Warren/Engineering Student willing to answer questions

Colleges & Universities A-Z University of California - San Diego
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<p>@ smallblock

  1. Yes, you will have loads of free time. The 2 mechanical engineers I know have plenty of free time. Roommate plays way too much LoL… Though of course not before midterms or project deadlines.
  2. My friend did, but honestly I never encountered that problem (Though I came in with almost 70 credits). And I hear with the new system, it should be better. It allows you to choose 2 classes, let everyone choose 2. Then you can flesh out the rest of your class schedule.</p>

<p>@ GiggityGiggity: Its pretty hard to get into MAE, but I’m not going to discourage you. Just make sure you keep a high GPA and talk to your counselor to switch as soon as possible. I heard for Bio you need about a 3.4 GPA after the first year, so I assume its something similar. Best to talk to the counselor’s once you get there.</p>

<p>@ AncientGammoner: Yeah I don’t think you can do it over the summer. I suggest taking the offers at other places if you want to graduate in 2 years.</p>

<p>@ SadFool:

  1. You can always live off-campus from first year.
  2. Living off-campus means you can make your own food (depending on how good you cook, its better than cafe food). Also, its cheaper in terms of rent and food expense by out 1-4K depending on where you rent/how much you spend on food. Takes about 10-15 minutes to get to campus if you live on the UCSD shuttle routes, but I suggest leaving earlier since there is usually a line/lack of bus space.
  3. LOL. Its a big campus, but not that big. Arriving 1-2 minutes late isn’t the end of the world if you have 10 minutes to cross the campus for class. Bikes get stolen a lot so watch out, its not necessary.
  4. Yep, you definitely get a priority over freshman/sophmores. But these days, most sophmores are really juniors in terms of credits.
  5. Yes there are tutoring places and its usually peers/graduate students, but usually the TAs in your class are sufficient.
  6. If you print on campus, you’ll have to make a printing account and put money in it or charge to your student account. Some places you can print free (off-campus apartments).
  7. Other than study rooms at Warren and Price Center, I can’t recall anything else that is open 24/7. Usually they’re pretty quite and good anyway (well I don’t suggest PC, a lot of drunk people make runs to BK at night and do other notorious stuff…)
  8. For dorms, roommates were picked randomly and it worked out great. For one of my other friends, it was a horrible experience. Its variable from meeting your best friend to meeting your worst enemy, but you do have the option to switch out. Also, 2nd year I chose to randomly live with people who’d already decided to live together (meaning I didn’t know them beforehand) and it worked out great. We got along well, friends to this day, and had plenty of fun times together. Usually if you’re a nice fun-loving guy, it’ll work out fine.</p>