<p>Hi, I have heard now a few people say that UCLA is a big school but it "feels like a smaller community." Is this true? and what makes it feel this way? does it feel smaller? Also, I was wondering is almost all of the housing on "the hill"?</p>
<p>yup all campus housing building are on the hill and close together. Probably that's the recent why people feel it's small! not so sure.</p>
<p>You should always make an effort to make it small for yourself - meet a lot of people and say hi to everybody. Get to know the people in your classes and the crazy random people in your dorms, it makes life unpredictable.</p>
<p>Thats what a lot of girls have told me about Spam actually. Emphasis on the "feel small" part. :rolleyes:</p>
<p>Hey...Be quiet...</p>
<p>At least it's big.</p>
<p>Well at orientation I got to see like 450 kids of the freshman class and only got to know like 25 of them haha. The whole time was like damn...there's 4,500 of us...and I won't have the chance to meet them all haha. But yeah it felt pretty small to me because of the community of friends I met. Pretty depressing that you can't meet all 4,500 though >_< haha</p>
<p>People form cliques extremely quickly, usually based on major and ethnicity. That's what makes it feel small. :rolleyes:</p>
<p>People get that feeling every day just walking back from class. Nothing is more daunting than to be standing at Anderson going back the North campus route and seeing the Hill way up high. It looks like it will take you forever to get there. But you know if you've done it before, it's really only 10 minutes.</p>
<p>And honestly, when it comes to people on campus, sometimes you are walking at peak hours and you become flooded in an absolute mob. Other times there are like only 3 people around in sight. Classes are no different (aka the 300 person class vs the 45 person class).</p>
<p>That's probably what I like best about UCLA. I'm not always overwhelmed even though it's huge, but sometimes it's cool knowing there are a lot of us (you try cutting a 20 person class! it's way easier with 300).</p>
<p>:)</p>
<p>theres a lot of students, but i believe UCLA is physically the smallest UC campus in terms of area.</p>
<p>^
I thought it was the most dense?</p>
<p>San Francisco has the smallest campus technically, according to Wikipedia. We have the second smallest, but the largest population. So yeah, the most dense.</p>
<p>umm u can easily get lost in the mob i you dont make any effots
agreed with flopsy on race+ethnicity (esp in s. campus, non?) </p>
<p>as my ra put it -<br>
you can make a big school feel small as opposed to living in a complete bubble @ a lac </p>
<p>sortve w/e</p>
<p>yup UCLA has the smallest campus in terms of acreage (cept SF, but thats grad only) and has the most students out of all the UC's. So.... packing them like sardines</p>
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theres a lot of students, but i believe UCLA is physically the smallest UC campus in terms of area.
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<p>I heard the same.</p>
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I thought it was the most dense?
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<p>The small area would contribute to its density.</p>
<p>noooo mme-lin the saying is "u can make a big campus feel small but u can't make a small campus feel big"</p>
<p>oh whatever you get the point <3</p>
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agreed with flopsy on race+ethnicity (esp in s. campus, non?)
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<p>...blacks, latinos, native americans, etc. are small herds. maybe they should band together and take over esuc by rigged elections and such. idk just a thought</p>
<p>well with enough alcohol u coullddd forget every person u meet every single day, thereby making a small campus seem big =P</p>