University High School versus Northwood High School

I slapped my head 3 times. Now I have to look for Planet of the Apes. UCI ranked bottom on my list in term of the site planning and architecture. The recent housing designed by KTGY and MVE are the worst campus housing that I have ever seen. The 3 story "Crapsman" architecture almost made me lose control of my car on Culver. The only redeeming things are the smart Asian students, Lee Sandwiches, and In and Out.
 
LOL Bk!





How you salvage UCI, Bk? Their new student union is no shining star. . . Would you knock it all down? Or try to add some vintage to it in a different way? Maybe play up the post retro-futur theme?
 
UCI is like the Tomorrowland in Disneyland. The building from the trendy 80's was knocked down for another trendy building and it will be knocked down for another trendy building 15 years from now just like Tomorrowland. Disneyland is always updating it because the futuristic theme falls out of fashion so quickly like your Ipod or Iphone. The classic Snow White Bravarian cottage and Sleeping Beauty Castle will always anchoring the tradition of Disneyland like the traditional campuses I mentioned.
 
<em>The newer schools lack the loyalty of their graduates due the weak student lifestyle identity while attending the school.</em>





Bk - This is a great point. UCs tend to lag behind in terms of alumni donations and support, and I think this is part of the reason. In my experience many UC graduates tend not to have as strong an attachment to the particular campus, especially if they only commuted to go to class - UCLA and Cal are a bit different though because the vast majority of students live on campus for at least a little while. Is it because the big-time sports teams there help unify the campus?





Another thing to consider, in case it hasn't been brought up already. UCSD was built at a time of unrest, and the regents were worried about campus uprisings. That's why there is no real central part of campus - things are spread out to help avoid a major protest. IIRC there's something similar at UCI's park, with it being sloped so that it's harder for protests to take place.
 
<p>Fine, UCI does suck compared to UCLA. I actually attended UCLA for one quarter back in 2001. But as a full grown adult, I don't know of a nicer academic setting in Orange County other than UCI. I think the high schools, community colleges, and Cal States are so "ghetto" compared to UCI.</p>

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<p class="MsoNormal">C’mon guys,</p>

<p class="MsoNormal">Nitpicking academics (yawn!), you’re missing the big picture.</p>

<p class="MsoNormal">In general, UCLA sucks. </p>

<p class="MsoNormal">However, they do have one thing going for them.</p>

<p class="MsoNormal">The Annual Undie run is the best thing that ever happened to that school.</p>

<p class="MsoNormal">Girls running in their skimpy underwear and partying afterward is brilliant.</p>

<p class="MsoNormal">I’ve been pleading the regents of SC to take notice and start an Undie Run. </p>

<p class="MsoNormal">The girls at SC are 300X hotter than girls from UCLA </p>

Fight On!
 
Hehe.. I went to UCI. Not into college sports, so it doesn't matter that I went to UCI.



Anyone watch MTV's dance crew show? Kaba modern came in 3rd place. Woo UCI.



Did you know there is a nuclear reactor at UCI?
 
<p>As someone who graduated from UCI, here are my thoughts.</p>

<p>Architecture: Ugly as hell. I think the campus has gotten uglier (in terms of the buildings) now compared to when I was a student.</p>

<p>Education: Some majors were competitive (like mine in Computer Science), and some were not like most UC's. I doubt you will find Social Sciences majors having the same level of competitve attitudes as those in Bio Sci, Electrical Engineering, etc. I got my piece of paper with my name on it.</p>

<p>Social Life: If you live in Irvine, you will not find a place to club, drink, or loiter. With that said, my social life consisted of spending 12 hour days with friends in the computer lab on weekends coding and eating out of cup-o-noodles, so go figure. </p>

<p>Girls: Most girls that I surrounded myself were study geeks who wore t-shirt and sweats to class everyday. Unless they dressed up, you would never think of them as 'hot'. But then again, when they dressed up, never knew how hot those geeks could look. </p>

<p>Asian population: Is it a negative to have so many asian students? Is USC is not a great school because they have so many whites? Hmm.....</p>

<p>Alumni Association: I wish they would stop calling me. I thought I have given back enough already.</p>

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<p>By the way, does anyone know how much it costs to obtain a duplicate of my diploma? I lost my piece of paper and I think I might have shredded it while moving from my last residence to this one. And yes, they have a reactor. I hated having classes in that building. I was paranoid that I would go sterile. </p>
 
Are the people on this blog so rich and live such lavish lives that they look down upon UCI? I know residents of Newport Beach who are very happy that UCI is so close by. They feel that having such a fine institution nearby could only help with maintaining their property values.
 
