<p>I’m not sure yet. If all goes as planned, whole family comes with me hahaha.</p>
<p>My kid has a razor, but it hurts my back when I try to use it (I’m 6’ also). I wouldn’t bring it around on campus though unless you rice it with the spark attachment.</p>
<p>@ essaner
thanks! that was good info…was that just regarding the village?</p>
<p>are there any transfer residence halls? since im a one year transfer, is there a way i can dorm with nontransfers?</p>
<p>^ no the village is the transfer “res hall”. unless something wierd happened, i doubt anyone could get into regular dorms or on campus apartments.</p>
<p>^ You can get into regular campus apartments, but the pricing and room assignments are completely different. They’re more of a regular lease just like a regular apartment and the structure is entirely different. They look more like regular apartments too. </p>
<p>The Village is more of a community duplex type of system. My ex girlfriend had a party at her on campus apartment when I was seeing her, and I remember it wasn’t far from the price center and it was very roomy compared to the village. </p>
<p>My ex girlfriend’s friend had another apartment up the hill toward the northern side of campus, it was two story and more of a condo. Also a lot more roomy, but definitely more pricey. </p>
<p>The Village, you pay UCSD a flat rate for your space. On campus apartment, you take out a lease with other people that you choose. I’m not sure if that’s how it works, but I know that my ex girlfriend and my friend all had roommates that they wanted to room with. At The Village it’s only a “request”.</p>
<p>well ucsd is my second choice and im pretty sure im not going to get in ucla : [. i am a one year transfer student (turning 19 in may) and was wondering if i could live in the marshall apartments ( i heard they are spatious). i dont really want to live at the village because of the price (1000-1200) and also i want to be with students my age (freshmen/soph). Is it possible for me to live in the marshall apartments or any other oncampus housin besides the village?</p>
<p>bump for questiion ^^</p>
<p>From what I’ve been told, Transfer students can’t live in regular on campus housing because Freshmen who apply to it get priority and spacing is limited.</p>
<p>Basically, transfer students automatically get sent to a different application that puts them at the village. </p>
<p>Sorry.</p>
<p>ohh so thats the main reason why? i read theres like a waitlist. Hm i just want to live in regular oncampus housing because of my age group, because its a bit cheaper (or so i heard), and its closer to the center of the campus. Do i get an exception since im a younger than the avg transfer?</p>
<p>and yea i saw that the transfer housing application is open after current ucsd students’ are due</p>
<p>Hmm, I’d want to live in The Village but it’s TOO expensive and I’d rather find an apartment to share somewhere close to campus…I think that’ll be a lot cheaper. Gah, looking for a place to live is such a daunting task 
Hopefully I can find sane/normal apartment-mates hehe</p>
<p>I think I’m gonna find someone to rent a room from. It’s usually wayy cheaper than even sharing a 2 bedroom apartment AND nicer (I speak from current experience in OC lol). You just have to get lucky and find someone that is easy to get along with that’s renting the room lol</p>
<p>I sure want to live in the village because it looked nice on the website lol. Im
checkin it out on transfer admit day. I was also thinking of getting an apartment off campus but i dont know anyone from SD so it’ll be a tedious task to look for roomies.</p>
<p>Sooo I just submitted my housing application. I just need to finalize it once I submit my SIR. No idea yet when I’m doing that…</p>
<p>Yeah I submitted my housing app just a few mins ago. I’m probably not going to live at the village though. I found some rooms for rent for around $500-$600 :)</p>
<p>@hellostranger57, if you’re not a creepo, add me on Facebook or PM me with some info, maybe if my apartment deal doesn’t work out, I can rent a 2 bedroom with you or something. Assuming our ideologies match up haha. </p>
<p>that goes for anyone CC related really. I might want to rent a 2 bedroom right next to campus.</p>
<p>assuming the TAG thing goes through, i’ll be needing to look for housing as well… some stuff fell through for me so… yeah.</p>
<p>A lot of people commenting on the housing and haven’t been there. I’ll comment:</p>
<p>1) It’s about $1100 a month and you share a room. Included in that price is food. If you factor in gas, groceries and maintenance of a car, the equivalent would be paying $650 to share a room off campus and the remaining $550 (which is a VERY skeptical amount) goes to getting to campus and back. They’re furnished, which is nice, but furniture is what you make of it. The kitchen and living room areas are not as big as you’d expect.</p>
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<li>Kitchen and living room is biggest in Buildings 2 & 3. Those buildings also conveniently have a island in the kitchen which u can use to … play BP! :]</li>
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<p>2) They’re designed with an “older student” in mind. So they have full kitchens with a stove, a nice view of the beach and like others said, they’re more “lenient” about drinking. </p>
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<li>Not every room has an ocean view and some R.As/RSOs are *******s. I’ve gotten written up at least 6 times.</li>
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<p>Now for the cons:</p>
<p>1) They’re small! Really small. My bedroom is probably the same size as their “dual” rooms and I pay $550 a month and I’m 10 minutes from campus. Getting a single room for yourself is purely about luck and if you do it’s a great deal because it’s only about $150 more. The tour guide even mentioned that people were complaining about that. </p>
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<li>The rooms aren’t as small as the other housing facilities on campus. They’re actually most likely the biggest.</li>
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<p>2) They’re not as close to campus as you think. They’re about a 15 minute walk to campus and there’s one shuttle that takes you to lecture halls. The shuttles come very often, so this isn’t too big of a deal. </p>
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<li>Yeah they apartments are pretty far from the heart of the campus, Price Center. But there are some really nice places that make up for it. The RIMAC gym is like a 5 minute walk, the school just opened up a legit sports bar right next to a new coffee/lounge/study place/market. It’s also conveniently located nearest to the beach & Gliderport than any other college/part of the school. There are actually 2 shuttles running in each direction, counter- and clockwise, 4 total. </li>
