<p>1.) what are the classes like? hard? fairly easy? interesting? lectures? small, discussion-based? etc.</p>
<p>You are probably not going to like this answer but it really depends on your major. As an incoming freshman you’ll be having to take a lot of lower division courses before you dive into what you really want to do, and at ALL universities this general educations will probably be huge, because everyone NEEDS to take them. But major specific: I’m an English major and it is definitely a perk to be at Davis. My biggest class has 56 people in it and we don’t even need separate discussions because the lectures are pretty intimate as they are. As far as grading: I transferred here from a Community College, and so far I find the grading to be pretty fair. I got a lower grade than I expected on my first paper but really it’s more of adjusting to what the professor wants, and most of your professors will understand this. My suite-mate is pre-med and is taking all sorts of insane crazy classes and on her midterms she didn’t score anything lower than an 89 (and she’s going to dispute this she things she got something right after all) and she said she has found the office hours and TAs amazing. </p>
<p>2.) i want to be a movie editor/producer/filmmaker. i know brown is not well-known for film. i am applying to schools known for film (usc, chapman, nyu, etc) but i like uc davis as a school anyway. if i were to go to uc davis instead of a film-centric school, would i pretty much kiss my chances of being a filmmaker goodbye?</p>
<p>I don’t know much about film but I do know that you can come to Davis complete all your lower requirements and if you don’t find that they have the sort of department you want you can always very easily transfer to another UC. Transferring within UCs (and community college to UC or to CSU) is a lot easier than transferring from outside of the system so keep this in mind. But as far as transferring to NYU or USC I have no idea what that would entail. Also you might change your mind once you are here, and mold your major into something that is provided here. </p>
<p>3.) i’m a bi guy, and i know uc davis is gay-friendly, but are there plenty of bi guys/girls too? i want to make sure i fit in and everything. also, i generally get along better friend-wise with straight or bi guys than gay guys. i do have gay friends though, but i want to be able to have all different kinds of friends, gay, straight, bi. are all orientations well-represented at davis?</p>
<p>I know they do a lot of LGBT events on campus just because that club seems to be pretty popular and successful (they are doing a huge arts and crafts thing in the quad I think this week), but I really wouldn’t know about the specifics of the sexual preferences of most students. I will say that on average it is extremely easy to make friends here, and I have found everyone to be really open-minded and amicable. I don’t at all get the feeling of “cliques” and everyone just lives and lets live. </p>
<p>4.) does it get boring at davis? i hear that the neighboring city doesn’t offer much and that it can boring. true? false?</p>
<p>Davis will be as boring as you are. A big bag of fun isn’t going to knock on your door Friday night, tie you up and take you out where the festivities are. I’m from Los Angeles and yes of course there isn’t as much chaos going on here than there is down south, but I find things to do nonetheless. A lot of times this will require you having a car, most people I know are always in Sacramento or San Francisco on weekends (I don’t know when the hell they study) or there always seem to be Fraternity parties going on as well. If you are the kind of person that is going to need to be at a party constantly then perhaps Davis is not for you, but everything is about finding balance. I am quick to discredit the notions however that, “There is nothing to do in Davis,” there is just “not as much to do in Davis” ;).</p>
<p>5.) what do people generally do for fun at davis? i’m interested in joining a lot of student clubs. but i don’t like drinking or doing drugs. are clubs big ways of socializing? how prevalent is drinking/drugs?</p>
<p>I live in the transfer dorms and so everyone mere mostly is of age to drink but I have not run into any drunken bafoons as of yet. Everyone pretty much goes to parties if they really want to get drunk, and in my experience it is mostly limited to the weekends. I did study at someones apartment though the other night and in the middle of it all his suite mates decided to take a two hour break with some beer, but as a freshman you really shouldn’t have beer in the dorms anyways. I have not run into any drugs at all really, and maybe I am naive but it’s not really a huge aspect of life here at Davis. For fun it really depends on the person. There are a lot of clubs/frats/sororities though and I’m sure it’d be easy to keep yourself busy if you get involved in enough of those.</p>
<p>6.) i don’t really…ride bikes. i mean, i might like to but i haven’t ridden in years. 
would i be totally out of place walking around at davis?</p>
<p>There is a very clean, very efficient, very easy, very FREE bus system to students in Davis that will pick you up just about anywhere and drop you off at two locations in the heart of campus. So if you are a walker and don’t want to buy a bike you won’t find yourself alone (especially on rainy days ick) because a lot of people do ride the bus. I just bought a bike two weeks ago, and I had not ridden since I was like 10. That being said I am totally in love with it. It’s so much fun to bike through the campus because it really is extremely beautiful, it’s green and covered in immense trees, just watch out for the thousands of squirrels!</p>
would i be totally out of place walking around at davis?</p>
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