<p class="MsoNormal">“Girls: Most girls that I surrounded myself were study geeks who wore t-shirt and sweats to class everyday.”</p>

<p class="MsoNormal">Load up on Axe Body spray, then you’ll be fightin' them off. </p>
 
Ten, I'll agree with you about the girls at USC. . . I remember visiting there while in college, and you are right about that. Otherwise, I"ll take UCLA any day over USC.
 
i dont think wealth has anything to do with it.





uci - good neighborhood


usc - bad neighborhood


harvard - bad


columbia - bad


berkeley - bad


stanford - good


pepperdine - fabulous


duke - bad


uchicago - bad


northwestern - good


yale - bad


penn - bad


ucla - good


cornell - good


princeton - bad


umich - bad


indiana - bad


maryland - bad


rice - good


washing - good


amherst - good





correlation to academics? none. having said that, uci clearly benefits from the Don, two henry's (nicholas and samueli of broadcom), and other successful oc families and business. they have and will continue to make big contributions to the areas most recognized university.





hs_teach - i apologize if any comments come off as degrading. i think all thats been established so far about uci is bad architecture, some competitive programs (like any other school), not much to do in irvine, and unexpectedly, lots of asians!
 
<em>"Are the people on this blog so rich and live such lavish lives that they look down upon UCI?"





</em>Well, it does seem like we have a lot of Trojans on this board... =P. I'm pretty sure it would physically hurt their innards if they don't append "Fight On" to the end of their sentences.





Without UCI, Irvine would not be the master planned "paradise" it is today. There was an interesting program on the local cable channel that talked about the genesis of UCI and how it affected Irvine Ranch's development. Long story short, William Pereira impressed the Irvine Company so much with his design of UCI that they retained his services for the master planning of the various housing "villages" that make up Irvine today. Now, we can quibble about his "Brutalist" style of the UCI buildings and their layout, but I'm betting that most people appreciate his work in master planning Irvine. After UCI, Pereira and his company designed the Transamerica Pyramid in SF and the "Spaceship" Geisel Library in UCSD.





From Wikipedia:





<em>In 1960 <a title="The Irvine Company" class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Irvine_Company">The Irvine Company</a> sold one thousand acres (4 km²) of the Irvine Ranch to the University of California for one dollar, since a company policy prohibited the donation of property to a public entity.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-6"><a title="" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_California,_Irvine#cite_note-6">[7]</a></sup> The University purchased an additional 510 acres (2.1 km²) in 1964 for housing and commercial developments. Much of the land that was not purchased by UCI (which is now occupied by the cities of Irvine, <a title="Tustin" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tustin">Tustin</a>, <a title="Newport Beach" class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newport_Beach">Newport Beach</a>, and <a title="Newport Coast" class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newport_Coast">Newport Coast</a>) is now held under <a title="The Irvine Company" class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Irvine_Company">The Irvine Company</a>. During this time, the University also hired <a title="William Pereira" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Pereira">William Pereira</a> and Associates as the Master Planner of the Irvine Ranch area. Pereira intended for the UC Irvine campus to complement the neighboring community, and the two grew in tandem.</em>
 
as an aside, because i've taken graduate classes there recently i received a letter from uci police this week. apparently the records of the graduate and medical students have been compromised and already a reported 70 cases of current or former students finding that federal tax returns (and refunds taken) have been filed under their SSN. i've always hated how universities need to use your SSN. technically it's illegal but everyone from your school to cable provider to your doctor wants your SSN for no other reason than they're too lazy to come up with their own tracking system. and this is the end result to the consumer.





if any of you here have been former uci students, it sounds like there are quite a few, i would recommend taking a look at this site: <a href="http://www.uci.edu/identitytheftalert/">http://www.uci.edu/identitytheftalert/</a>
 
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<p>Very funny, so true though. This is what SC had to offer </p>
 
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