Originally posted by: EpsiIon
Originally posted by: illusion88
UCSB = party school
Go vist IV on weekend if you dont believe me.
I'm a fourth year Comp Sci major staying around for an MS in a fifth. My roommate for the first two years (and apartmentmate this year) is a ChemE who's in the five year MS in Materials program as well. From what I've gathered, the ChemE program is rather small and close-knit. Apparently the classes are challenging and I haven't heard him complain about professors.
Basically, though, choosing based only on what we say is foolish. I assume at this point you've visited both campuses and received scholarship offers and the like. Weigh these heavily because they really will affect your enjoyment of the place. You'll probably find like-minded people wherever you go, so making a decision based on how much you do (or do not) want to party is also a bad idea.
EDIT: You need a "Make your own decision" option for the poll.
Originally posted by: Rumpltzer
I went from a BS and MS at UIUC to UCSB.
When I went to interview with the UCSB research group, I was a little lost. I asked someone where the EE building was, and they said it was on the fifth floor. One floor?!?!? It really wasn't as bad as that, though, and the engineering campus has grown a lot in the past five years.
I was offered a position at UCSD, and I took UCSB for the better (arguably the best) semiconductor research. UCSD's semiconductor days are (sadly) gone, but the profs are still there.
As an undergrad, I'd probably go with UCSD because it's a larger school, it'll have more resources, more course selection, etc. I mean, UCSB has EE, ChemE, MechE, CompE, MatSE, and what else... do CS, physics and chem count? I audited undergrad EE classes at UCSB. It wasn't all that tough. Lots of whining, and lots of profs giving into students demands rather than failing them. It was weird.
I'd go with the bigger school if you're going for the undergrad education.
If you're going for the lifestyle and chicks, you should at least visit UCSB!
BTW - I wouldn't say chicks are walking around in bikinis at UCSB, but you get sunbathers in the common areas... I don't think it's any different from a lot of other campus quads and stuff.
My old roommate and my squeeze are both still at UCSB. They (independently) told me there are tons of Japanese girls on campus this year. They're not sure why.
You're behind the times.Originally posted by: scott
UCSB has 3 Nobel laureates. Don't know about San Diego.
Originally posted by: scott
If you've mostly lived in bright lights-big city, maybe you'd prefer San Diego. Santa Barbara might be too pastoral for you.
Otherwise, go for UCSB. It's got excellent Chemical Engineering & Physics & Material Science Depts., & Santa Barbara really is heaven on earth. But expensive. Gas, food, rent, everything, expensive. And well worth it.
UCSB has 3 Nobel laureates. Don't know about San Diego.
DXM posted, "do CS, physics and chem count?" Actually, the Theoretical Physics Institute at UCSB is where the big international Physics lumaniaries, like Stephen Hawking, convene every year.
San Diego is overcrowded. Ocean polluted from raw sewage floating up from TJ. Good sunny summer beach-break surfing in warm hepatitus sewage. A cheaper place to live.
Santa Barbara/Goleta has good point & rock-reef break (not many beach-breaks) surfing only in cold water winter, Thanksgiving to Easter. Surf goes flat all sunny summer. Wine country, mountain bike trails, great soccer team, wind surfing, islands with lots of large marine mammals, biggest sea cave on earth, Indian petroglyphs, libraries, museums, sailing, diving, several small colleges, richer than SD County's Rancho Santa Fe.
UCSD is more of a commuter campus, UCSB more of a friendly collegial community. I'd guess the mean age of the students is younger at UCSB, older at UCSD...just a guess. I've been around both campuses a lot.
Santa Barbara County is mostly pristine, except the thin crescent of development right along the coast.
More gorgeous babes than you can believe in Santa Barbara. Vacation destination for lots of foreigners. Santa Barbara probably equals or surpasses far bigger San Diego in cultural stuff. I live in Santa Barbara.
Originally posted by: scott
If you've mostly lived in bright lights-big city, maybe you'd prefer San Diego. Santa Barbara might be too pastoral for you.
Otherwise, go for UCSB. It's got excellent Chemical Engineering & Physics & Material Science Depts., & Santa Barbara really is heaven on earth. But expensive. Gas, food, rent, everything, expensive. And well worth it.
UCSB has 3 Nobel laureates. Don't know about San Diego.
DXM posted, "do CS, physics and chem count?" Actually, the Theoretical Physics Institute at UCSB is where the big international Physics lumaniaries, like Stephen Hawking, convene every year.
San Diego is overcrowded. Ocean polluted from raw sewage floating up from TJ. Good sunny summer beach-break surfing in warm hepatitus sewage. A cheaper place to live.
Santa Barbara/Goleta has good point & rock-reef break (not many beach-breaks) surfing only in cold water winter, Thanksgiving to Easter. Surf goes flat all sunny summer. Wine country, mountain bike trails, great soccer team, wind surfing, islands with lots of large marine mammals, biggest sea cave on earth, Indian petroglyphs, libraries, museums, sailing, diving, several small colleges, richer than SD County's Rancho Santa Fe.
UCSD is more of a commuter campus, UCSB more of a friendly collegial community. I'd guess the mean age of the students is younger at UCSB, older at UCSD...just a guess. I've been around both campuses a lot.
Santa Barbara County is mostly pristine, except the thin crescent of development right along the coast.
More gorgeous babes than you can believe in Santa Barbara. Vacation destination for lots of foreigners. Santa Barbara probably equals or surpasses far bigger San Diego in cultural stuff. I live in Santa Barbara.
Originally posted by: dr150
Originally posted by: scott
If you've mostly lived in bright lights-big city, maybe you'd prefer San Diego. Santa Barbara might be too pastoral for you.
Otherwise, go for UCSB. It's got excellent Chemical Engineering & Physics & Material Science Depts., & Santa Barbara really is heaven on earth. But expensive. Gas, food, rent, everything, expensive. And well worth it.
UCSB has 3 Nobel laureates. Don't know about San Diego.
DXM posted, "do CS, physics and chem count?" Actually, the Theoretical Physics Institute at UCSB is where the big international Physics lumaniaries, like Stephen Hawking, convene every year.
San Diego is overcrowded. Ocean polluted from raw sewage floating up from TJ. Good sunny summer beach-break surfing in warm hepatitus sewage. A cheaper place to live.
Santa Barbara/Goleta has good point & rock-reef break (not many beach-breaks) surfing only in cold water winter, Thanksgiving to Easter. Surf goes flat all sunny summer. Wine country, mountain bike trails, great soccer team, wind surfing, islands with lots of large marine mammals, biggest sea cave on earth, Indian petroglyphs, libraries, museums, sailing, diving, several small colleges, richer than SD County's Rancho Santa Fe.
UCSD is more of a commuter campus, UCSB more of a friendly collegial community. I'd guess the mean age of the students is younger at UCSB, older at UCSD...just a guess. I've been around both campuses a lot.
Santa Barbara County is mostly pristine, except the thin crescent of development right along the coast.
More gorgeous babes than you can believe in Santa Barbara. Vacation destination for lots of foreigners. Santa Barbara probably equals or surpasses far bigger San Diego in cultural stuff. I live in Santa Barbara.
^^
The man knows what he's talking about.
However, my ignorant ass says UCSD has the better rep for employability. UCSB has a hell of a time getting rid of its party school rep.
Originally posted by: Ranger X
UCSD. The hiring companies won't know which school has the better chemical engineering program. UCSD carries a better name and the program there won't be that much worse than the program at UCSB.
Originally posted by: DanTMWTMP
Sewage what sewage? This is La Jolla, not National City..wtf are you talking about.