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neurosci
University of California - Santa Cruz '13
Majoring in Neuroscience
Member since 10/3/2011
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Nice and Quiet With Families, Dont Expect Wild Partying
The pros of living off campus are that its usually nice and quiet, and the town is pretty small so you are close to everything like the beach and downtown. Houses are almost always available and you can usually find what your'e looking for. Typically it is very safe save for one or two areas. The cons are that property is pretty expensive compared to other universities towns in northern CA, and that since Santa Cruz is full of old people and young families, its VERY hard to have a fun party without the cops coming. Its way better than living on campus though, the only downside to that being that you have to use the metro to get to class or buy a parking pass.
Oct 03, 2011
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Weed Smokers and Acid Trippers...But Sober People Too
There is a huge drug scene here if you want to get into it. Almost everyone drinks on the weekends and a lot of people casually smoke weed. In the dorms weed seems to be the drug of choice. At electronic music events that sometimes happen downtown you'll often see people on E . If you decide to go hiking through upper campus on the weekends and stray off the beaten paths you'll likely encounter freshman experimenting with LSD or mushrooms. Several dorms are notorious for their drug use (Porter, Kresge) and in the others the amount of people using varies. I'm a third year that has experimented in highschool so I dont mess around with that stuff anymore. But I've encountered everything here from pot to mushrooms to opium to nitrus oxide.
Basically, theres a very large underground drug scene thats very easy to get involved with, but if you dont want to have anything to do with it everyone respects that and you'll just as easily find friends with the same interests
Oct 03, 2011
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Terrible
Basically it costs $400+ for a parking pass in the remote lots. This means you drive up to campus, HOPE you can snag a spot, and even if you do you still have to take a loop bus up the hill to class. It pretty much sucks unless you are willing to pay for a good pass or live on campus
Oct 03, 2011
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