<p>Hahah, is Warren the only college with A/C in the dorms? All I know is that the heaters work really well…ahhaha</p>
<p>yeea Warren College lol</p>
<p>does erc have AC? that’d be chill. wait, haha do you guys say “chill” down south?</p>
<p>omg…marshall doesnt have a/c??</p>
<p>ERC does not have AC. It sounds really bad, but you’ll see when you get here that if anything you’ll use your heater more often than you would need AC. There were maybe a few days my ERC room got uncomfortably hot, the weather on the coast is really very nice.</p>
<p>-we do say “chill” colloquially here.
-ERC dorms DON’T have AC. It’s a huge pain but not too bad. Leave the window open and invest in a fan for sure.</p>
<p>Marshall Residence Halls do not have air conditioning. It’s not that bad; it’s survivable even without a fan.</p>
<p>^ agreed, though I do recommend investing in a fan, especially in a triple.</p>
<p>It doesn’t really have the ‘college town’ feel that a few of the other UCs have. It is obviously an excellent school academically, but a couple of the mid tier UCs seem to provide the better college experience.</p>
<p>^I think you took a wrong turn somewhere back there navigating these threads Cali Trumpet. :)</p>
<p>And to everybody else. DON’T WORRY ABOUT THE A/C AND HEATER, YOU’LL HARDLY EVER USE THEM!</p>
<p>so i just visited… and must say the architecture was not for me. does it grow on you?</p>
<p>and lol theories as to what the library is based on? I heard many, but my favorite (and i think the most plausible) is that it’s a hand holding up books. looked straight on from any side, there are 4 fingers and a thumb!</p>
<p>LOL the architecture. I don’t think it really grows on you. It’s more…you get used to it and it’s just like whatever.</p>
<p>Have you seen UCSB’s architecture? I compared the two and my mind was made up. (of course, there were other factors that went into the decision too :))</p>
<p>the architecture… its not that bad</p>
<p>ucsandiego915 i assume you went to ucsd? :P</p>
<p>I heard ucsd funnels a great deal of its money into the graduate program in order to boost its rankings–partly the reason it’s risen so fast in the ranks after only 50 yrs. So undergrads don’t get as much research opportunities/attention.</p>
<p>^The opposite is true. Because there are so many graduate programs and lots research money, it is all the more reason for undergraduate students to do research. I don’t know anybody in the sciences who has not researched at least once. Even then you can choose to do research off campus with the many biotech companies surrounding the area. On the other hand, because we are a university who cares so much about research, we tend to get professors who care more about research than teaching.</p>
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<p>Do you feel this from experience?</p>
<p>Not 100% but there is a correlation. My best professor at UCSD does no research at all and he spends all his time concentrating on improving/teaching ERC’s GE’s. Another good professor of mine divides his time between his biotech startup company and teaching. I can think of maybe 2 other professors I have had here who do research and teach very well and both are in the history department.</p>
<p>The rest of the professors I have had do seem to care more about research (mostly cognitive science department). Some are average/monotone in the lecture hall until they start pitching about their research projects in class or when you go to office hours. Those people tend to hold their research on a high pedestal and expect their students to be as interested and ask students to join their labs. Others you wouldn’t guess are amazing geniuses when they lecture until you look at their biographies (usually boring as heck in classes).</p>
<p>I have never really had a professor who never cared about his/her students. Some just seemed more preoccupied with publishing papers than teaching. I can PM you names of which professors fit which category if you’re interested.</p>
<p>^ that’s pretty much the standard for most professors. they became professors because they’re good researchers, not because they wanted to be great teachers. while the university salary does put food on their table, they can’t afford to run a research lab and fund graduate students/postdocs with those monies … hence, the focus on research over teaching. </p>
<p>there’s more of a focus on teaching at smaller liberal arts colleges … can’t have the best of both worlds. =/</p>
<p>@subtle_overlord</p>
<p>I’ll take your word for it. I haven’t had any professors that fit that description but I understand that they are inevitably out there. I just wanted to make sure that statement was from your experience and not just some generalization about the UCs that people tend to say a lot.</p>