University of California-San Diego Top Questions

UCSD is known for their engineering and medical programs which leads people to assume that all the students are nerdy, geeky, and lack a social life. The infamous "Triton eye" is not exactly a stereotype, but is apparently something ALL UCSD students are diagnosed with. haha. Supposedly we are a school filled with ugly people who only study and the "triton eye" is a condition where we start to think ugly people are good looking and attractive. SO UNTRUE!! UCSD is just like any other school, we party ( just not during midterms and finals), we study heavily (in our amazing library), and we hang out on our free days. Since UCSD has 6 different colleges within the University, students come up with stereotypes for each school. For example, Revelle college has an insane amount of G.E's and focus on math and science, we think of them as the smart, nerdy ones. While Muir College on the other hand has the least requirements, we label them the party kids.

The stereotypes of students at my school is that they are all super busy and have no time to enjoy their life. This stereotype is false. While students here do spend alot of time doing schoolwork, this does not keep them from having a social life.

Mostly asian and that the all of the guys develope something called "triton eye."

The Stereotype of UCSD students are that they are super studious with no social life. This stereotype is true for a lot of students here, but if you want asocial life there are plenty of clubs, activities, dances, and concerts to entertain yourself with and go out with friends.

Asians, ugly, boring

Well aside from people thinking that UCSD stands for "UC Socially Dead" instead of UC San Diego, the general stereotype of the people from our school is antisocial, nerdy, awkward, and laidback. hahaha But to be honest, I wouldn't be able to necessarily say that it's not true. I'm sure every school has their fair share of antisocial, nerdy, and awkward people. But what I generally see are super laid back people and awkward people. But the awkward people are generally in their labs anyways, and the super laid back people are generally out partying or surfing. Oh, and there's a handful of super sweet people that are involved in religious clubs on campus. Just like any school though, we have our fair share of cool people, nerdy people, laid back people, potheads, jocks, bros, and nice people, etc etc. It's a UC, and there's a diverse group of people here. The only issue is you need to be social and go out to meet everyone. So I recommend dorming, if you can, the first two years. UCSD is a pretty big school, and it may require a bit more of an effort to meet others, 'cause you might have to walk farther than other schools. It takes me about 20 minutes to walk leisurely from one side of the school to the other. However, this was because I used to live on campus. Generally it takes me 8-12 minutes to walk fast paced from one class to another.

UCSD has been nicknamed UCSociallyDead due to the fact that the school has very low student diversity. However, this nickname could not be more wrong! If you are a social and laid-back kind of person, finding fun ways to fill your time will definitely not be a problem. Sometimes it's the simple task of knowing where to look and how to listen. If you can do that, you'll find that parties are all over the place.

The most common stereotype at UCSD is that it is an Asian school. This stereotype is not accurate. Our school is very diverse with students from all over the world. We have many international students and other students from different types of cultures and ethnicities. Another stereotype is that our school is "socially dead." This is completely not accurate. Even though our curriculum is packed into a 10 week quarter, we find time to do many other campus activites. We have over 50 clubs and extracurricular activities on and off campus. We have different types of sorrorities and fraternities that also include professional based types of fraternities and sorrorities. We also have a Sun God festival each year, which includes, games, food, and a concert featuring different music artists such as Drake, Wiz khalifa, Jimmy Eats World, and many more popular artists. We try to make our college experience as fun as it can be while still maintaining a great academic education.

Well aside from people thinking that UCSD stands for "UC Socially Dead" instead of UC San Diego, the general stereotype of the people from our school is antisocial, nerdy, awkward, and laidback. hahaha But to be honest, I wouldn't be able to necessarily say that it's not true. I'm sure every school has their fair share of antisocial, nerdy, and awkward people. But what I generally see are super laid back people and awkward people. But the awkward people are generally in their labs anyways, and the super laid back people are generally out partying or surfing. Oh, and there's a handful of super sweet people that are involved in religious clubs on campus. Just like any school though, we have our fair share of cool people, nerdy people, laid back people, potheads, jocks, bros, and nice people, etc etc. It's a UC, and there's a diverse group of people here. The only issue is you need to be social and go out to meet everyone. So I recommend dorming, if you can, the first two years. UCSD is a pretty big school, and it may require a bit more of an effort to meet others, 'cause you might have to walk farther than other schools. It takes me about 20 minutes to walk leisurely from one side of the school to the other. However, this was because I used to live on campus. Generally it takes me 8-12 minutes to walk fast paced from one class to another.

A common stereotype at my school is that students are too focused on academics. And not enough on fun! A certain caliber of student is accepted into this university but that doesn't mean all of the life and excitement has been drained out in the process. Though we get down to business and have killer science and engineering programs, we also like to get down in our spare time. There are weekly concerts at The Loft, Porters Pub, RIMAC Arena and any spare bit of grass as well as several places to buy beer and wine on campus. You won't find tailgate parties or frats boys stumbling around, but if you are friendly yourself and do a little searching each person can find his or her niche at the school whether it be the art weirdos in Mandeville or the international kids in ERC or the surfs cats heading out West to Blacks Beach.