<p>I am currently a USC freshmen. Now this is not a hate thread for UCLA bruins. I just wanted to ask the online community a question about this rivalry that is starting to annoy me. Any USC'ers or UCLA'ers/ alumni can share their thoughts. Sorry if im harsh, but don't be offended, I'm dating a Bruin myself. :)</p>
<p>Is it just me or are UCLA people more anal about their school than USC people. I never find myself bragging or rubbing my trojan pride into peoples faces. However, i have a lost a few good friends who went to UCLA because even after the usc/ucla rivalry fun wore off, they started acting like a-holes and wouldnt even talk to me. Example: a friend of mine of 6 years is always **<strong><em>y to me whenever i mention ucla on facebook. even if its nothing to do with the rivalry. she always has to comment and make some snide remark. Its getting a bit ridiculous. Im trying not to make judgments, but it seems that UCLA people are *</em></strong>*y about their school. </p>
<p>I have had my fun with Anti UCLA jokes, but theyve been played out now. Why is it that UCLA people keep it going? Are USC'ers as a whole more down to earth and less cocky. </p>
<p>PLEASE leave an unbiased opinion. :) thanks</p>
<p>I could take this story and apply it directly to some of my U of Michigan friends. I literally had people stop talking to me because I chose MSU over U of M. Oh well, it weeds out your true friends and screw the rest of them.</p>
<p>yea USCers are the gamecocks, but to be honest ive met with an unbelievable amount of hostility from all of my ucla friends. im just really confused about all this.</p>
<p>Perhaps because USC is a private school, there is resentment from the public-schoolers at UCLA. The impression may be that because the cost is so much higher, the students are wealthier, (therefore snobbier or more elitiest). Note, I said impression, not reality. </p>
<p>Psh - you’re just a freshman - give the hate time to sink in :)</p>
<p>But in all seriousness, I think you might be taking their comments too seriously, and it’s obvious that the rivalry just isn’t a big thing for you. But for a lot of the rest of the student population (USC and UCLA alike, mind you), the rivalry with the “school across town” is meant to be taken seriously, meaning that I always give my USC friends crap when USC loses… or just pretty much any other time period haha (and vice versa). And as always, my two favorite teams are UCLA and whoever is playing USC :D. I have plenty of friends from USC and we always go back and forth with the ribbing. It might sound rough (“F&#* SC”, etc.), but its a rivalry - get over it. I’d be willing to bet that your friends are thinking that you’re the one taking the rivalry too seriously.</p>
<p>It never goes away, btw. I’m now attending medical school on the east coast, and when one of the MDs (a USC alumnus) whose research project I’m getting involved with found out that I went to school in Los Angeles, he said “I hope you’re not a Bruin or we might have to reconsider your position here”.</p>
<p>It’s all in good fun - if you don’t want to participate, then don’t, but don’t get offended when not everyone else sees things like you do.</p>
<p>HA - please… the resentment actually goes the other way. Just remember the one way in which USC students and UCLA students are the same - they all got into USC :D</p>
<p>I dont think it will go away. I’m a UNC student and I have plenty of people I know @ Duke. Want to talk about rivarly? Yeah its always joke after joke when I see this people.</p>
<p>I really think it goes both ways. There are extremists at either school, you just happened to communicate with ones at UCLA that are very into the rivalry, I’m sure there are Bruins who have experienced what you have from USC kids. I’d take it for what it is, an individual case and avoid judging a school of almost 40,000 students for it (which, since you’re dsting a Bruin, I assume you don’t =) ).</p>
<p>Judging by my experiences with USC and UCLA, I would expect USC students to be more into the rivalry. Sorry, OP, but “rubbing trojan pride into people’s faces” is exactly what I’ve come to expect from SC students and fans. Granted, some of that is almost certainly because I went to Stanford, which has a much bigger rivalry with USC than we do with UCLA.</p>