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Sort By: [Date] [Major] [Rating] Political Science  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Super Brilliant I am sorry, but this school was horrible in terms of getting you ready for the real world. In order to be successful for the real world, the university resources should be able to help you land good internships and bring recruiters onto campus. The only job fairs that they had attracted meager recruiters from Enterprise Rent-A-Car to Qualcomm. There was absolutely no heads up for majors outside of the hard sciences. After that I went to Harvard and boy oh boy do they really take care of you. My single advice is if you want your life to not suck and be in a secretary position after college if your major isn't in biology or the other hard sciences... avoid this school like the plague. They keep asking for donations, but really what more money do they need? To keep building ugly monstrosities of concrete or commissioning ugly stupid pieces of art that a pre-school kid could come up with? Seriously, you can do better. Avoid it. Preparedness: F, Reputation: F Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private) Nov 14 2009 Alumnus Male -- Class 2000   Forward  Blog it! Blog about this comment from your webpage or Blog, or MySpace account: Just copy and paste! <script src='http://www.studentsreview.com/active/shared/sr_comment.js?sckey=62267&uid=206'></script> <a href='http://www.studentsreview.com' style='font-size:8pt;'>Data Source: StudentsReview!</a> Rate this comment: Useless (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) Helpful       Save   Electrical Engineering  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Bright I love the campus, some of the people, and some of the courses. But this school has so many negative aspects that it really takes a toll on you. The computer systems they use are riddled with errors. They lost three of my transcripts and could not figure out which they were missing. They also told me they were missing transcripts when they were in there file. The advising people in Muir college are tremendously rude and love to wield there power over your head. The people in financial aid are really nice and care for you. They will force you to take additional courses (2-6) to graduate, depending on the college within ucsd that you are placed. These are courses that are besides the GEs you already have to take and your major courses. The libraries are only open on a limited basis. You can not find parking at all here, and passes are ridiculously expensive (about $700 yr). That said there are a few extremely great people here, and will drop everything to help you. The trick is to find them, I have only found 2 out of the 50,000 people that are here. One thing that really ticks me off is that all the emphasis and money goes to the graduate students. They do not have paid tutors or aid for engineering students. They have tutors for math and programming. Surrounding City: A+, Individual Value: F Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private)  More →  Sep 25 2009 1st Year Male -- Class 2011    Forward  Blog it! Blog about this comment from your webpage or Blog, or MySpace account: Just copy and paste! <script src='http://www.studentsreview.com/active/shared/sr_comment.js?sckey=61016&uid=206'></script> <a href='http://www.studentsreview.com' style='font-size:8pt;'>Data Source: StudentsReview!</a> Rate this comment: Useless (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) Helpful       Save   Political Science  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Super Brilliant Look at the reviewers who are super negative and then try to draw some conclusions. Hmmmm...lotsa Freshman...hmmmm...sitting on their computer in the dorms...googleing to find a support group to back their bitching about...bitching about...about what?...the lack of social life? WALK OUT OF THE DAMNED DOOR FRESHIES! YOU ARE THE PROBLEM AND THE SOLUTION! This is a big campus in a sweet location. If you get out of the house and try to make friends, you will be able to. Hell, if the people who are bitching just got together to bitch they would probably end up having a good time together. It is big and I think it is overwhelming for some people so they become introverted. But if you open up, you will find out that other people are jsut like you and want to have fun. Honestly, if you can't have fun in San Diego then you will not have fun anywhere. I really feel bad that these lame-o's, perpetuating their own problems, bring the reputation down. Guess what kiddies: you ARE the reputation. If your social life is lame, it is because of YOU! Be cooler! Talk to other people! Academically, I have definitely been satisfied. Cutting edge stuff, profs actually running the research that is relevant for class. Yes, TA's teach section, but that is standard college stuff people. And what is wrong with that? They are smart, understand the material, usually younger, sometimes hot... Get off your high horse Freshman and figure it out: nobody is going to spoon feed you info anymore. No one is going to have parties in their parents garage anymore. That was highschool, and this is the big leagues. You have to EARN it! You have to make it happen@ And if you have trouble with class material, has any UCSD student out there ever actually not been able to approach a Prof or a TA for help? I have never been turned down for extra help in 4 years by a prof or TA. In fact, they have to be in office hours, and most of the time they like the company! Jesus! It is sad that these children are such slaves to their environment that they need the outside world to set up a good time for them. If you are a proactive person and you want a great education in the perfect setting, then I would go to UC San Diego. I got into Berkeley - which I think is a great school but I like the sun - and I chose UCSD because of its emphasis on the stuff that matters (science, tech), location, and lack of hippies. If you think this school sucks then I have news for you: you suck. Not that I hate you or I want you to cry, but that I want you to not suck so that you can have a nicer life. Remember: college is just a bunch of people, and it is the attitude of the people that makes or breaks the scene. Blue and Gold, bitches. Education Quality: A+, Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private)  More →  Sep 21 2009 4th Year Male -- Class 2010    Forward  Blog it! 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