<p>GUYS THIS IS AN EMERGENCY!! My GF just called screaming that Glee is coming back on TV this week… oh boy</p>
<p>@aj i know first hand how intense dp gets. hahaha. i got MIP too back in highschool!
^^FYL good sir.</p>
<p>it really is an experience… and yes FACE STOMPED. he was very drunk and then got up and ran away from the paramedics trying to help him because he did not want to get arrested for being drunk and underage. guy was out side the place iwas staying at and gushing blood.</p>
<p>buuuuut the rest of the time was great. the campus is really cool, the area is great, the school spirit is out of this world, and people are sooo happy to be there</p>
<p>id be a pretty happy guy if i went there. that is until the std tests came back. i feel that id contract herpes just from setting foot on the campus.</p>
<p>@ eager2go: You can easily change your major at UCB as long as the major you’re trying to switch into is in the same college as your initial major.</p>
<p>I will be switching from philosophy to psychology because they’re both in the College of L&S. Of course, I would have to be accepted first. Switching majors at UCB is easy as long as you switch within the same college. You don’t have to notify them.</p>
<p>You can switch at CALSO. You won’t officially declare until the fall anyway. As long as you have the prereqs done for your new major, or nearly done, you’re fine.</p>
<p>OK…now time for my UCLA experience :)! Here we go…feverish writing!..</p>
<p>ahem… yeah i blacked out of sat night… not sure what happened.</p>
<p>@emil you slacker! where have you been dammit?</p>
<p>@AJ lol last time when i was at UCSB, i got a ticket for RUI, riding under the influence. W T F.</p>
<p>^ it was pretty lax this weekend because they didnt want a student revolt because of the cancellation of floatopia. they basically let kids be kids and let us party. but they didnt want extra rowdiness, and handed out tickets like it was going out of style.</p>
<p>^good times… but yea its crazy wild at ucsb. i blacked out this other time i was at ucsb and ended up in the AEP house, in a room with some girls dancing on a stripper pole and i was holding a bottle of skye lol.</p>
<p>oh god AEP house hahahah.</p>
<p>look at this… scary man within 24-48 hours … its just prediction but still GET READY hahah</p>
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<p>That’s really really freaky.</p>
<p>San Andreas is on the rise</p>
<p>the fault is going insane.omg. this is all ucla & berkeley’s fault for not releasing decisions last week!</p>
<p>according to that website, ucla decisions will be delayed.</p>
<p>@ SF: Well I’ve been at UCLA for the past few days. Tbh I returned around midnight Friday, but I was too tired to type up my experience. At last, now I will share my insight from my trip to UCLA!..Just to note, does anybody else find it difficult to start up on College Conf. again after taking a break from it for a few days? At first I was having withdrawal issues lmao but now I’m finding it tough to go on! Weird…anyway, lol UCLA!</p>
<p>I wasn’t even going to visit UCLA because I had sworn my allegiance to Berkeley months ago. You guys on here that know me understand my crazy passion, intense love, and wild enthusiasm for Berkeley. In fact, I was considering re-applying next year even if I were to be accepted everywhere except Berkeley…including UCLA. </p>
<p>However, after my trip everything changed. My mentality, beliefs, understanding of the UC’s, knowledge…all of it - changed. lol ok ok maybe that’s a bit too dramatic, but seriously UCLA changed my perspective.</p>
<p>I guess I’ll begin by saying that I wouldn’t have even visited if it wasn’t for my friend, Eva. She’s a senior in hs and has already been admitted/probably going to UCLA. She had an extra ticket to Admit Day for freshman, and when she had invited me last week, I realized that this would be a great opportunity to go check it out! Plus, I’ve been on Spring Break this week. Ironically, Eva and I met on College Confidential! Crazy, I know, but you can meet some seriously amazing people on here that are more than happy to go through the college admissions process with you. I had never met her before, but we’re friends on facebook and have gotten to know each other well enough over the past 5 months or so to meet up and check out UCLA. </p>
<p>My default picture is of Eva and me in front of Royce Hall:</p>
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<p>Ahh, the CC connections! Nothing better. I’d be soooo lost without this site lol.</p>
