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<p>@LAforlife</p>

<p>“Do you know if UCLA will guarantee housing to transfers for two years anytime soon. I’ve heard rumors about it. Also, how likely is it for someone to get the housing the prefer?”</p>

<p>Just about everyone I know got the type of housing they preferred. Though that’s not to say that those who requested singles or doubles didn’t end up in tripples… Housing is fine at UCLA no matter where you are… And they just put up new buildings at De Neve that look amazing. I hear those might turn into transfer dorms… </p>

<p>About guaranteed housing for two years… you won’t want to live on campus for your second year. I promise. You and the friends you’ll make will absolutely vie for an apartment in Westhood. You’ll have more room, more freedom and it’ll be slightly cheaper (but still absurdly expensive). I managed to find my own room for ~$800 in a fantastic apartment senior year. It was a find, but finds are around.</p>

<p>Now, because I wrote it out the other day for something else, I’m going to offer you my story about housing:</p>

<p>Never having lived in dorms before, I was apprehensive in all the familiar ways. I spent some good time preparing to deal with the various clashes of opinion, neurosis and idiosyncrasy one expects from prolonged close-quarters with a stranger… but nothing prepared me for what I got:</p>

<ul>
<li><p>TERRIBLE social anxiety (awkward as **** all. the’****ing. time.) coupled with a pedant’s disposition. The most intolerable human being I’ve ever met.</p></li>
<li><p>A permanent stench that can only be derived from the netherregions of a 5-foot-nothing, 250 pound, self-righteous slob.</p></li>
<li><p>Very, VERY loud snoring that kept me up nights for 2 FULL MONTHS. I wore ear plugs. They did nothing. But the worst part of my situation was that in addition to snoring of the sort that’s surely prevented him from ever successfully bedding a woman, dude had/has the worst ing case of sleep apnea. So, after 15 minutes of perpetual, loud-ass snoring, the room would suddenly go silent as he’d literally be choking on his own tongue. 15 minute stretch after 15 minute stretch, night after night, I’d latch anxiously onto that silence, hoping each time that it signaled of the end of my unwarranted torture. And then, about 30 or 40 seconds in, just as I’d begin to loosen my grip on the balls of sheets by then gathered in my fists, he’d erupt with the loudest, most disgusting, terrible loogie-hocking sound – it was like he was yelling at me from the bottom of his throat. I think I may have actually cried once.</p></li>
<li><p>I frantically brought this to his attention NUMEROUS times. There are doctors he could have seen and measures he could have taken to fix things. Instead, talking to me as if I were an infant, he told me a) that he thought I was exaggerating; b) that I “should be able to handle a little snoring”; and c) after two persistent weeks of me demanding that he do something-- that doctors / surgery / this machine were too expensive, even if covered by insurance.</p></li>
<li><p>
that guy. Seriously, **** that guy. 2 months averaging little to no sleep a night WILL MESS WITH YOU IN MORE WAYS THAN YOU CAN IMAGINE. Grades, work, health, appearance, tact, personal relationships, *sexual relationships… everything takes a toll.</p></li>
<li><p>After I finally managed to switch into another room down the hall, an Australian exchange student (who became my good friend) took my previous spot in the first room. During finals week of Winter quarter, Aussie reported to us that our boy went nuts and punched a bunch of holes in the walls of his shower. A crowd gathered in the hallway as the RAs and RD tried for a while to diffuse the situation. They tried talking to him, but he just laid there in his bed with his face buried in his pillow and remained unresponsive. The police ended up coming and didn’t have any luck either. They eventually carried him out of the room tied down to a stretcher. Last we saw of him. Good riddance.</p></li>
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<p>TL;DR; He was so *<strong><em>ing horrible / I’m still so *</em></strong>ing angry.</p>

<p>thanks again. I heard philosophy is a good preparation major for LSAT and law school. do you agree with this? are you having an easy time with your LSAT prep thanks to stuff you learned from philosophy? Did you work at all during your tenure at ucla? if not, was it because the workload was too much? Also when did you get your job? was it after graduating? I heard many people get offered jobs before they even graduate</p>

<p>omg…I hope your roommate got some help =/</p>

<p>Kinda makes me look back on my own dorm experience and feel a bit more grateful…</p>

<p>nah…not really lol. Yeah, it’s definitely an experience.</p>

<p>@pinkerfloyd</p>

<p>lol, Sorry to hear about your dorm experience. I’m planning to stay at UCLA for 3 years to do some minors (if they let me). So I was thinking about living on campus for the first 2 years given that most freshman spend their first 2 years on campus.</p>

<p>@Chelzmcnamara</p>

<p>"I heard philosophy is a good preparation major for LSAT and law school. do you agree with this? are you having an easy time with your LSAT prep thanks to stuff you learned from philosophy? Did you work at all during your tenure at ucla? if not, was it because the workload was too much? Also when did you get your job? was it after graduating? I heard many people get offered jobs before they even graduate "</p>

<p>I should say first that some people will do better than others on the LSAT regardless who puts in more time studying. That said, I studied my ass off for about 3 months. 6-8 hours a day in the library, 5 or 6 days a week. And that’s studying-studying, without facebook and reddit breaks every 5 seconds. </p>

<p>Phil helped a LOT with the logical reasoning section and (for me, at least, more often than not) the right answers just sort of ‘stuck out’. I was -15 on logic games on my diagnostic (154). -1 on game day after locking down book-learned strategies. And reading comp… **** reading comp so hard… Philosophy trains you to take your time with reading, and encourages you to find and infatuate over slight ambiguity, unclarity and verbosity – the exact opposite of what you need to do with LSAT’s RC.</p>

