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- Koreatown
- Little Tokyo</p>
<p>UCSD only offers Structural Engineering as a major, rather than true Civil Engineering. I don't know why. :rolleyes:</p>
<p>if you are remotely asian, sawtelle and olympic.</p>
<p>dear flopsy - it is because structural engineering kicks ass!!!! structural engineers are the only true engineers HAHAHA </p>
<p>anyways their geotechnical stuff is pretty good too</p>
<p>ucsd<em>ucla</em>dad, how do your daughters feel the computer science facilities compare at both ucla and ucsd?</p>
<p>i'm like a bunch of you guys in that its basically between ucla and ucsd, but i'm leaning more towards ucla because of the more social/friendly atmosphere and i'm somewhat familiar with the area</p>
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BoelterHall, for UCSD you forgot the library. I think that's the most popular place of all.
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<p>Of course. Count in the gym for "entertainment". Plus wherever Phillip Wang goes.</p>
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BoelterHall, what's MPK?
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Montery Park. The heaven of Chinese-Americans.</p>
<p>haha, on a side note. I was accepted to cornell and columbia engineering programs last year and pulled out due to financial considerations, but good luck with everything. Be sure to visit and if you are planning a visit, go ahead and PM me and I'll see if I can take you around.</p>
<p>Wow..... Deuces, you're amazing. Sucks the money didn't work out for you at Cornell and Columbia. But anyways, I'll probably go East to Hopkins. I'll make the money work somehow.</p>
<p>Good luck with Hopkins Lake. I got waitlisted (didn't care much), but best of luck with that!</p>
<p>r30028:</p>
<p>To answer your question on facilities - UCSD's primary computer lab is in a brand new building. It's open and bright and even has windows to the outside (something many computer labs don't have). It also has all new computers - now mostly Dells with both Linux and Windows although they mostly use Linux. They used to use Sun workstations running Solaris. My daughter has spent many long hours in the computer lab and she likes this new one MUCH better than the old one which she called the dungeon (it was in a windowless basement).</p>
<p>The UCSD Jacobs School of Engineering has received quite a bit of money (from Jacobs of Qualcom) and has quite a few new buildings including a brand new CalIT2 (squared) building. UCSD also has the Supercomputer center which has several supercomputers and is the major internet hub for the region. I doubt this matters much to undergrads. </p>
<p>My UCLA daughter really hasn't used the labs there yet since she's done all of her work on her laptop (she's a first year). From my tour of the labs at UCLA they seem okay but not as nice as UCSD. I wouldn't use this as a basis for a decision though since they're both adequate.</p>
<p>UCSD uses Java as the primary language for learning in CS and UCLA uses C++. UCSD runs the programs primarily on Unix and UCLA runs on Windows (so far). My UCSD daughter (a fourth year) has also had assignments where she used C, C++, Sparc assembler, etc. I assume UCLA will also have students use other languages occasionally (I know my daughter will use MIPS assembler next quarter). Both Java and C++ fine for the purpose of instruction so one isn't better than the other for this purpose - I'm just pointing out a difference.</p>
<p>So far the two programs appear pretty comparable in what they're learning and in the pace and difficulty of the courses (i.e. fast paced).</p>
<p>If you haven't done so yet, I suggest visiting the facilities at both schools and also checking out what it might be like to live on-campus for the first couple of years and what it might be like to live off-campus (i.e. available housing in the general area) along with proximity to recreational or other outside interests you have.</p>
<p>thanks for the reply ucsd<em>ucla</em>dad, guess i'm going to wait to go to the open houses of each to decide =)</p>