<p>There's still an official trail/road (owned by UCSD) to Black's beach. Just walk across the street from the Muir dorms, go down a street for a couple of minutes, and there's the trail to the 'cliffs' and the road (with a locked gate - usually no cars at all) down to the beach. I suspect it's the same as when you were there.</p>
<p>thx for info..true, the beach road across from UCSD with the gate is the same, its just that what is around it has completely and irrevocably changed...
in the 70's none of the multi-million $ mansions and condos were there, you literally walked across the street from Muir (my dorm) and then could chose from a number of dirt trails to hike down the bluffs to the beach., or create your own trail, for th emore adventurous....or you could take the beach road w/ the gate. Now you have to go around the houses to get to the road to get to the beach road...its just not the same, but that's "progress"!</p>
<p>guess we're going to have to fight the traffic and check out UCLA's architecture, although I have been there before visiting a family friend in his freshman dorm, and the following year at his frat...I didn't see anything on those trips that impressed me, but by no means did I see the whole campus..have also been to football games there.(my ex was a UCLA alum)...so I'll have to take another look sometime soon. They also have marine bio major, I believe, so we really need to put it on the "reach" list</p>
<p>so any of you math types, is there a consensus here on anything?</p>
<p>UCR has mostly brick style matching buildings and lots of green stuff on campus, from the trees, grass, and bushes. It's far from "zero on all counts."</p>
<p>Out of the four campuses I've visited (UC Berkeley, UCLA, UCSD, UCI, UCSB), I felt that UCLA was the most beautiful, both in architecture, landscape and the urban surrounding. Royce Hall, Powell Library, Bunch Hall and the Law building are very elegant and well designed. </p>
<p>UC Berkeley is a close second; the old style buildings are beautiful, my favorite is the Doe Memorial Library. The atmosphere of the campus and the city of Berkeley enhances its appeal. </p>
<p>UC Santa Barbara was nice also, though I didn't like the surrounding area. UC San Diego has a good library, but the campus isn't that great. As for UCI...well, I live about two minutes away from the campus. Its sort of pleasant, but it gets old after like 5 minutes. The city of Irvine partially makes up for it, but the city itself is boring.</p>
<p>LOL, you guys... its a head to head of UCI and UCSD. both have similar architecture, nice high tech buildings.. extremely spacious.. great landscape. but hte thing is, UCI is in a rich neighbourhood, and looks good. UCSD has the landscape, but not the neighbourhood. UCSB doesnt have the on-campus looks and as this thread is looking for the most beautiful.. its not UCSB, and ive been to UCB, its not that either, by a long shot</p>
<p>HAHAHAHAHAAHAHA IRVINE IS BETTER THAN LA JOLLA?!</p>
<p>You're kidding me.</p>
<p>One visit and I knew UCI just sucks next to UCSD. It might not be bad to live in when I'm, what, 40? 50? 60? But nuh-uh, La Jolla beats Irvine's ass, no comparison.</p>
<p>Quote: "And no I am not going to UCSD, I turned them down along with SB for UCD. Why? UCD has football.
Go Ags!"</p>
<p>Are you planning on being the starting quarterback for UCD and eventually get drafted to the NFL or something? Wow I guess you do have big dreams.</p>
<p>I'm being repetitive with other posters but UCSD is between La Jolla and Del Mar and is just west of Rancho Santa Fe - all some of the wealthiest and most beautiful areas in the country.</p>
<p>well theyre neck and neck, keep in mind irvine is also right by newport beach, laguna beach etc.. and i dont really give a ****, even if i am going to uci. i dont need your stats from cnn... dont look so hard into this and get outside.</p>