Cheap-n-Ghetto

Introduction
For people considering UCR as their "backup," stop! This school is G-to-the-Hetto It feels like every class is the AP class in High School that let some stupid kids in. They recently painted the grass green here out of desperation to attract new students, if that tells you anything.

Campus Life and Social Life
There IS no life on campus. I commute, but even for the kids living on campus, I hear the parties suck. Unless you can forge a friendship with someone who has a car and actually get out and do something fun somewhere ELSE, you're not going to have much fun at UCR. Academics
Academics are okay. The professors are pretty knowledgable. It's really the students who make you feel like you're way too smart to be in every class. You'll get A's easily enough, that's for sure, but what's an A worth if you're not going to get anywhere with it?

Student Body
GHETTO. Everyone smokes, but otherwise it still feels like high school. The ratio of hot people to nerds is ridiculously small. Good luck getting laid with anyone you'd want to have lay you.

In Closing...
In closing, one more point to make: nothing works on campus. The electical doors always break and there's so much construction that you can't take the same path to your classes two days in a row. That's the case for most schools, or so I hear, but we won't even have a Commons till 2007 or 2008. What the F is that? The machinery in classrooms always malfunctions. Ghetto, ghetto, ghetto.