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In Reply to: RE: What about the JC route? posted by Sibelius on January 5, 2025 at 00:13:18:
In 2010 and 2011, I worked at Stanford Student Housing. Like other full-sized universities, Student Housing was under the larger RDE (Residential & Dining Enterprises). Each year, the RDE's from the Pac-12 schools attend a conference. The host of this conference changes each year. They exchange what I feel are sensitive data.
But anyway, at the 2010 conference, the contingent from UCLA said they were eagerly waiting for the light rail to/from Santa Monica to open. That would enable a larger percentage of UCLA's students to commute. Also at this time, UCLA was "getting with the program," and converting double rooms to triple occupancy. So you are probably correct, in that no "new" housing buildings were added.
At that time, I did visit my alma mater, UC Santa Cruz. Here at Stevenson College, spotting kids on laptops felt strange. When I was a student, the campus was in its initial phase of dial-up. CPUs and laptops cost more than my then-dream speaker, the Thiel CS1.2. And yes, I was crestfallen, that rooms which had been, for decades, double occupancy, were now triples. Each room has a bunk on one side, and a loft bed on the other.
Like many of my friends, my wife went to UC Berkeley. Then and is now, only freshmen were guaranteed housing. After that, everyone is on her own. My wife hated commuting to campus. My wife argued that, by commuting, she didn't get the full Cal experience. Moreover, your health and sleep patterns are affected.
My last two years at UCSC, I lived in the Crown-Merrill apartments. But most of my friends lived off-campus. That's why they would stop over, between classes; or just bring an overnight bag, and crash, especially if they had an early morning class the next day.
During my years at UCSC, the student body was 52/48 female/male. It was close enough to 50/50, but you did notice that there were slightly more girls than boys. I do not know about UCLA, but I've been told that U.S. universities are now 58/42 female/male.
The Grateful Dead archives are held in a small room at UCSC's McHenry Library. During the 1989-90 school year, my roommate Josh, without telling me, would not come home on a weeknight. I was worried. And then he'd come back the next day (or evening), reeking of marijuana. I asked where he was, and he matter-of-factly shrugged that he had gone to a Grateful Dead concert. I asked why he didn't ask me, and he answered, "Since you're clean, I didn't think you'd be interested."
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Follow Ups
- No new housing - Luminator 00:49:45 01/05/25 (3)
- RE: No new housing - Sibelius 10:23:42 01/05/25 (2)
- I've only been to UCLA a few times - Luminator 12:15:18 01/05/25 (1)
- RE: I've only been to UCLA a few times - Sibelius 14:08:17 01/05/25 (0)
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