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imBLIND
Profile Blog Joined December 2006
United States2626 Posts
May 06 2011 21:20 GMT
#1
I got rejected from everywhere except UC Irvine a couple months ago, and now, I get an email saying that UCSD is gonna accept me into my top major - nanoengineering (Sixth College). I would be a BioMed major at UCI, which was my second major.

I'm gonna be frank -- I have no idea how the social life or the academic life is at either of these two colleges. All i hear is that Irvine has great food and hot chicks and that UCSD has an engineering program that rivals closely with other top tier schools. Also, I'm pretty prone to fake diseases (really bad case of senioritis), and the sound of Triton's eye does not sound appealing...Is it really that bad at UCSD as they make it sound?

If any of you guys go to UCI or UCSD, could you tell me how you liked it and how the life is over there?

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Myrkskog
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
Canada481 Posts
May 06 2011 21:29 GMT
#2
Seeing that you barely got accepted into any schools at all I would probably make sure your priorities are straight.

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TheDoctor
Profile Joined August 2009
66 Posts
May 06 2011 21:40 GMT
#3
totally agree with the poster above
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shindigs
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
United States4795 Posts
May 06 2011 23:37 GMT
#4
Have you gone to either school to check out the environment? That's a pretty big factor a well seeing as you'll be living there for the next few years.

I have no idea what advice to give you if your deciding factors are girls and food. Both have women and both have food and both are subjective in taste.

People say both schools have a pretty "dead" social scene but that doesn't mean anything. If you like to stay inside and game you can do both at both schools. If you like to to go out and party and pick up girls you can do it at either school. I think a pretty big factor for you if all you care about is social life and getting womenz is to see which place you could stand to live in for the next few years.
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MoreFaSho
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States1427 Posts
May 06 2011 23:48 GMT
#5
Go to SD. Everybody I know who went there loves it and considers it the best experience of their lives. If you're Asian and socializing with other Asian people is the only thing you plan on doing is socializing with other Asian people, it's possible the social life at UCI would be better (although there are still plenty of Asian people at UCSD), but from what I've heard and the experience I've had in both areas, San Diego is like 100x more awesome place to be both in campus and location.
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illKarasu
Profile Joined March 2011
United States58 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-05-07 00:14:58
May 07 2011 00:14 GMT
#6
u got into nanoengineering at UCSD? crappity crap batman!!!! since you're just going into college (i assume you're in HS not a transfer from community college) I guess you won't know if you will like engineering or anything. Let me tell you though, the nano program at UCSD is probably the most interesting RIGHT NOW because there is a lot of funding, a lot of cross-major collaboration, and even a new BUILDING being constructed. Top in the nation status. Just saying, if you think you will like engineering and are not sure if you may really prefer physics, or bio, or chem, this major will possibly let you branch into any of the above. I graduated (chem) as this was formulating, so I had no chance to be play a part, though I tried very hard to do so.

Academically, you have similar styles of teaching at UCI and UCSD because they are research based schools. Esp for your major, your general ed will be in classrooms of 300 kids no joke, with of course "discussion section" of 20-30 kids to get reviews taught by a Teaching Assistant, lecture style. I must say academically there is no better school for your first or second major than at UCSD and UCI respectively. Such amazing programs and professors.

Socially, I think both are equally dead on campus, and equally fun off campus. Environmentally, UCSD fqn pwns irvine. In SD we have miles of beach, are 40 mins from Tijuana (though I have family there I don't like it much to party, but some do), an hour from GORGEOUS hiking and mountains (lookup Julian, Cuyamaca, and Ramona), an unusual concentration of breweries (Stone, Karl Strauss, Alesmith, Pizza Port, Ballast Point and easily about 15 more), 2.5 hour drive to snowboarding....I love San Diego.

What have I missed? Oh yes. Ze ladeez. UCSD is full of unhot people. (NOTE-anybody from UCSD reading this-I am obviously not hott, neither are you d; ). But really, not too many bombshells. I'm not so sure about Irvine, I never heard they have hott girls (and I actually go to Irvine area to party every few weeks).

I do know that Irvine is near Orange County, and that place is BRIMMING with delicious food. Viet, Chinese, Korean, Mexican, Thai, Seafood you name it. San Diego has its pockets, but I admit, not to the same magnitude. STILL, this requires you to drive 30-40 minutes away sometimes. If you do this for SD, you can come up with the same level of delicious food, especially Mexican food the closer you get to El Border.

In long conclusion, I love SD, and I loved what I learned at UCSD, but I really did not dig the campus. The social life on campus was far outweighed by the life I had outside of that dingy grey social bubble, and I am sad to say that many people do not leave their small 2mile radius comfort zone from campus. Too bad for them!

UCI or UCSD, it's what you make it. gl hf dawggggg
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