If UCSD could embody any famous person it’d probably be someone like Screech from Saved by the Bell or Steve Urkel from Family Matters.
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Posted: 3/4/10
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Maybe your school is too expensive. Maybe you finished a two year program and want to pursue a four year degree. Maybe you've given the social scene your best shot but you haven't been able to find your niche. Maybe
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Posted: 11/12/09
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Your first year of college—like your first car, or your first kiss—is something you’ll remember for the rest of your life. It’ll also be over before you know it. Here’s what you’ll need to know to make the most of your classes, your social life and everything in between over the course of your freshman year.
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Posted: 9/19/09
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“The best years of your life” is how most adults describe college, but ask current students and most will tell you day-to-day life is hard work and high-stress—not exactly a walk in the park. Both groups are right. Our experts explain why, and offer up the tips and tricks you’ll need to milk college life for all it’s worth.
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Posted: 9/18/09
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Life in Italy outside of the classroom was endlessly intriguing and entertaining, and the four weeks in Macerata seemed to fly by. Our group consisted of only 13, all Princeton students, and naturally, after living, eating, traveling, and spending four hours in the classroom each day together, the group became very tight-knit, forming friendships that lasted beyond the duration of the program.
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Posted: 11/25/08
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My study abroad program over the summer was coordinated through Florida International University's Honors College. The Honors College is a separate entity within FIU that selects students based on merit (GPA, SAT, community service, extracurricular activities etc.), as well as an essay application in order to be part of the program. The six-credit course taken in Italy is actually one of the ways in which students can complete their fourth-year requirement.
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Posted: 11/20/08
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In retrospect, I still think my pre-departure expectations were reasonable. I was going to Cape Town for a semester, to make lots of African friends, to have the time of my life, and to reconsider my life place in this world. Maybe I should have learned something from my freshman year at Washington University in Saint Louis about thwarted expectations, but there it was: a view of me on some gorgeous beach I'd seen on some Google image search, speaking Xhosa, Afrikkans, and English interchangeably with a posse of beautiful, multiracial friends.
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Posted: 11/3/08
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