<p>I scored in the 99th percentile and credit philosophy for a one-up on LR, but to call my study a 2 or 4 year practice course would be so dumb. That is really dumb. For real. </p>

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<li><p>I worked from summer between junior and senior year until April of senior year. By then I knew the system and it wasn’t too hard. I was also involved in USAC and pretty active in another on-campus org. I mean, really, it’s totally doable.</p></li>
<li><p>I traveled a little and studied for the LSAT this summer (October test). I started looking for the job in mid/late October and started mid November. So far as people being offered jobs before they graduate, if they are offered anything, it’s most likely from an internship they’d been working leading up to graduation. Otherwise, I’m pretty sure they were looking and applying for various jobs saying that they would be able to start after graduation…</p></li>
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<p>@LAforlife</p>

<p>“lol, Sorry to hear about your dorm experience. I’m planning to stay at UCLA for 3 years to do some minors (if they let me). So I was thinking about living on campus for the first 2 years given that most freshman spend their first 2 years on campus.”</p>

<p>I look back and laugh about it. </p>

<p>You won’t have a problem staying a 3rd year if you’re working toward a degree and not just taking filler classes. If you stay 3 and want to do the dorm thing, you’ll go 1 in dorms and 2 in apartments. Trust me and don’t concern yourself with it.</p>

<p>Generally, life is pretty different at 21+ than at 18-20. Word is bond.</p>

<p>@ pinkerfloyd</p>

<p>Ya ok, thanks for the advice. I don’t even know if I’m gonna get in yet anyway. How did you deal with long wait (still 1 month to go :()? I’m starting to go little bit crazy…</p>

<p>^ UGH, me too! I do have to admit, though, that CC seems to exacerbate the craziness, haha :3 seeing all these people at other UCs discussing their acceptances is driving me up the wall!</p>

<p>@Laforlife</p>

<p>hahahhaha it was so bad. It was SO bad… And I’m neurotic to begin with… I’ll say, though, law school apps were a little easier to wait on because 1) rolling admissions and 2) I’m busier than I was and my mind is on other things. </p>

<p>Buy a motorcycle and hit the gym. Works for me…</p>

<p>@justinetruant</p>

<p>I feel exactly the same way! I have trouble focusing on my classes and I have to hear from Irvine too (the only other college I applied to). I can’t wait for the end of April…</p>

<p>@jstuinetruant </p>

<p>Yeah, it’s frustrating seeing other people relieved about something that you’re still nervous about, but for every one of them, there’s one of you… I owe a lot to CC for taking all of the verbal frustration that my friends and family didn’t understand and couldn’t deal with.</p>

<p>@ pinkerfloyd</p>

<p>Ugh, I think I’m gonna go crazy. I can’t even relax and to other stuff outside of school becuase I have so many essays and projects due. How is the weather in Westwood compared to the valley? I’m sure it’ll be fine in the spring and summer, but I’m a bit worried about fall and winter. I hate cold or cloudy weather even every now and then. I’m not used to it all.</p>

<p>@ pinkerfloyd. thanks again. very informative stuff.</p>

<p>so you graduated from ucla last june and took the LSAT on october right? how do you plan on paying for law school? are you gonna keep working at your current place while going to law school? will you be taking out loans?</p>

<p>@pinkerfloyd</p>

<p>hahaha! yeah, I certainly find all this information helpful. it’s nice to know that there are other people in the same position as well, especially after my whole family essentially told me that no one goes to community college unless they’re losers. well now I have internet friends! I sure showed them! ^_^</p>

<p>@LAforlife</p>

<p>I’m glad I’m not the only one who simply CANNOT WAIT</p>

<p>@ justinetruant</p>

<p>lol, My feelings exactly. I’m very jealous of all the freshman who have already found out…</p>

<p>@ justine I don’t think anyone who went to HS with me will believe me when I tell them I’m going to a UC in the future ha</p>

<p>@LAforLife</p>

<p>ugh, tell me about. WE ARE SO CLOSE(ish)</p>

<p>@Chelz</p>

<p>RIGHT. I mean, I didn’t just drop out of high school, I was expelled! I was “that kid.” And now I want to study astrophysics? They probably all think I’m lying anyway, haha :)</p>

<p>@LAforlife</p>

<p>Westhood / surrounding area has the best weather. Especially this “winter.” Seriously. The best. </p>

<p>@Chelzmcnamara</p>

<p>"so you graduated from ucla last june and took the LSAT on october right? how do you plan on paying for law school? are you gonna keep working at your current place while going to law school? will you be taking out loans? "</p>

<p>Yes and yes. I’ll take out loans and hope for additional aid. In talking to young associates at my current job, most took out quite a bit and none of them seem to have a problem making payments on their loans. I’m not worried about it. </p>

<p>Also, if you’re in law school, your job is law school…</p>

<p>@ pinkerfloyd</p>

<p>lol ok. Did you like Philosophy? I listed it as my alternate major (History is my 1st choice), I have TAP. I loved the Philosophy course I took last year, but I found it to be bit difficult as well. My term paper for that class might have been the hardest thing I’ve ever written.</p>

<p>@ justine yeah their jaws will drop when i flash them my id at whatever school i go to haha. where you plan on going? </p>

<p>@ pinkerfloyd thanks a lot for everything</p>