<p>congrats, f00ls.</p>
<p>So how’s the housing situation? If I decide to go, I don’t want to dorm. What are University apartments like?</p>
<p>how was the adjustment from CC to UCLA academics?</p>
<p>how difficult will it be to get a single in the plazas? or a double for that matter? are you the math/econ major?</p>
<p>congrats on graduating from one of the best public schools in the world :D</p>
<p>housing - private / university-owned - is, in a word, expensive. landlords at a lot of places suck… if a deal is ‘too good to be true’, it probably is (viz. black mold; tiny quarters). i don’t know many people in the university apartments, but those who i’ve known who’ve lived there have complained about the strictness… noise / too many people over can be problematic. so, like, if you’re more on the social / extroverted end, you might want to vie for privately owned. that is, if you’re absolutely sure dorming isn’t for you –> i met the majority of my college homies (i’m from LA) in my dorm (rieber terrace) and would highly recommend it. then again, i had a double, which made things considerably more bearable.</p>
<p>what up pinkerr…are u still a phil major? I switched to historyy</p>
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<p>HARDER… way harder. not necessarily the workload – though it was definitely heavier, it wasn’t by any means unbearable – but the grading… example: in CC, i’d do everything (EVERYTHING) the night before… my major is philosophy, so midterms and finals typically take the form of papers. whereas in CC i’d spend 4 - 8 hours on a given paper, not having done any / most of the reading before hand, at UCLA, an A or A- paper will take me, on average, ~20 hours of solid work. and that’s after attending class regularly, paying attention, taking notes and being only slightly behind on reading. as for other majors, i’ve taken a few history classes (jokes), an urban studies class (joke) and the theatre 120 series (TOTAL jokes). my advice, if you want to have a social life and be involved otherwise on campus, is not to be overly ambitious about your studies = one filler class (easy A) per quarter, if you can manage it, is a god send.</p>
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<p>singles are hard to get, from what i know. i managed to get a double because there happened to be an opening on my floor… </p>
<p>i dealt with the housing bureaucracy pretty ardently during my first fall quarter after being placed in a tripple with a snoring / sleep apneatic beast for 6 weeks. i couldn’t sleep… was going (quite literally) crazy… they had no sympathy… told me that it would be discriminatory to demand that he be transfered out of the room. they tried to persuade me to suck it up, but eventually granted me a transfer. after preparing my transfer into another tripple on a different floor in the same building, they told me that once the transfer was complete, i would be stuck in that room – that would be regardless of any future problems / conflicts / whatever… luckily, i talked to an acquaintance down the hall whose roommate had just mysteriously moved out and i was able to take dudes spot after getting the OK from the RD. </p>
<p>tl;dr; it’s hard to get what you want. try, because it’s all you can do and it might work out, but don’t be heartbroken when you don’t get your way.</p>
<p>LOL good story. although pretty unfortunate for me. thanks floyd!</p>
<p>@eshug</p>
<p>yeah, still phil. not as excited about the material as i was before getting here, but it’s certainly served a purpose… i’m studying for the LSAT right now, practice-testing higher than i dreamed i would. that’s got to be owed, at least in part, to the hours upon hours spent over the past two years on the densest, most pedantic **** ever. </p>
<p>plans after graduation?</p>
<p>Can you please convince me to go to UCLA instead of Cal or Cal Poly SLO?
I would appreciate it very much, thank you. :)</p>
<p>yeah i didnt love some of the phil classes I was in, but it definitely prepares you much better for the LSAT better than history. I am still unsure, the one thing that history has given me is a really competitive GPA for grad schools. But thats about all it has given me. I am going to take the LSAT in the fall and possibly the GRE to keep my options open. Law school is going to be brutal though from what I’ve heard 
haha Congrats on almost graduating thoughh man</p>
<p>Have you taken Kaplan Phil of Language? That class was unlike any philosophy class ive ever been in.</p>
<p>hi i just got in as a phil major and was wondering is it hard to switch into history? And what do you mean that the history classes were easy? Did you take upperd or lowerd?</p>
<p>I was also wondering about change of major at UCLA. I got in as a ‘Linguistics’ major but I would like to switch to ‘Linguistics & English’ (a non-impacted major). The problem is, I’m missing some prereqs. Is it still possible to switch majors at orientation, if you don’t have all the prereqs?</p>
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<li>the weather (+ beach)</li>
<li>the women </li>
<li>if you’re a prestige whore, take solace in the fact that UCLA is branded JUST as well as, if not better than Cal outside of California. </li>
<li>the weather ----- seriously… can’t stress this enough. it just puts you in a great mood. all the time. </li>
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<p>if you need more than that, you’re better off at Cal.
if you’re considering Cal Poly over Cal or UCLA, you should get your head examined.</p>
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<p>yeah… 127a - by far the hardest class i’ve ever taken. ever. pulled an A- somehow. nearly shat myself.</p>
<p>hah! Thanks. I was going to ask you about the women, too. I thought that I was going to have to go to Cal Poly, just because it’s cheaper, then UCLA knocked me on my ass with the most awesome financial aid package EVER! Plus, I freaking love the idea of having Cal Poly’s hills nearby (I hike a lot), along with their kickass beaches, but I guess UCLA’s got some nice stuff around, too. What kind of nature/outdoorsy activities are around there?</p>
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<p>upper. they’re just easy. memorize what happened –> regurgitate onto a bluebook. the two professors i’ve taken have given study guides that give the whole test away. the analysis part is negligible, if present at all on the tests i’ve taken. </p>
<p>honestly, if i could do it all over again – knowing that i want to go to law school – i’d have done the history major (or maybe even WAC) with an education minor. with the effort i’ve put into philosophy for my ~3.6 major GPA, i don’t hesitate for a moment to think that i’d be at a 3.8 at least… </p>
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<p>TRY TO GET INTO THE EDUCATION MINOR!</p>
<p>easiest classes EVER.</p>
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<p>you’ll be living in southern california, man. anything you can do anywhere else, you can do here. i mean that. anything.</p>
<p>ahaha education minor–classes with Barbee ftw</p>