UCSD- Sixth College

flutefreak23
Fri, 25 Mar 2011 20:26:01 +0000

I’m currently a first year at Sixth college, and I live in the reshalls. Personally, I love Sixth College.

The reshalls are not bad. Pretty much each building consists of two floors. Each floor is a different gender depending on the RA of each building. My RA is a girl, so the bottom floor is for girls and the top floor is for boys. There are two suites on each floor, and five bedrooms surrounding each suite’s common room. Each floor has its own bathroom: 4 showers, 4 sinks, and 3 bathroom stalls. Dont worry. Everyone has different schedules, so 4 showers for 24 people is perfectly okay. The top floor has a study room, and the bottom room has a kitchen; everyone in the building has access to the study room and kitchen. The study room is a nice place to get away from your desk and study, but beware! a lot of people like to use the study room, so there may be people socializing. The kitchen is also a nice, quiet place to study. The kitchen only has a sink, microwave, toaster, and tables. A majority of the rooms in each suite are triples. Sometimes there is on double or one single per suite; it depends on the building. The walls are thin, so you can hear what is going on in the common room.

I think your living experience also depends a lot on your roommates/ suitemates. We are all best friends in our suite, so that’s why I am having a blast in the reshalls. I live in a triple, and my two roommates are so nice. I don’t feel crowded with my two other roommates, and once I settled in, the room was a lot bigger than I expected it to be. We each have a bed, desk, and closet. They are definitely bigger than Warren’s reshalls.

The definite perk about living in a residential hall is meeting a lot of people. I know people living in the apartments, and they started out only knowing their apartment roommates since the apartments are meant for second years. By the end of fall quarter, you know everyone in your building and its easy to make friends because everyone is in the same boat as you. The worst part of living in camp snoopy is that it is so far from the foodworx and other dining places.

At first I felt like you guys thinking greaatt… i’m at sixth, but after winning unolympics, I had a new respect for sixth college. The college is young, and there is nothing bad about it. The GE requirements aren’t that bad. One year of CAT is a lot better than 2 years of MMW at ERC or humanities series at revelle.

CAT is the writing program at sixth, and I’m not going to lie, it’s boring. The theme of culture, art, and technology won’t hurt your major or anything. It’s just a theme to base your writing around. When signing up for CAT 1, I would go to the cat webpage, and research which CAT 1 class sounds the most interesting because the theme of the class is crucial, or else you’re stuck learning about a topic for 10 weeks that is completely boring. Another class first year sixth students have to take is CSE 3. That class is a joke. Pretty much you play with a program that makes virtual worlds. Just do the reading, and you’ll be fine.

Other than that, Sixth College is great! Make the most out of your first year because this will be the one year where you’ll be living with a bunch of people around the same age as you.