<p>I found this in the CC forum for UCLA - posted by UCLAri.</p>
<p>I'm not sure if all (or most) of you have seen this already, so I wanted to post it here as well.</p>
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<li>UCLA offers a nearly unbeatable balance between athletics and academics.</li>
<li>Santa Monica is 15 minutes away.</li>
<li>Bruins eat Trojans (okay, one exception to the negativity. I call modtatorship on this!)</li>
<li>Campouts in front of Pauley Pavillion</li>
<li>Being able to tell your kids that you ACTUALLY had to walk uphill to and from school when you were at UCLA</li>
<li>PUZZLES CURLY FRIES IN BOWL OF CHILI WITH A SIDE OF CURLY FRIES WITH CHEESE ON TOP... and a lowfat smoothie.</li>
<li>Royce Hall</li>
<li>Going with friends to see a movie premier in Westwood and saying, "Dude, Keanu Reeves looks like a wuss!"</li>
<li>Finally becoming old enough to go to Maloney's</li>
<li>SQUIRRELS!!!!!! OMGCUTE!</li>
<li>Diddy Riese!</li>
<li>Sneaking into the tunnels under the campus...and not getting caught.</li>
<li>Musuems in LA.</li>
<li>Concert scene in LA.</li>
<li>Campus food is pretty solid.</li>
<li>Weather.</li>
<li>Daily Bruin- solid paper.</li>
<li>In-N-Out Burger</li>
<li>One of the top Hospitals on campus!</li>
<li>BRUINWALK</li>
<li>Political people stop by on a semi-regular basis.</li>
<li>Offers Chinese for beginners and fluent speakers.</li>
<li>Tommy's Original World Famous Hamburgers are just a short jaunt away.</li>
<li>All-Hill Halloween</li>
<li>When you already are where everyone else wants to be, what's not to like?</li>
<li>You might see <fill in="" your="" favorite="" celebrity=""> at the grocery store.</fill></li>
<li>Sometimes they hire college kids as extras for movies!</li>
<li>In-n-Out Burger (so important it has to be listed twice)</li>
<li>Pinkberry</li>
<li>Wooden Center</li>
<li>8-clap</li>
<li>Naps outside Jann's steps</li>
<li>Jobs. Jobs jobs jobs jobs jobs.</li>
<li>Free sneak movies</li>
<li>Cool speakers on campus/in class</li>
<li>Kevin Smith apparently teaches a class here. Seriously.</li>
<li>Spring Sing? (Ok, I haven't gone. Yet. But it sounds really fun. )</li>
<li>Raspberry/banana ice cream</li>
<li>Kettle corn outside Ackerman
40 KOSHER FOOD at Bruin Cafe!</li>
<li>All my really cool friends go to UCLA</li>
<li>It costs a quarter to go on the local buses.</li>
<li>Bunche Hall</li>
<li>The Physics and Astronomy Building</li>
<li>Girls are hot</li>
<li>Torta Ahogada @ Rendezvous</li>
<li>$2 movies</li>
<li>The GE Clusters system</li>
<li>Late night runs to Crossroads</li>
<li>Bruin Bear outside Ackerman</li>
<li>The people here.</li>
<li>The Unicycle Man!</li>
<li>The ninja/student who does flips outside the parking lot near the IM fields and sometimes near Ackerman</li>
<li>Kerchoff jazz nights and free campus concerts in general</li>
<li>SEAS Cafe...for those of you who don't know, you might never know</li>
<li>99 NCAA titles</li>
<li>Tuition for In-State Students</li>
<li>Facebook Friends Forever</li>
<li>It's been in countless films</li>
<li>Inverted Fountain</li>
<li>Students in Bearwear (sweaters) in all weather conditions</li>
<li>Romanesque architecture</li>
<li>UCLA's sculpture garden</li>
<li>You're surrounded by lots of very smart people. You can't help but study to keep up - and that's cool!</li>
<li>$2 boba milk tea drinks outside Ackerman (sold by the Chinese Culture Night People!)</li>
<li>The chance to go to UCLA Orientation and see Cabaret!</li>
<li>The black man on Bruin Walk...trying to get you to donate while shaking your hand for over 5 seconds.</li>
<li>Fowler Out Loud! Free concerts that are REALLY great with free refreshments!</li>
<li>The ability to watch the "Ivy League" series on AZN TV...and laugh at the stress we all once had to go through. [dunno if this is UCLA-specific...Ari?]</li>
<li>Chinese/Japanese/Korean/Taiwanese/Vietnamese Culture Night</li>
<li>Did someone say Westwood yet?</li>
<li>Quarter System</li>
<li>The cool celebrities who take Charles Young Drive when Sunset Blvd gets jammed</li>
<li>RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES!!!!!! (SRP, URFP, etcetc.)</li>
<li>The awesome shower heads that we have. Having it set on a pulsating massage setting is like having a little piece of nirvana...in your shower.</li>
<li>The hourly bells...even if there really isn't a hunchback man waiting to ring them every hour.</li>
<li>I found out one of my professors loves youtube. lol</li>
<li>My friend said that her professor who is in her 50's looks hotter then her. The reasons she gave are her professor has nicer racks and abs than her ROFLMAO</li>
<li>The people who commute 2 hrs daily to serve you lattes, swipe your bruincard, clean your bathrooms, etc. Give them some notice instead of telling them to "hurry the f up"</li>
<li>Reduced fees to attend performances at Royce</li>
<li>The X-Cape arcade.</li>
<li>Calpirg</li>
<li>22 hours of silence during finals</li>
<li>Finals on a Saturday or Sunday</li>
<li>Hibernating Bruin Bear outside Ackerman</li>
<li>Beating USC</li>
<li>The Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf (Gayley & Weyburn, Westwood & Weyburn).</li>
<li>Amazingly enough there's great food at the hospital cafeteria. Best hours to go are between 6-7:30 PM.</li>
<li>Seminars (If you know which ones to go to, there' really good catered food).</li>
<li>Libraries that hardly anyone uses. These are great especially during midterms and finals.</li>
<li>The journals UCLA subcribes to...you can find just about any article or book.</li>
<li>Graduate courses open to undergrads.</li>
<li>The shuttle system.</li>
<li>Wooden Center.</li>
<li>Mildred Mathias Botanical Gardens.</li>
<li>The helipad on top of the CHS hospital.</li>
<li>View from the Factor Building (that's Catalina Island in the background).</li>
<li>Movie previews at Melnitz.</li>
<li>Because going anywhere else wouldn't be as fulfilling.</li>
<li>Because it's UCLA. Isn't that a good enough reason.</li>
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K?</p>