<p>I have done nothing to deserve this jury summons. :(</p>
<p>@Cayton Have fun haha, I just finished my jury duty a couple weeks ago. I literally sat there for 8 hours and I didn’t even get my name called. </p>
<p>@OCaptnMyCaptn </p>
<p>Dang.</p>
<p>Oh well. There’s always the possibility that I could be selected to serve on a murder trial. That could be fun, lol.</p>
<p>It happened to one of my professors earlier this semester; he couldn’t teach in class for the first few weeks because he had jury duty. The defendants in the trial were facing multiple counts of first degree murder, armed robbery, illegal gun possession, and a whole bunch of other charges. They were found guilty and probably got life in prison. :O</p>
<p>@Cayton Yes you have, You sentenced me to a summer class with Ralph Taylor when you voted for UCLA. He is the WORST professor ever! By the way, you can get out of jury duty. </p>
<p>@CollegeDropout1 </p>
<p>Sorry about that, lol.</p>
<p>And I really have no way of getting out of jury duty until I get to court. Maybe I’ll be disqualified. Hopefully. :P</p>
<p>If we need more time than two years to finish a degree, is it still possible to get financial aid? Or are we cut off after two years?</p>
<p>Also, what can I do with a useless degree? </p>
<p>@CollegeDropout1 - You can possibly get more FA after 2 years, but the Blue & Gold plan only guarantees 2 years. I think whether you’re eligible for more funds depends on whether or not you’ve already depleted all of your state/ federal FA. UCLA may give additional grants, but of course it’s not guaranteed. </p>
<p>@Cayton </p>
<p>I had jury duty last week. Like @OCaptnMyCaptn said, I also just sat there for seven hours and didn’t even get my name called :-S </p>
<p>Have fun, lol. </p>
<p>I have never once been called for jury duty. Ever! I have no idea why.</p>
<p>Has anyone looked at their calgrant status? Mine is on hold for something called AB 840 and I called the cal grant office and they told me UCLA has to verify that I meet all the requirements to receive the grant but I called UCLA’s financial aid office and no one had any clue what I was talking about when I mentioned the AB 840. has anyone else dealt with this? and can you please tell me what I’m supposed to do!</p>
<p>@collegedropout1I have not researched the upcoming job opportunities in environmental studies in terms of payscale, but it’s hard to imagine some will not be high-paying, especially within specialty corporations. It’s considered one of the top growing fields over the next ten years. Have you looked at any of the minors at UCLA to augment Geology? The big one that comes to mind is the Geospatial Information Systems and Technologies minor. Others are Conservation Biology minor, Environmental Systems and Society minor, and Geography/Environmental Studies minor</p>
<p>When there are new departments being developed that’s usually when people can really take off because there aren’t a lot of others with that major. UCSB has that new one called Spacial Science (major and minor)
<a href=“http://spatial.ucsb.edu/”>http://spatial.ucsb.edu/</a>. </p>
<p>With the right major and minor you can position yourself nicely, kind of duplicating spatial science. Urban Planning would be another good minor but not offered at UCLA - although it is at UCSD. :(. </p>
<p>You want some coding - you can always add it later in a quickie course. Knowing coding is a good add, but you don’t really have to major in it nowadays. If you went environmental, the main positive to coding is it helps you communicate with the folks doing the coding. Makes you marketable, but your skill set is of a different nature - and I think a very good one. There are coders coming out the a**, if you get my drift.</p>
<p>FYI, I mentioned this before: Marissa Meyer CEO of Yahoo was accepted to Stanford and was going to be a pediatric neurosurgeon, but noticed the major was offered everywhere. She did a spreadsheet of all the Ivys she was accepted to and found some weird major at Stanford that no one else had and decided it would be best to be unique. So she grabbed it. It was a multi-discipline, not even related to her initial major. Anyhow, she recommends taking the little known major route with future potential. </p>
<p>@Peanut0 I’m dealing with this too. I’d like to know what to do as well.</p>
<p>@lindyk8 - Urban Planning is offered as a minor at UCLA. That’s my minor 
They don’t offer it as a major though. It’s under the Public Affairs umbrella.</p>
<p>Yeah, just saw it. My bad… 
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<p>I missed it at first too. I actually only found it doing a google search for Urban Planning programs. I was excited to find the minor at ucla. It helps bridge me to the masters program I want.</p>
<p>My daughter emailed UCLA. They got her transcript and IGETC cert. It was not on her MyUCLA. So passing on. Another thing off the checklist! </p>
<p>FYI, I told my daughter I was concerned because every communication I have with the UCLA parents’ emails ends with my saying, Go Bruins! If anyone knows me, hell would have frozen over before I ever did that in the past for any college. I’ve officially crossed over to the dark side. </p>
<p>Go Bruins!</p>
<p>@lindyk8 </p>
<p>That’s great! I sent in my transcripts some time ago(I’ll deal with IGETC next week because that’s when I’ll go back to my school to deal with it. I think it’s closed until Monday since spring semester just ended and summer session will begin next week), and MyUCLA still says that they haven’t received it, but I know they did, otherwise, UCLA would’ve contacted me about it weeks ago.</p>
<p>They should fix MyUCLA. :(</p>
<p>@ocnative </p>
<p>Ugh. Seven hours? :(</p>
<p>@Cayton yea I’ve been calling UCLA for two weeks already and they’re making me feel like I’m crazy since no one knows what I’m talking about lol I’m just stressed over it because I want to make sure that I get my money 
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<p>How on earth am I supposed to attract beautiful ladies if I am only making $41,000 a year as a geology major? </p>
<p><a href=“http://career.ucla.edu/Files/PDF/FirstDestinationSurvey/FDS_2010_091411.pdf”>http://career.ucla.edu/Files/PDF/FirstDestinationSurvey/FDS_2010_091411.pdf</a></p>