<p>I'd love to learn more about Sixth College since I got accepted there. If you're a current student or know about it please share!</p>
<p>Hey! Welcome to Sixth! I’m currently a first year student here at sixth, so i can maybe answer any question you have. Congratz on your acceptance!</p>
<p>hello! can you please describe the CAT sequence and the dorm rooms in some detail please? thank you so much :]</p>
<p>I too got into sixth college and I would also like to hear about the sequence and dorm life. Thanks :)</p>
<p>So the CAT (Culture, Art, and Technology) is sixth’s writing courses. There’s 3 quarters you take in freshman year and then once more in junior/senior year (which, i’m not fully clear about, but it is combined with your practicum project). The interesting thing about the CAT classes is that each one has its own theme. Like first quarter, I took Media Seductions (studied various texts that influenced the audience, from all types of different mediums), while my roommate took this comics and animation about war one in which a bulk of her textbooks were graphic novels. Then this quarter we both took a Biomedical Ethics themed one. [Courses</a> | CAT: Culture, Art, Technology](<a href=“Culture, Art, & Technology”>Culture, Art, & Technology) if you look here, you can see the various themes, but they change from year to year. But ultimately, it’s a writing course: you read some texts and you write some papers. But just make sure you realize which one you picked when signing up for classes.
For the dorms, if you live in the residential halls, you live in these buildings that sorta look like cabins (you’ll often hear it being called Camp Snoopy). There’s 2 floors with a guy floor and a girl floor. The place where your floor is depends on your RA (so my RA is a guy, RA’s get the first floor so the bottom floor is all guys. Me being a girl, is on the top floor with the rest of the girls). Each floor is divided into 2 suites. Each suite has 5 rooms with a variation of doubles and triples (sometimes singles, but there are not many). Most buildings have a bathroom per suite with 2 toilets and 2 showers. Mine, for some reason, has a bathroom connecting to the suite on the other side, so we share 3 toilets and 4 showers. In each suite, you have a connecting common room which has a couch and a table.
The rooms are a decent size. All the rooms are just about the same size (which is kinda cool if you have a single, because i know in some colleges, the single room is like, half the size of a normal room). A double has a good amount of space; I have one and, it’s not extremely big, it’s got enough to hold all my junk. A triple, is a little cramped, but completely doable. (Oh, random tidbit: the collage selects which bed you get in the rooms. Like, I was assigned the left side of the room, while my roommate was assigned the other. So, less squabbling about who get’s what.) Each room comes with a bed, a desk and a wardobe per person. The triples have a bunk bed and a lofted bed.
Uhmm…all i can think of right now. haha:)</p>
<p>what other GE classes does sixth have besides the cat sequence? also, how would transferring ap credit work?</p>
<p>also prodigy, im still jealous you got into slo. i’d submit my sir right now if i got myself off that waitlist :[ since sd doesnt have a civil program, which major did you apply under?</p>
<p>Here’s a site for the specific GE classes <a href=“http://sixth.ucsd.edu/_files/GE_11-12_1-18-12.pdf[/url]”>http://sixth.ucsd.edu/_files/GE_11-12_1-18-12.pdf</a>
But to sum it up:
1 course in technology (usually a computer class)
2 courses in social analysis
2 courses in humanities
2 courses in science
1 course in math/logic
1 course in statistics
1 course in social science
1 course in ethics
8 units (usually 2 courses) in art classes</p>
<p>AP credit usually transfers into those GE’s and would either knock the 2 course down to 1 course or completely get it out of the way. For example, my 3 in AP US history gave me credit for 1 humanities course; so i only have one left.</p>
<p>@Heartarrow… Funny enough I applied as an economics major. SLO is the only school I applied to as civil engineering because engineering is something I have been somewhat interested in. I applied to all my other schools as economics/undecided so as to cover all the bases of my potential interests. As it stands now, I still have no idea what I want to do. UCSD is my #1 choice at the moment, still waiting on LA, CAL, USC, Northwestern, and a few other privates.</p>
<p>i have been accepted to sixth college as well and i heard that it is quite isolated from the campus. is this true?</p>
<p>Haha, we are a bit out of the way of things compared to other colleges. It’s not ridiculously far from everything, the annoying part is it’s mostly uphill. Sixth IS close to Price Center tho (has all the restaurants, bookstore, events) and if you plan to use the bus system a lot to get off campus, sixth is the closest to the major stop on campus.</p>
<p>Ohh icic that’s cool.
