Academics Suck!

Introduction
I chose it because it was close to home. After a while, though, I realized I really needed my independence and I needed to move away from family for a while. That's still a work in progress.

Also, I chose it because it sounds like a good school. However, I do remember one professor once saying that the UCLA professors don't really get paid for teaching... just for research. So they can be the crappiest professors ever, and you can't do a thing... unless they molest you.

Campus Life and Social Life
Social life is pretty okay. I stayed away from parties most of the time because I was really trying to work here. When you move into the dorms, you get to choose between different Dorm themes like "Academic Enhancement", "Great Outdoors", and/or "Foreign Language Tables." I checkmarked these... and found that the dorms were nothing but a place to stay near college. No special programs that really try to reach out to you.

Now then... the dining halls. Supposedly UCLA has the highest rating college food in the country. DON'T BE FOOLED!!! This is what I have discovered from experience: During the summer, the variety of fruits and food in general is awesome. Why? Because that's when there are lots of students from foreign countries and other schools (and high school... their target). As soon as Fall kicks in... you're screwed. All there is god damned apples, bananas, and oranges. That's all there is. And the food sucks. It tastes horrible. There's stuff with Italian names... but honestly, there's nothing much Italian about this food. It's generally just meat with low-rating spices and a side of low-rating food from the carbohydrate group. Advertisement
Academics
Yeah, some professors are great. They do care about the ratings they get at the end of the quarter. Others don't give a crap, I guess counting on the fact that they might be pretty indispensable to the University's profit from all the research they make. In all my time here, I only knew one TA who was pretty awesome. That dude really cared.

Departments? Hmmm... I'd say they all suck. I would have wanted a program that lets me pick my classes a lot more liberally. They all want you to be exclusive to them and dedicated your life to them... they thus steal away a lot of your initial potential.

Student Body
The students are from every corner of the world. You're never really able to socialize unless you're at a party or before a class... and then, you almost never get to make good friends with them; unless they're in the dorms.

In a school of 30,000 people, there's lots of students who must be into every type of imaginable thing. So that should be enough said.

I'm a pretty liberal guy. And I expressed this openly on my university profile. And then some transfer student all the way from Oregon sent me a threat, because what I thought didn't agree with him. So yeah... there's every type of student here who's into every type of different thing.

In Closing...
If you get into a University based on a personal statement only... don't do it. Unless you really are prepared for loads of work.

Also, do what you want. Just because it's a "university", doesn't mean it's for everyone. Honestly. I'm sick of people who think that way. Even my counselor said this.

Also, maybe take a year off before going anywhere. Get a damn life.