<p>i am going to be a senior in high school and UCLA is in my top 4 choices. tell me about UCLA. it sounds like the perfect college : located in westwood, great looking women, stellar academics, great food?, sports, etc. is there anything bad about ucla?</p>
<p>All the "great looking women" are out of your league.</p>
<p>yeah i know, i am above their league.</p>
<p>lol.</p>
<p>there's nothing really too bad about ucla. the positives definitely outweigh the negatives by far.</p>
<p>the reason why i chose it was because i imagined it to be the perfect, well-balanced college and it was as good as i thought it was. perhaps even better.</p>
<p>and yeah that's pretty vague but i'm at work so i don't feel like thinking too much.</p>
<p>The bad part is NOT BEING ABLE TO SIGN UP FOR CLASSES!@#!%#$@^%</p>
<p>Good thinking 3365.</p>
<p>oh man really? that sucks.</p>
<p>it's a great well-balanced university in an excellent location; the only downsides really come with it being a bureaucratic, large, state university... these problems are expected! otherwise, i made the right choice by attending this school...</p>
<p>yah too many students...</p>
<p>food isnt as great as people make it seem, it gets old after a quarter</p>
<p>I'm happy overall. looking back I would have lived in a different dorm my freshmen year though. i also don't like the bureaucracy which can lead to unfairness. that's just the bad stuff. almost everything else is good</p>
<p>^ yah, now you're an RA... you have power!!! hehe.</p>
<p>too many people, and too many people in my major. so many choices out there it's hard to be aware of everything. signing up for classes used to be annoying, but now i have senior standing so it's all good... and i'm no longer a pre-major... i'm officially a psych major! so signing up for classes will be a lot better from now on. but the first two years are annoying unless you have priority (and sometimes even then).</p>
<p>dorms are kind of annoying, but i was glad to have them and equally glad to be out of them now. food does get old. puzzles ice cream is amazing. get premiere so you can at least make the dorm food work to your advantage. hills and stairs are my nemesis, i would have liked a flatter campus, but any other school that's flatter isn't UCLA. also i'm out of state so i hate how far it is from home (and even when i lived in norcal it was kinda far). </p>
<p>but then again, it's in LA, the only part of CA not on fire apparently... :rolleyes:</p>
<p>The lines and the overcrowded dining halls, especially Covel.</p>
<p>The lines at B-caf suck immensely at nighttime too. I think one time it was almost all the way to puzzles. -__-</p>
<p>food might get old but its a helluva lot better than schools ive been to :rolleyes: its dorm food - what are we supposed to expect anyway -_- </p>
<p>love hills and stairs. strathmore is great. my lover; also, bwalk.</p>
<p>school has great sense of community/spirit since we have great sports yea...</p>
<p>The professors. This isn't an ailment unique only to UCLA however... but some of the professors are just plain bad. You'd think that professors at one of the top universities in UCLA would know how to speak English... at the very least. But you'll soon find that its not always the case.
There are some awesome professors here too, and many OK ones. But its the bad ones you seem to remember most.
Its also a big place with a lot of people, and thats something that comes with its own advantages and disadvantages. Advantages are that its big and there are a lot of people so you have a lot to do and many people to meet. Seriously, the possibilities are endless. OTOH, this place is big and you won't get a lot of individual attention handed to you (you'll have to ask for it) and you will come in contact with a lot of different types of people, which some people don't easily cope with.</p>
<p>oh and sometimes I feel that many people here are quite shallow and materialistic. Typical Californians. But thats not too bad of a thing.</p>
<p>Woah, woah, woah - "typical Californians"??? I beg to differ. Although as a NorCal kid, I'll say it's more common in SoCal, land of the beach and Tinseltown. ;)</p>
<p>i love love love ucla! make something of your time here. there's so much to do!</p>
<p>There aren't "typical Californians" or typical anythings... there are just douchy people. And those are all over the world. Learn to spot them and avoid them.</p>
<p>so i heard parking is impossible true?</p>
<p>true.</p>
<p>if you're a freshman you won't have a car. get over it now.</p>