<p>^ Word. I prettyy much only stress about math classes. 30% of the grade is the Midterm, 50% Final</p>
<p>My friend at Cal (totally nuts Physics/CoC double major - not a transfer, accepted out of HS) showed me his old organic chem exams (for 112A). It’s exactly the same material that we get tested on in CC. Maybe it’s just that my professor is rigorous ( very rigorous D: ), but he says that the lecture material looks pretty similar as well.</p>
<p>I don’t know what the humanities courses are like, but I’m sure that intro gen ed courses are the same everywhere.</p>
<p>what i think is happening is that the UC’s are making the teachers at CC’s teach the material in a way the students understand the easiest yet on a level that requires them to use some sort of intermediate cognitive function. </p>
<p>Those that want it will get it and those that want to fall through the cracks, will.</p>
<p>So it is normal to have classes where the average curve is around 50ish for passing at the UC level?</p>
<p>What’s life like after transferring to a UC? Well, I just completed my first quarter here at UCD and it was tough at certain times and easier in others. For one, like others have said, the quarter system goes by fast and there is very little room for error. I took three math classes (Math 21B, Stats 103, Stats 108) and all required a lot of work. The hardest class I had wasn’t even integral calculus, it was Stats 108. It was very theoretical with lots of work to do for homework and an analysis project due on the day of the final. My project was 13 pages long and took me an entire weekend to do. I got a 100/100 so my work paid off lol. </p>
<p>My advice to all of those once you do transfer? DO NOT PROCRASTINATE. It’s like being slowly eaten alive. It’s a different ball game at this level and you will need to put the time in to get a decent grade.</p>
<p>unhopeful raised an interesting point</p>
<p>statmanaggie, thank you for that insight. glad you’re having success, i remember when you guys were in our shoes now earlier this year when i was just early browsing.</p>
<p>Quarter system is like a summer semester then I’m guessing? If so, I guess we go to class 4 times a week instead of 2 like at CC?</p>
<p>^Nope. Classes are either MWF for 50minutes, or Tues/Thurs for 1 hour 40 minutes, there are the occasional classes that meet once a week for four hours or so.</p>
<p>I went to UCI for my freshman year and I decided to withdraw and attend my local community college…the quarter system is like a 10 week sprint there’s no room to mess up on assignments or bomb a midterm. The professors really aren’t there to teach…or at least that’s what it feels like. It’s also much more of a competitive atmosphere than the JC i go to…honestly I’m not sure where all of the hype about the uc system is all about? That being said if you’re a motivated student whose really going to work hard to succeed I think you’ll do fine at a UC, and I think preparing at a community college will certainly help.</p>
<p>Meh, to me, the coursework isn’t all that much more difficult than CC (and I was a lousy CC student). I’m poli sci with an IR emphasis and didn’t do the readings until the week of midterms and finals to catch up. Ended up with an A, A, A-, A- on the midterms and am pretty confident that I crushed the finals. </p>
<p>In the summer (which are 5 week courses I think) I got an A+, A+, A.</p>
<p>@Grimes99</p>
<p>Yeah, I’m glad to hear that the coursework isn’t much more difficult.</p>
<p>Plus, university students have numerous resources available that CC students do not, namely section-based tutoring, multiple readers/TAs per section, and research opportunities.</p>
<p>Also glad to hear that you’re doing very well.</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>I went to office hours once to ask a question and I’m doing research now for a TA but overall I haven’t used many resources available. But yeah, they’re definitely there.</p>
<p>If your curious about coursework I find myedu.com pretty helpful…Although if a class has 99% A grades, one still doesn’t know if the class is really easy or if the students are just really motivated and competitive.</p>
<p>It wasn’t that bad, but keeping tabs on my uni’s transfer group on facebook a lot of people did feel as if they ran into a brick wall. Probably one of the first things that struck me was how much more walking there is to do lol. Your feet will probably hurt the first week or two! </p>
