<li>Their mascot is a banana slug</li>
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<p>Your turn, keep going until we reach 100.</p>
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<li>The campus is absolutely breathtaking.</li>
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<li>The residential college system.</li>
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<li>It’s one of the fittest campuses in the nation.</li>
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<li>Only UC that has a contract with NASA</li>
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<p>hope it’s okay that I’m posting more than once.</p>
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<li>California beaches</li>
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<p>Sure it’s alright, Skad.</p>
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<li><p>Offers unique programs such as Community Studies (undergrad) and History of Consciousness (graduate)</p></li>
<li><p>Gives narrative evaluations for every class in addition to a letter grade</p></li>
<li><p>Allows students to take up to 25% of their total classes as “Pass/No Pass” instead of a letter grade, which does not affect your GPA (even if you receive a No Pass)</p></li>
<li><p>Houses the Grateful Dead Archive</p></li>
<li><p>Has nationally renowned departments such as the Linguistics dept. and Astronomy dept.</p></li>
<li><p>Faculty members are relatively easy to access</p></li>
<li><p>Good weather</p></li>
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<li>The campus is surrounded by redwood trees</li>
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<li><p>When you walk to class in the morning, you get to see deer just hanging out.</p></li>
<li><p>Great on and off campus bus system.</p></li>
<li><p>Good weed.</p></li>
<li><p>Pink Umbrella Man (google him)</p></li>
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<li><p>home of the human genome project and browser (this is a huge deal in science fields)</p></li>
<li><p>Angela Davis and Tom Lehrer are former faculty</p></li>
<li><p>Andy Samburg (and like 3 other SNL guys), Miranda July, and Joe Palca (NPR) are alumni</p></li>
<li><p>[url=<a href=“http://fishraplive.com/]Student”>http://fishraplive.com/]Student</a> humor paper “Fish Rap Live”<a href=“there’s%20even%20a%20book%20about%20it%20with%20an%20intro%20by%20Ben%20Stein”>/url</a></p></li>
<li><p>mix of small class, liberal arts feel with major research opportunities</p></li>
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<li> Tree Nine. Climb it at night…it’s amazing</li>
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<li><p>First Rain (massive naked run during the first rain day of the year)</p></li>
<li><p>4/20 at Porter Meadow</p></li>
<li><p>Allows students to create their own major via the “Individual Major” program</p></li>
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<li>Liberals. :)</li>
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<li>No universal foreign language requirement</li>
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<p>(it’s a big personal plus)</p>
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<li><p>From the campus you get views of all of Monterey Bay</p></li>
<li><p>Student activism abounds</p></li>
<li><p>Overall sense of banana slug pride and school spirit</p></li>
<li><p>UCSC Banana Slugs shirt featured in Pulp Fiction, enough said.</p></li>
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<p>(off topic but to the person who said community studies is offered… there is a chance the program will be cut…)</p>
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<li>We still have protests (and riot and SWAT police because of this… last year anyway).</li>
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<p>actually there was a student walk out against budget cuts today. just in case anyone was wondering…</p>
<p>“34. We still have protests (and riot and SWAT police because of this… last year anyway).”</p>
<p>What a phenomenal + for the university!</p>
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<li><p>The food is reportedly some of the best in the UC system</p></li>
<li><p>Rides on the SC Metro are free for UCSC students</p></li>
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<p>(barnaby: rides are not free, quarterly pass fare is included in your student fees)
(if anyone had questions about community studies’ current situation, PM me, I’m a CMMU major)</p>
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<li><p>only an hour’s drive from San Francisco!</p></li>
<li><p>Long Marine Lab</p></li>
<li><p>We have an elephant seal named after Stephen Colbert at the marine lab :)</p></li>
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