Located on an oceanside cliff in
sunny La Jolla, UC San Diego is one of the world'
s top institutions for producing researchers, innovators, and
awkward engineers. It is consistently ranked #1 by Washington Monthly, a magazine that nobody reads. As
California'
s unofficial science department, UCSD research discovered the first evidence for climate
change, the cause of
diabetes, and a colony of endangered ants living in Chancellor Khosla'
s mustache. Its mascot, King Triton, is well-known as the most badass eunuch of all time.
UC San Diego is minutes from most of San Diego'
s world-class attractions. But if you're looking for UCSD students, you'll find them napping at Black'
s Beach wishing they could surf, waiting in line at TapEx, or hiding from social interaction in Geisel Library. Despite not having a football team, students find things to do, like studying for midterms between raves.
UCSD was designed with a unique six-college system, to give freshmen an easy conversation starter. These colleges (Revelle, Muir, Marshall, Warren, Roosevelt, Sixth) are considered
pretty equal, except for Sixth. Campus-wide traditions like the legendary Sun God Festival unite the colleges as
one university.
Out of its 200,000 graduates, UCSD has produced exactly four famous alumni: Nick Woodman, who founded GoPro, and those three interchangeable Asians from Wong Fu Productions. The other 199,996 are all out there somewhere, still complaining about not having gotten into Berkeley.
