<p>Few freshman questions::</p>
<p>What is the driving time from LAX to Rieber for orientation?
Is there a website to rent books from? Which is the easiest work study job to get as a freshman.</p>
<p>Can you really finish school in 3 years at UCLA? Do teachers recommend you for internships too?? With less space in a triple Dysktra //falling sick easily can be a problem.</p>
<p>All I can say on my part is, Yes, living in UCLA gets you prone to sickness fairly easily. I remember living in a triple in Dykstra and I got sick, like badly sick, three times my first year. It was okay really though. As long as you had friends that gave you sick trays (food from the dining halls but your friends sent it to your bed), you get to decide if going to school was actually worth the long walk.</p>
<p>On a good day, it will probably take you 15-20 minutes from LAX to UCLA but with traffic anticipate about 40 minutes. I’m guessing it’s an early morning flight for orientation, in which case you should plan on about 40-45 minutes. </p>
<p>I can’t answer the middle two questions. But I can tell you that sickness goes rampant. If your floor gets sick, you will probably at some point get sick. If your roommate gets sick, good luck avoiding getting sick. I got sick about 4 times during fall and winter quarter combined. They all happened to be during finals or midterm weeks because my roommate would stress himself out and get sick and get all of us sick. I suggest buying chewable vit-c pills at Target or Walmart. I didn’t get sick at all spring quarter thanks to those bad boys.</p>
<p>work study is very competitive in general. all I can say is apply to a lot of places on the bulletin…they fill up quick.</p>
<p>At the same time keep in mind that your work study is subsidized by the gov so your employer is only paying 50% of the wage…so IMO DON’T settle for a 9.75 or minimum wage for work study (that means they are paying you 4.75…sweat shop style). the fact you have work study means you you should be getting higher than that…i say around 10.50 + is fair. If you’re lucky, you may even land one of the $12.00 ones. </p>
<p>finishing school in 3 years is definitely doable, but you will have to take summer school / more quarters with 4 classes.</p>
<p>hope that helps!</p>
<p>PS: enjoy Dykstra! its the most social hall so take advantage</p>
<p>You will NOT be able to get from LAX to Reiber in 15 mins unless it’s like 4am on a Sunday. I would say AT LEAST 40 minutes depending on day/time. Use googlemaps to estimate traffic times. </p>
<p>For renting books, google sites where you can rent them. I personally just buy from amazon/half.com and sell them back after the quarter ends. Do NOT buy from the bookstore unless it’s a course reader (which you can’t get anywhere else). </p>
<p>You can finish school in three years depending on a number of factors such as:
-how many requirements you have fulfilled (language, writing requirement, us history, etc.)
-any community college classes/aps that may count for classes
-your major (big factor: poli sci is way easier to finish in three than neuroscience) </p>
<p>Teachers can recommend you for internships but what’s way more common is for you to find internships you want, and ask teachers for reqs (and not all internships require them)</p>
<p>I lived in Dykstra for two years and never got super sick thankfully. It really just depends on you as a person. Personally, I think being a germophobe/always pumping hand sanitizer is a problem and makes people get sick faster. Also, make sure to wash your bedding regularly (people forget haha).</p>
<p>Also, I may just be reading gatos’s reply wrong but don’t think that if a job says $10/hour salary that you will be getting paid $5/hour (the source of the money, in the end, doesn’t really matter). What is says on the website is how much you get paid (and I have had w/s before).</p>
<p>But like gatos said, apply to a BUNCH of w/s jobs since everyone is trying to get them. I would say start winter quarter if you can so you can get used to school first in the fall. Good luck!</p>
<p>^ What gato means is that if you do a workstudy job for $10/hr, this means that your employer only actually pays you $5, while the government essentially subsidizes the other $5. You still get the $10, but your employer really does get away with technically not paying you that well.</p>