One of the more
prestigous (read:
NERDY)
universities in the
University of California school system. While the
school itself is not exactly in
San Diego, it is called
University of California at San Diego. It is actually situated in
La Jolla where the
rich people make their beach front homes with attached
tennis courts and
baseball fields.
We have a 5
college (soon to be 6 colleges) system where you pick colleges depending on your
general education preferences. For example, most engineers would pick
Earl Warren, because you get off easier on the graduation requirements as far as general ed. goes. For more info on this, go to www.ucsd.edu.
The
school itself is huge. It takes maybe half an hour to walk from one end of
campus to the other diagonally. So if you have two consecutive
classes on opposite sides of the
campus and only 15 (changing to 10 min starting Fall 2002) minutes to walk, tough luck! The
school administration seems to like to expand outward rather than upward. ERC (Eleanor Roosevelt College) is being pushed off to la-la land as they build the 6th college... Unfortunately I am ERC.