it is to actually maintain that delicate balance between social life and academic life.
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<p>And I truly hate to say it, but I’m sure that the same is true with sports – tailgaters end up in the library. Getting 10 friends to go is one thing… getting 20,000 to go and pack a stadium is another. =/</p>
<p>UCSD is an academic school… by no means is it a BAD school, quite the contrary, but the sports scene is not one of its strengths.</p>