<p>TAs are a mixed bag. I had a TA in one of my classes that had this “Hey mom look I’m teaching a class!” vibe. He even put a button-up shirt over his tshirt to ‘teach’ the class. It was ridiculous and while I have to give him props for having the guts to pull that off, he wasn’t that helpful at all. I almost feel as if he didn’t watch the lectures, because his style and the teacher’s style were distinctly different, he took shortcuts the teacher never even tried (and DID NOT explain them), and consequentially confused the heck out of us. </p>
<p>I also had a couple of TAs that were pretty cool. So yea… mixed bag.</p>
<p>The biggest difference is the office staff… my engineering adviser is way more helpful than my CC counselors were. Some offices can do things in minutes that would take a CC office months to do :S</p>
<p>As for TA’s, I can honestly say that mine were cool this quarter and my review sessions paid off, especially for my stats classes. I’ve heard horror stories from friends with assistants from hell but that wasn’t the case for me. We will see how things go in winter though. I’m taking Linear Algebra with a supposedly really bad prof and hoping to God my TA’s will be useful. </p>
<p>@UCkittychen, thanks! Haha, yeah seems like just yesterday I was on here posting threads about my app questions, being an older re-entry student, etc. Man does time fly lol.</p>
<p>I just finished my first quarter as an Anthro major @ UCLA.</p>
<p>I work full time and commute, but I’ve been able to make a few friends. Most people make friends by living in the dorms or off-campus housing.</p>
<p>Lots of reading and writing, but I would say this quarter was pretty easy. I didn’t try that hard and will probably end up with an A, B, B. I’m sure this isn’t the case with bio majors.</p>
<p>I would say almost everyone reads and comes prepared to discussion.</p>
<p>Lastly, I took one really easy class…there were like 200+ students and about 90% seemed to be Asian…during breaks it seemed like everyone was talking Chinese or some other Asian language. I really felt like I was in another country, it was very weird.</p>
<p>So first quarter at UCSD living in the Village</p>
<p>Is it easy to make friends, sure if you make friends easily, some people seem to have a lot of trouble with it but I haven’t see it as an issue, show up to stuff and talk to people, it should work out.</p>
<p>Someone above did say something about the Village being worthless to make friends and I’d have to really disagree, there are some many spots where people just tend to hang out and people have been really friendly, as for parties I every weekend I hear parties going for a good long while, yes many parties do get broken up but every weekend I hear parties going until late, I assume it depends on which floor and building</p>
<p>Classes being harder, hmmm again it depends, science majors seem to be experiencing the biggest jump in challenge. I am a Philosophy major and about half of my classmates (that are transfers) say it’s considerably more challenging here then community college.</p>
<p>As for finding roommates when you are new, of course if you live at the village the assign you roommates, but in the summer the have a commuters connect thing where you can meet folks who are also going to be living off campus and possibly find roommates there.</p>
<p>@mbfox125: I’m in Village East and this place is almost entirely dead on the weekends. The first week there was a fat party in the next building over that got broken up by the RSO, RAs and a couple cops. Since then, nobody has risked it. There are minor parties, but we can’t play BP and there’s an allowance of two or three people per resident allowed in the apartment. They have some crazy strict rules (the enforcement may depend upon your RA, but I’ve seen the book, and it’s kinda nuts.) </p>
<p>I’m fine with it since I wouldn’t party here anyway, and I would prefer my living quarters to be for sleeping and studying. If you’re not from the area and don’t have the ability to party elsewhere… good luck.</p>
<p>I live in the east too and stand by my statement. I’m from the area and don’t like college parties so I don’t go most of the time I still get invited to a lot and hear them a lot. West as more parties and some weeks when midterms and common are pretty quiet. ( Also of the few parties I have gone too they all had BP, gross game, but at least I tend to win.)</p>
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Most of the philosophy students I’ve met here in Mesa (I’ve met about 20) don’t really like philosophy, sadly. They just kinda picked it b/c UC’s ask for 1 or 2 lower division classes to get in.</p>