<p>Hi everyone! </p>
<p>I know that UCSB has the reputation of being a party school, and I was wondering if it is true? If so, has it affected your ability to excel in school? If it is not true, what is the typical lifestyle that people have at UCSB? </p>
<p>There are a lot of threads on this. The consensus seems to be that if you don’t go looking for a party, it won’t come looking for you, and you choose whether, and how much you party. There are a lot of activities and people who do and don’t want to party, or only want to, sometimes. There is an excursion club with activities from paint ball to sky diving, free movie screenings, and many other activities. There are some who don’t manage their time well, but people who want to find a balance, do. People do excel at the school, after all, clearly. I don’t think there is any one typical lifestyle, there are simply too many options.</p>
<p>That being said, students party at most colleges, and UCSB students are friendly and social. Parties exist.</p>
<p>If your user name is anything like your major, though, UCSB is the place for you. <a href=“NRC Rankings Overview: Physics”>http://chronicle.com/article/NRC-Rankings-Overview-Physics/124754/</a></p>
<p>click on the ‘s rank high’ table heading to line them up by rank rather than alphabetically. I read some of the undergraduate course offerings for physics there and I wanted a do over for myself.</p>
<p>Hm. They seem to be having a department tea tomorrow, and say that ‘all are welcome’. Perhaps you should drop in: <a href=“http://www.physics.ucsb.edu/”>Department of Physics - UC Santa Barbara;
<p>more stuff <a href=“Research | Department of Physics - UC Santa Barbara”>Research | Department of Physics - UC Santa Barbara;
<p>By the way, when my niece went there she said she didn’t get into the party stuff and mostly only saw it in her role as an EMT, and said it was mostly outsiders at the two big events of the year (she went to medical school afterwards, and is graduating this year, going back east for her residency to a hospital associated with an Ivy.) She said she and her friends had bbq on the beach, went downtown, and had their own smaller gatherings. She was very busy and never felt deprived of social life, there was more than she could take on. She was also on one of their sports teams her first couple of years, before she went to Africa the first time on one of her medical undergrad internships.</p>
<p>More physics stuff… <a href=“Supersymmetry Found In Nature? | Science 2.0”>Supersymmetry Found In Nature? | Science 2.0;
<p>and more: <a href=“Researchers develop ErSb nanostructures with applications in infrared and terahertz ranges”>http://phys.org/news/2014-04-ersb-nanostructures-applications-infrared-terahertz.html</a></p>
<p>Those two articles are within days of each other. but then, I expect you can work google news search ‘by date’ yourself…</p>
<p>…um… and notice in the second one the mention of ‘an undergraduate participant in the study’… <em>cough</em></p>