UCSB Open House
So I figured that I should write about the Open House since I have nothing better to do.
We left from Jeannie's house around 9:15 with Jeannie, of course, me, my uncle, my aunt and their 9 month old daughter Kaitlin. As we got to Beach Blvd, we had to made a little stop on the side of the road after Kaitlin began crying incessantly. The car ride to the campus was really relaxing. Thank god there wasn't any traffic. I don't remember much, but I do remember having to pass miles and miles of strawberry fields....and state beaches of course.
After approximately 2.5 hours, we managed to arrive on campus and look for parking.
K, the rest are just gonna be random pictures with little commentaries by them :) I'm getting lazy.
Bikes: They're EVERYWHERE. Not even joking. Wow. I've made up my mind that I'm gonna conform and buy a bike for next year. Before going to the open house, I had mixed thoughts about bringing a car and paying for a permit/any other fees, but according to one of our tour guides, bikers have the right of way at UCSB. That means, if you're in your car, you're at a green light and it's your right of way to turn, you must wait for ALL the bikers to safely cross the street first...even if there's one lagging behind...they will NOT wait for you. So.....screw that, I'll buy a bike.
And maybe a neon green one so it won't take me 4589 hours to figure out where I've locked it.
hee It really is a beautiful campus. With a pretty lagoon near the University Center/Bookstore.
Random picture of god knows what.
After my uncle and aunt dropped us off at the campus (they went off to find somewhere to eat and to drive around the neighborhoods near the campus and the beach), Jeannie and I decided to check out some of the dorms. We had enough time to look at the Manzanita, Anacapa, and San Rafael dorms. The Manzanita dorms were by far my favvvv. I felt weird taking pictures of people's dormrooms while they were inside it, so I let Jeannie do it. (i'll post her pictures once i get them). So I'll just post whatever random pictures I happened to take.
Anacapa laundry room. Every floor (approx 54 students) shares it.
Pretty self-explanatory. San Rafael: probably the only one of the 5 resident halls that LOOKS pretty from the outside.
Anacapa bathroom. Each floor shares one and there's only one bathtub in the whole bathroom. heeee.
Anacapa lounge. Pretty much looks like all the other lounges in the other residence halls. I believe it also had a TV (not pictured.....hah that's a VM eppy)
BTW. UCSB overall, reminds me of Dick Casablancas. idk why. it just does.
The Francisco Torres. Ah it's so gorgeous. I seriously thought it was a Hilton or some sort of hotel/resort. But thankfully, Jeannie remembered seeing a picture of it from the internet. I believe it's the only all-freshmen dorms. That explains the 835908395835908305 bikes locked out outside it.
Jeannie has like 358935 more pictures so I'll just end my post with the 'not-so-innocent' side of UCSB. Luckily, the campus itself is relatively peaceful and quiet. However, a few blocks away from the campus, nearer to the beach is where the partiers gather. HEEEEE.
OHHH another thing. I wanted to see what the typical conversation of the UCSBers were so we listened to what random people passing by us were talking about. Here are a couple:
Girl to Friend: You're all up in my grill!....and in between in my legs *giggles with friends*
Guy on Phone: When I went to see him, he was all drugged up. He was like "Ahhhgggg!!!"
hmmm. k, more random pictures:
Houses for the grad students
wheeeeee
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