<p>Anyway, when my Mom and I arrived on Wednesday after 7 tumultuous hours of driving, we were pretty tired and just hung out. Admit Day was Thursday, so we didn’t have anything planned for Wednesday. We stayed at the Angelino Hotel (I recommend it…but they only have valet parking, and the valet guys weren’t all that nice) and ate dinner on the top floor where there was a folk band playing. It was nice to just lounge out on the top floor, grab some drinks (fizzy water for me :)), and look out the panoramic windows at what is the heart of LA beneath us. Overall, the hotel experience alone was interesting. </p>
<p>I noticed that people seem different in LA. Everyone seemed to be affluent, tan, well-to-do, and some were very snobbish. Overall, it was extremely different from San Francisco…Well I guess the pretentiousness level was the same, but a different form of pretentiousness altogether lol. </p>
<p>The next day I woke up at 7:00 to get ready for Admit Day. I took a quick shower, brushed my teeth and hair, scampered over to my clothes, whipped them on, and bolted to catch the shuttle which I nearly missed. My Mom wanted to sleep lol. Anyway, I get on the shuttle with this other family (which was good cuz the Dad tipped) and we drove for about 5 minutes until we arrived at Covel Commons at UCLA. I walked up the awkward steps, (those of you that have been to Covel…you guys know what I’m talking about lol) and I sat down on a nearby ledge. I was about half an hour early because I didn’t want to get lost or do anything stupid lol. </p>
<p>I’ll also note: I had never met Eva, so I was fairly nervous about the meet-up as well. We’ve been talking for months, and she knows basically everything about me, and it’s nerve-wracking to meet somebody for the first time that you’ve become trusting of and deeply respect. I texted her and I looked up to see a girl in a nice summer dress to be walking into Covel. I found out that it was her minutes later.</p>
<p>As I walked up the spiral staircase at Covel, I couldn’t help but feel a sense of pride, dignity, and an unmistakable excitement that I could possibly end up at UCLA. I looked around at the 3 floors and thought about you guys - about seeing some of you here for orientation or in the fall! I thought about evan and jane and paolo and all of you guys that are targeting UCLA. I took a moment to lean over the bannister and just reflect. I’m a spiritual kind of guy - I don’t like to take things for granted. It was just intense to be there. I don’t know; it felt exhilarating.</p>
<p>I met up with Eva and her Mom on the top floor where we spoke with a UCLA attendant and got our name tags. Mine had my name spelled wrong, but it’s all good! (For the record…it’s Nic…not Nick.) lol. Beneath my name were the words UCLA: Student Admit Day. I couldn’t help but feel like a student already! I wish I had saved my name tag, but perhaps I’ll receive another one at transfer orientation in the future :). </p>
<p>The 3 of us (Eva, her Mom, and I) walked into the auditorium where a speaker congratulated us on having been admitted ( not gonna lie…I felt fairly devious) and proceeded to talk about the various colleges, living parameters, and other general things. I sat there apprehensive, but I was happy and confident nonetheless. Then we were broken up into 2 groups: Humanities/Social Science & Life Sciences/Physical Sciences. For whatever reason, Psychology was being considered a Life Science, so I stayed in the room while Eva and her Mom went to the Humanities room in another building. Alas, I was alone.</p>
<p>From there speakers came up and answered questions about the various majors, and obviously I had to ask one…I’m a chatty kid lol. I just asked if it was common to double major/generally feasible. Apparently it’s not so hard to double major at UCLA…of course, I asked this as I was being perceived as a freshman and not a transfer applicant :p. </p>
<p>Afterward we were broken into smaller sub-groups of about 18 and sat down around 2 large tables. In my group, there were a couple kids from SF and Foster City (near where I live), so it was cool to see some people from my neck of the woods. Initially we did ice-breakers such as telling each other what we wanted to major in, our goals, what we want out of college, etc…You could say that I had a lot to bring up, and it was kind of nice to see the kids that had been admitted already; many of them have NO CLUE of what they want to do. I felt ahead of the curve, but then again…I’m not the one who was admitted! lol. I talked about how I “want” to major in Psych and how I want to make the most out of my college experience and learn from those around me. Overall, it was a neat experience…even if I was a temporary imposter! lol.</p>
<p>After that, I met back up with Eva and her Mom around 11:30 and our large admit day group (about half of us in all) jaunted over to De Neve where we ate lunch. For whatever reason, everyone was talking about how good the food is, but I’m not going to lie - Bay Area is 10x better. haha but then again, I was in a school cafeteria, and comparing the 2 is completely unfair. I wasn’t impressed with De Neve’s food though. </p>
