University of California San Diego

As we get closer in graduating high school, many students our age may start to be thinking about what colleges to go to and where to look. A recent ranking showed the University of California San Diego as number one for the fifth year in a row. I was fortunate enough this summer to have visited this college and look at the campus and walk around it with a tour guide while she told us about what UCSD has to offer. It's about a 10 minute walk to the beach from campus (to the La Jolla Cove). 

An interesting fact about UCSD is a collection of six colleges- Earl Warren, Eleanor Roosevelt, John Muir, Revelle, Thurgood Marshall, and lastly Sixth college. On the tour, our guide made sure that you can major in all that UCSD has to offer at any of the colleges, however each of the colleges have different ways to earn your major, for example Warren focuses on three aspects- Social, Intellectual, and Professional compared to John Muir where they focus more on an individual and accommodate their work/study habits as well as their interests. 

On campus there are many restaurants/ fast food options, including a Burger King inside of the building. I ate at a Greek restaurant which I had a gyro (I must say it was pretty good). There's also a huge, eight story library which is designed to look like hands holding a book. My tour guide told us that the first couple levels are louder than the other levels so the best place to study is the eighth level in the library because it's extremely quiet. Near the library are two cool objects. One is a statue of Theodore Geisel, also known as Dr. Suess. That library was designed the way it was because of him so they made a statue in honor of him. The other cool object near the library is a tree known as 'The Singing Tree' that plays the most random noises and songs. 

Me on the stage where one of the head councils lectured to us about the qualifications they look for when they accept students to their university.