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<p>3) They look weird on the outside, like a prison. I just couldn’t shake this feeling that they looked like a prison. There aren’t a lot of trees, the area is kind of out there. (It’s in campus, but the outskirts and there’s no populated areas near it. Price Center, library, Warren housing, Muir housing are all really far away from it) </p>
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<li>I don’t know what kinds of prison actually look like the Village but yeah I think they’re/been trying to plant more trees, but I think there’s enough. The Village is also really close to ERC and Cafe Ventanas which are pretty populated for the most part. Best of all they’re closest to I-House (international housing) and they definitely have the most leniency/craziest parties on campus.</li>
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<p>4) It’s going to be really loud during the day there from 2010-2011. They’re constructing another building right across the street. If you like to study during the day, you’re going to hear jackhammers, cement mixers, workers and foremen yelling at each other. I like just hearing a breeze and the tree branches outside moving around. </p>
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<li>The construction will mostly affect the people in the tower facing in that direction, along with buildings 2 & 3 facing that way. A lot of my people I knew that faced the construction did complain a lot about being woken up in the early mornings to the annoyance of construction. That’s why y’all should pay an extra like $15-20 to face the ocean! haha… I lived in the tower and faced the oceanside and didn’t hear too much of the construction with the exception that my living room windows were all open. When in my room with the door closed, I didn’t really notice the construction.</li>
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<p>5) If you’re a responsible adult, you can manage your food finances. I did the calculations and the food award they give you is $185 a month. That’s a decent chunk sure, and you can eat a lot at the UCSD cafeteria (good food and it’s a buffet) but you’d have to eat about once or twice a day for it to work out. $1079 - $185 = How much you’re paying for rent, utilities and internet. And the internet isn’t really that great trust me. </p>
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<li>I wouldn’t really say the food was good. It’s alrightttt… and it’s definitely not a buffet The food is pretty expensive and gets repetitive. There is also ‘Fine Dining’ on Wednesday where they have pretty bomb food, but it’s pretty damn expensive. Internet at the Village is pretty amazing, so I don’t know where you heard that from. I got speeds up to 6.0 mb/s no joke.</li>
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<p>I would say consider living off campus and just make friends on campus. Trust me, you’ll make friends. I mean it’s a University! You can even make friends in here. Any of you guys like watching UFC? I’m a fight fan and I work out regularly too.</p>
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<li>It’s actually pretty hard to meet people in classes. Most people just go to class like right on time and lecture starts. You can’t really socialize while the professor lectures haha. The best way to meet people, in my opinion, is to live on campus. If you don’t live on campus, the best way is to get involved, join clubs and whatnot.</li>
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<p>Oh and about the gym: UC gyms are FANTASTIC. UCSD has two gyms I believe, one next to Warren and one next to Muir and they are nice. They have rock climbing, olympic weights, power racks, squat racks, nice treadmills for cardio, full basketball courts. </p>
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<li>The biggest/nicest gym is next to the one and only VILLAGE! along with the track & soccer/baseball fields and the tennis courts are like a 3 minute walk.</li>
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<p>If you’re concerned about off campus because of commute, you can park your car at UTC next to Macy’s and take the free bus to UCSD and it drops you off next to Gillman structure. It circles the campus so you can get dropped off at quite a few spots next to shuttle stops. Using this method, no need for parking permits ($175 a quarter! Ouch!) and if you buy a bike and put a bike rack on your car you can even take a bike to campus. (Chicks dig dudes that ride road bikes plus you’ll stay in shape and lower your carbon foot print)</p>
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<li>Or you can park down the Gliderport all day for free. It’s right next to the Village. It says NO PARKING betweens 2-6am though ha so u can move your car on campus after 11pm to park for free but then you would have to move it again at 8ish haha… </li>
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<p>HOPE MY COMMENTS HELPED!.. if y’all have any more questions I’d be more than happy to answer them. I’ve lived at The Village for the past year and it was an SPECTACULAR experience! :]</p>
<p>@layzeboi</p>
<p>Was the village very lively at all? Or are the RA’s total party nazis? I’m really concerned with just having booze at my place once in awhile. I hope it’s not dry 24/7 over there.</p>
<p>And were your neighbors friendly? I always had this notion that everyone knows eachother on a given floor of a dorm.</p>
<p>@audioslavery</p>
<p>Fall quarter was definitely the liveliest of all the quarters. After that I would say like 20% give or take would assemble outside and hangout and whatnot. People usually tend to form there own cliques by the end of fall quarter but you will always see people roaming around for the most part. The RA’s during my time at the Village weren’t too bad. There were like 3 of them that I would always see writing people up. You can have booze at your place any time. The RAs and RSOs aren’t allowed to go inside your apartment suite but a lot of people don’t know that and let them in consequently getting everybody hiding in trouble…</p>
<p>There’s plenty of people at the village that come out like once every blue moon. A lot of people that live in the tower don’t even know a lot of their floormates nor towermates its pretty sad. I knew pretty much everybody on my floor and most of them were friendly. The smaller buildings on the other hand tend to have a closer relationship with their floormates from what I’ve heard. It really all depends on how to approach things.</p>
<p>Also is there a Facebook group for all the new Village transfers that you know about?</p>
<p>Well I ended up paying the prepayment, but then they ran out of single rooms, so now I’m going to find a room to rent off campus (or find an apartment). I’m not okay with paying $1000-1100 (850-950 not counting the food plan. $7 a day is not enough for food.) to share a bedroom and then have up to 5 or 6 other people sharing the apartment also lol. I’m still really excited about going to UCSD in the fall!</p>