Moving your entire life to UCLA?

Transfer Students UC Transfers
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<p>September is going to be crazy!
When I first applied to UCLA, I was going to commute. Now I'm going to live in Hedrick Summit.
I was going to keep my current job, which is obviously off campus.
I start my on campus job this Thursday.
It looks like UCLA went from being just a school to the center of my life. It'll probably take some adjusting, but this should be fun.</p>

<p>Anyone else think they were only going to be attending school at UCLA, only to realize that they're going to breathing it 24-7?</p>

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<p>My original plan was just to attend UCLA, but as the date gets closer and closer I’m sure I’m going to be spending a lot more time on campus than anticipated. Since I’ll be commuting, I decided that I’d be better off getting a job on campus so that I could limit the car/bus trips and make some friends outside of class. I also thought it would be good to actually know what my school looks like, since I hadn’t even seen the entirety of my community college until last month. I don’t plan on living on campus for right now, but I’m not ruling out the possibility of becoming an RA in my senior if I don’t study abroad.</p>

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<p>@thinkgolden: hey is that a work study job? If it is, are we allowed to get those already? Thanks!</p>

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<p>Throw yourself into school 100%! It’s just a few years. Throw yourself in 100%.</p>

<p>That’s what I did. I joined a fraternity, lived in Hedrick Summit, etc.</p>

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<p>No, I declined work study. In most cases, I think you’ll end up making more if you just take the rate they pay you. I don’t think it’s too early to get a work study job though, on my application it asked whether I was doing work study or not. The entire process from submitting my application to getting hired took about 72 hours.</p>

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<p>It looks like that’s what I’ll be doing. No fraternity though, I have enough on my plate with ROTC.</p>

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<p>Wait, how do we get on campus jobs without work study? Did you do it on BruinWalk??</p>

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<p>Most departments that are hiring have applications available online. I didn’t use BruinWalk, I thought that was for viewing ratings on professors.</p>

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<p>@thinkgolden: Thank you! Do you mind me asking which department did you apply to or what website you used? I keep trying to find something on the ucla website but haven’t been successful yet :/</p>

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<p>bump for matchcuttos question</p>

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<p>@DCSPORTSFAN: I apologize. I always forget that I’m the only transfer student worried about relocating to Westwood and finding a job to pay for college.</p>

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<p>@matchcutto</p>

<p>Maybe I’m missing something, but didn’t DCSPORTSFAN just second the request for an answer to the question you asked? “Bump” means making a needless post in order to put a thread back on top, getting it more attention in hopes of getting a response.</p>

<p>But maybe I really am missing something. :-)</p>

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<p>Ah. We should have a list of term or something. Sorry DCSPORTSFAN and thank you nick_scheu… someone else had said it meant take the thread off. </p>

<p>But yeah, it would be good to know.</p>

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<p>Here are two sites:</p>

<p>[ORL</a> Employment and Leadership Opportunities](<a href=“http://www.orl.ucla.edu/employment/]ORL”>Employment Opportunities | Residential Life)
[Bruin</a> OnLine Jobs](<a href=“http://www.bol.ucla.edu/jobs/]Bruin”>http://www.bol.ucla.edu/jobs/)</p>

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<p>Thank you! Thank you!</p>

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<p>total misunderstanding man, i wanted the answer to your question</p>

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<p>@DCSPORTSFAN: Yes, that took me a while, sorry. </p>

<p>Other departments that are hiring: UCLA PD and the Library.</p>

<p>P.S. The library won’t take apps until Sept 6th.</p>

<p>Getting a job on campus would be so much easier. I want to stay in Westwood most of my time instead of commuting. Specially with Wilshire traffic :(</p>