<p>After that, Eva, her Mom, and I went on a grand tour of UCLA. My my my…wow. Okay so having only lived near Berkeley my whole life, and having never been to LA, you could say this was a major culture shock for me! The heat was killing me lol, the buildings were GORGEOUS…I mean newly renovated, perfectly sculpted, ideal-looking, with an almost Ivy-like architecture to them. I mean compared to Berkeley…nvm you can’t compare the buildings lol. I’ll give Sather Tower its due respect though! </p>
<p>Anyway, on the tour we “pet” Joe Bruin the adolescent bear lol, walked up and down lots of stairs, saw many different looking kids…but all similar in their breezy, laid back, shorts and tee look. Overall, the kids all looked very happy. It was nice to see! Everybody seemed to be in a group and enjoying themselves. I thought about what it would be like to have a group of friends here. I envisioned myself there, became a part of it, and I felt that electricity like I had at Berkeley. It was a different vibe! One that was engaging in a perfectly content, exciting sort of way.</p>
<p>We walked from Covel to the main area, to Royce, toured Powell library, and sprawled out on the grass on the hill near the football field. Our tourguide was amiable and very kind, and answered all of my questions…there were many lol. When we had concluded our campus tour, we then went on a housing tour.</p>
<p>The dorms were fairly small/cramped :/, but overall had a decent standard of living. Frankly, it may be a deal-breaker for someone else, but I don’t really care what my dorm looks like as long as it’s inhabitable. The guys on here know what I’m talkin about lol.</p>
<p>After that, our housing tourguides talked about E-40 (the rapper) and how he had played on campus last quarter. At this point, they asked, “How many of you know E-40??” I was the only one to raise my hand and laughed. I thought to myself…WOW I am far from the Yay Area hahaha.</p>
<p>Once our housing tour had ended, the 3 of us walked back to Royce where we proceeded to take a couple pictures (fb!) lol and then we said our goodbyes. It was sort of sad; I had really enjoyed getting to know Eva and exploring the campus with her and her mother. Although, there’s a decent chance I’ll be seeing more of them in the fall! </p>
<p>After they had left to go buy some swag, I sat beneath this tree on the grassy hill and just lay down and contemplated the experience. My friends had texted me asking about UCLA, so I responded and then just hung out for an hour before my shuttle was going to haul me away from the school I had become so attached to in a matter of 7 hours. The shade from the tree was great considering how hot it was, and I enjoyed just lying there and thinking. It was sort of meditative lol. I sat there for about an hour, and then when I had had my fill of UCLA, I returned to Covel where I was shuttled back to my hotel.</p>
<p>Overall, I loved the experience. UCLA is such a vibrant, cool place. It’s so well manicured, and the kids were all wonderfully nice. There was nothing I didn’t like about it…except that it has made my life 1000x more complicated lol. Now I’m torn between Berkeley and UCLA, and I am confused. I’m not going to assume that I get into or am rejected from both, but in the event that I have to select between the 2, it will be very difficult for me.</p>
<p>Either way, I hope to see many of you at UCLA or UCB in the fall as these are the only 2 schools that I’ve loved and felt “right” at. If you guys want to know anything else or have any questions, feel free to ask away! I hope I haven’t bored you guys to death with this lol and thanks for taking the time to read all of this if you did! lol alright time to submit!!</p>
<p>@slowmotionzx - HAHA, I know. Maybe it’ll be a relief… The first time in months our minds will be on something other than transferring.</p>
<p>Wow, thanks @emils. Do you prefer Berkeley dorms over UCLA’s? I don’t know, housing is a huge deal for me, hahaha. I’ve visited UCLA - everywhere but the dorms. Virtual tours can only do so much.</p>
<p>To be honest, although I’ve visited Berkeley many times now, and have taken campus tours, I’ve never seen the dorms. I’m primarily interested in the co-ops that are slightly off campus as I will be living in Cloyne co-op during the summer for summer school. </p>
<p>If I were to go to UCB, I would live in the co-ops in the fall if I like them, and will live in the Units if I don’t like the co-ops. However, I have never visited the units :(.</p>
<p>Overall, I would imagine Berkeley’s are slightly better. UCLA’s were pretty cramped…at least in the doubles/triples.</p>
<p>thats why you get your own place ;). Im getting an apartment in westwood so god help me. @emil thanks for the insight.
well goodnight cc’ers. im out.</p>