@phil067 i got to tour the village rooms when i went to a transfer event last summer, and let me tell you, they are NICE! i loved them. there is a west building and an east building. the guide told us east gets hotter (it’s the taller building, too.) and you can see the ocean from both of them, though it depends on where your room is inside the building. all of the room shave a bathroom inside, they’re basically like apartments. you have a room, and it comes with a living room, kitchen, and then your bedrooms (i think most had two bedrooms, with 2 beds each) and then your bathroom. you also have a separate room for the shower (it’s a bit hard to explain, but you enter the bathroom/shower place, and you have multiple sinks, and then you have like two other doors (like full doors, not stalls. doors to little rooms) where the toilets are in (one per each door). and then you have another door where the shower is in.) and every room i think has a door that leads to this bathroom/shower room. (sorry if that was confusing)
and the buildings are very new so everything is clean and still nice and everything! you have laundry rooms scattered about, and there are even study areas among the buildings that really make it feel more like a community because it doesn’t seem that everyone is just stuck in their room all day. there are rooms where there are video game consoles and tv’s and couches and you can rent out these rooms (free) for an hour at a time or so (actually i think it’s even less formal than that, the one hour thing is just a request but i dont think you really need to do any paperwork to rent it you just walk in and use it). they have pool tables, ping pong tables, just like general recreation type of stuff. and these areas (the study areas and console and entertainment places) all have glass walls. so it really adds to that feeling of community cuz you can walk around the village and see people doing these things, versus walking around and feeling lonely cuz everything is behind a wall and you can’t tell that people are inside. this really adds to that feeling of community imo.
the village also has its own market where you can buy groceries and they have a deli and bakery where they sell coffee and general bakery stuff like muffins, ect. they also sell fresh fruit but it’s not much (the size of their fresh fruit stand was like the size of those ice cream coolers you see at seven eleven, the one that isn’t like a tall fridge but like a fridge laying on the floor type of thing) but they have farmers markets every tuesday i think where you can get more produce.
and the RA’s try to plan events every week where you can socialize. some of them plan movie nights and you can watch a movie on a projector outside, or barbecue where they cook, or just general things like that. they really suggest you dorm at the village to get a better experience since transfers that commute will probably find it a lot harder to make a community and get involved.
i cannot stress how clean and new these buildings are. they were recently constructed so they might actually be the newest residential places at UCSD (and for transfer students, no less!).
@futurelawyer88 would you mind telling me about how UCI looks like? (maybe in the UCI thread though… i just realized it might be off topic here lol) it’s the only one i haven’t visited yet out of the ones i applied to!
