Word: ucla
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...freshman year of college consisted of fraternity parties, Saturday afternoons spent shopping at Neiman Marcus, weekday trips to the beach, and 75-degree weather in the middle of February. I should probably also mention that my freshman year of college was spent at UCLA...
Strolling through the yard to my philosophy class, I think back on my first year as a Harvard undergrad. One might say that it is a far cry from my freshman year at UCLA. This is most prevalent when I notice that it is five below outside, and I remember that I had to ask my roommate for help because I did not know what a winter wardrobe consisted of up until about 15 months ago. Undeniably, there were ups and downs of my first year. It was often difficult to know that I had no blocking group because...
...assistance in picking courses and that the advisors are bad. Seeing as I transferred from a school with 16,000 undergraduates, was often closed out of classes required for my major three times in a row, and the term advisor wasn’t really a part of the UCLA vocabulary, I am quite happy with a concentration advisor and an Allston Burr Senior Tutor— not to mention the 15 other tutors in the House there to offer help. A friend of mine once complained that picking classes himself was too difficult and that there should be someone...
...quite certain it was not because of the party scene. Coming from a school where large frat parties on Thursday nights is the norm, I can tell you that drunken debauchery at one school is just about the same as drunken debauchery at the next—except at UCLA people can actually dance and you have a little better shot of finding someone attractive when you have drunk goggles on to deceive you. Try not to be too disappointed with the Harvard party scene, because frankly, if you had wanted to party all day you would have gone...
...need look no further than the Tigers. Currently the only team in the group with a losing record, Princeton is far from a pushover, as it was undefeated in the Ivy League last year and battled all the way to the semifinals of the NCAA Tournament before losing to UCLA...