<p>I’m in my first year at UCLA. So far, it’s been extremely easy. I thrive in the no nonsense, “if you want help, get it yourself” environment in here. I don’t really like the mushy, caring private school types (like my HS). Anyways, I’ve found that if you do the work and study hard, it’s not impossible to get an A+. Of course, searching professors on bruinwalk.com helps too. 
I’m a history major btw, and I’m passionate about it, so it may be different if you’re a south campus major. In any case, I think if you’re really interested in what you do, everything comes in easy. “Working” on something you like doesn’t seem to be work at all when you do it.</p>
<p>^note: South Campus is a different story.</p>
<p>^YES. North and South Campus are literally polar opposites. If you’re a North Campus major here, your life will be easy. A South Campus major will have to spend a lot more time studying and life will be more stressful. That’s not to say it’s impossible, though. The keys to making it here are balance and utilizing your time wisely. There are a million things to do here and you have to decide when you need to study, and when you can have fun. If you don’t make time for fun, you will be miserable and your four years here will NOT be the best times of your life. The environment can be stressful so keeping a balance between work and fun in your life is absolutely necessary.</p>
<p>I don’t know why I even bother, because when I make comments like this people start to pass judgement and call me stupid and lazy for being North Campus.</p>
<p>But anyway. South campus is definitely harder to get a higher grade in because of the curve system, but I wouldn’t say that being North campus makes your life super super easy either. I can’t tell you how many times my south campus friends have taken north campus upper division electives and incessantly complained about the measly 200 pages they’re expected to read a week. It’s like umm… try taking 4 classes where you’re reading 200+ pages a week for each. Stop whining.</p>
<p>But I digress. I think Fromcalwithlove hits the nail right on the head. The key to getting good grades is all about passion. I love my major and I have close to a 4.0. I even know several south campus majors who have 3.8s or even 3.9s because they are incredibly passionate about what they’re studying. Oftentimes I’ve noticed that the south campus majors with low GPAs are only in it for the money.</p>
<p>Yeah, TiaWNPP is correct. My roommate’s a physics major who takes sciences classes and he’s some sort of above-average/genius kid. He’s breezing through the classes. I for one have classmates who are doing poorly with all the papers and essay midterms on my history classes, so you really can’t say that North Campus is easy. Again, if you’re really passionate about it, and you really have a knack for the subjects, it wouldn’t be work.</p>
<p>hey i have no idea what campus bio is on haha… enlighten me ?</p>
<p>North campus is arts, humanities, social sciences, etc. South campus is math, science, engineering, etc.</p>
<p>So bio would be considered a south campus major.</p>
<p>okay, the south campus stigma seems more elitist than i ever thought. Im a north campus major (political science) however I am also one of the billion premeds here at UCLA. My first quarter here I took a cluster a poly sci and an english course, and the english class was by far the easiest. right now im takin 14a and math 3a a long with two poly sci courses (10 and 20) and poly sci 10 and 20 each require way more work than the chem and math combined. Again im north campus and i got a 98 on math 3a midterm and 96 on chem midterm and both of those grades are before any kind of curve, my poly midterms were 83 and 92 and both were graded on a much harsher scale… </p>
<p>rant over… UCLA is what you make of it, if you were coddled all through high school and that is the only reason you did well, then maybe UCLA isnt the best option; however, if your like me and hated that you had people tell you what to do and you want a new challenge to see if you really have what it takes come on down and check it out</p>
<p>good luck on getting in</p>
<p>^ dude, you should never have taken poli sci 10. That’s just killing yourself.</p>
<p>^hey WhichOne you sound a little “elitist” yourself when you brag about your grades like that. </p>
<p>In any case, Chem 14A and Math 3A are joke classes. I mean, Chem 14A is a science GE. Seriously, nothing to write home about.</p>
<p>That wasn’t elitism. She was making a point and corroborating it with evidence. Elitism is when you say, “I’m better than you because my classes are really hard and yours must be easy because mine are so hard therefore I’m smart and you’re lazy.” </p>
<p>And anyway, whether 14A and 3A are hard in the long run over the course of a 4-year science major isn’t particularly relevant, because 14A was when my south campus friends started giving me flack about how hard their classes were and how easy mine are.</p>
<p>ooh okay thanks for letting me know :)</p>
<p>On a side note, you know what would be fun? A full-blown North Campus vs. South Campus Bruin Civil War using paintballs. The objective is to “conquer” the buildings and/or plazas associated with the two divisions.</p>
<p>This way, We North Campus “men-of-the-world” could kick some elitist, nerd South Campus behind… not to mention conquer and occupy your new food place. South Campus peeps would then strive to get Lebensraum by blitzkrieging our oh so wonderful Royce Quad, Sculpture garden, and occupy our famous Royce Hall and other Romanesque Buildings.</p>
<p>FYI, for all I care you guys can have the Janss Steps and the hill between the dorms and bruinwalk. I hate those two!</p>
<p>Nah, I think we would lose haha.</p>
<p>South campus majors are more competitive… too many psycho premeds. I think that south campus would be way serious about it. Half of north campus would be like, “Oh cool, sounds fun!” and the other half would be like, “This is completely pointless,” and our army would be too small.</p>