Best of Occidental College

Lots of Options

Around Eagle Rock, you'll find an array of available restaurants ready to tantalize your every food fantasy. There are a variety of Asian restaurants, greek food at Spitz, Hawaiian barbecue, Taco Trucks, and of course burger and pizza places. The best thing is that these are all mere blocks away from campus and literally a minute or two away by car. They nearly all offer student discounts (except the food chains) and all serve pretty great food. All in all, there is a lot to eat around Oxy.

Well...Its California

Its sunny and hot at the beginning and the end of the year and most of the days in between are pretty nice. It definitely does get colder during the winter. It also does rain during the winter and at nights it can get pretty cold.

Oxy Touts Its Diversity, but at Times It Seems Disingenous.

Though the campus is quite diverse for a private school, both ethnically and socioeconomically, it seems that Oxy values diversity chiefly as a selling point to prospective students. The "multicultural" dorm on campus is essentially "the hood," in the sense that it is in dire need of renovations. Apparently the school admits black students in numbers that fill their yearly quota.

More concerning is the shifting set of values held by the incoming class this year; there have been multiple instances of racial and heterosexist slurs being directed towards individual students. While it isn't perfect, it is still better than some southern state schools I guess...