LOL i’m so scared to go to college cus i feel like i’ll be a loner and have no friends :(</p>
<p>Haha, honestly, don’t be worried at all about that. During orientation, they shove you with so many people in so many activities that you’re bound to make friends with SOMEONE. I think the best thing you can do is 1. Live on campus (roommates and suite-mates are awesome) 2. join clubs or sports teams. You’ll meet a lot of people that way.</p>
<p>What do you during the orientation?</p>
<p>Haha, I’m going to leave most of it to surprise, but they put you in groups and show you around campus, teach you about the school and play some fun games. Lots of free food too<3</p>
<p>@prodigy wellll if you choose to go to sd… might give me a better shot of getting off the waitlist hahaha. jk. i dont see any hope now. <em>resigned</em></p>
<p>@purplet1ger i really wouldnt worry about not making friends. you’ll be fine cuz everyone is pretty much in the same situation</p>
<p>thank you @Empressjoy ! i think you’ve covered a good amount of what i wanted to know and if I have more questions ill know to ask you! (: and congrats to everyone else too.</p>
<p>What are some cons for Sixth College?!</p>
<p>@stephanieatbest I graduated Fall 2012 from sixth. A couple of cons I had with sixth are:
- as a junior/senior getting your practicum done is ridiculously more troublesome then it has to be. It requires a proposal the quarter before you plan to do your project, which of course has to be approved. The practicum then has to be done the next quarter if your proposal was approved, and finally you have to take CAT 125 which is a senior writing course which reflects on your time as a UCSD student. Its a 3 quarter process and no one else on campus has to do something like it. (I would explain it more but I don’t want to bore you.)
- The art making GE sucks. I mean its easy, but its a pain. It’s two classes in two separate disciplines of art a total of 8 units (1 class = 4 units usually). So if you take a vis arts class you have to take like a dance/music/acting class (or any combination within the four). However, most of the classes in dance/music/acting either fill up really quickly or they are worth only 2 units which would require you to take 2 classes which wastes a quarter.
- From the res halls the foodworx (dining hall) is a pain of a walk. Either you walk through this path that cuts across the canyon or you walk all the way around a parking lot.
- The apartments are SUPER far out, I mean, ok its not bad now since they are building a ton of stuff around it, but when I was a sophomore, 3 years ago it was a 10-15 min walk to price center, 20-25 min walk to the gym (again there’s a bus, but just saying)</p>
<p>I have plenty of pros, but you just asked for cons so that;s what I’m giving you. Hope this helps</p>
<p>I just got into sixth too!
@abc002Do u mind sharing the pros of sixth college?
Which program is most sixth college students majoring in ?
Thanks</p>
<p>off the top of my head:
- CAT 125 is pretty awesome. because after your first year you get separated from your dormmates. some more than others but since senior year everyone takes 125 its like a huge reunion
- the apartments second year even tho they are far off they are super quiet. super spacious. top floor apartments are actually 2 floors so pretty awesome,
great for parties. - i would say that Empressjoy really covered most of the pros. I mean when it really comes down to it your college is where on campus you live. its like harry potter except with 6 colleges instead of 4 houses. you go to class with everyone from the different “houses” yeah you have a unique GE set for each one but really its just a place to live and the group you graduate with.
- the whole major thing is a myth you are going to get every kind of major possible. people say warrens better for engineering but there are plenty of sixth college engineers. its just that warren happens to be next to the engineering quad. so again major wise you’ll get everything.</p>