University of California-Los Angeles Top Questions

What's the one thing you wish someone had told you about freshman year?

Jeneice

I wish someone could have told me how to study efficiently for midterms and finals.

Anjelina

You will get less sleep than ever before.

Yvette

I wish I would have believed in myself more, and that I was worthy of attending UCLA. I believed that I was accepted for being a female, first generation college student, single mother, and hispanic.

Gabrielle

This is no fault of the school, but I wish I had known that I could take more classes outside of my major earlier on. For some reason, I thought I was limited because of either time or credits. In retrospect, I could have mapped out which courses I absolutely had to take and when so I could plan to take non-major classes around them. I would have sooner realized my interests in other subjects, and could have double-majored or minored. Sadly, I lacked the financial means to remain another year in order to do that.

Niyati

It is a huge school that takes months to adjust too and be comfortable around your new friends. Also, competition is rough and you will have to work harder than ever to have an active social life as well as academic success but it will all be worth it.

Sue

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Christina

I wish that I would have known that it wasn't that easy to move and find a job.

Tanya

I wish that I had known more about the unit cap and other ways to manage my course load. It has been challenging to try to find someone to explain to me how to effetively plan my classes so as to make the most of my time here, so having more access to that kind of information would have been nice.

Genevieve

I wish I would have known more about the summer bridge program that is offered to transfer students.

Ruiting

1. How important it is to go to office hours, to talk to the professors and teaching assistants and build a relationship. 2. Time management! It is best to wake up and start your day early, so you can get work done. 3. Use the resources provided on campus, such as the counselors, the writing center, tutoring services offered by peers in various subjects, the scholarship resource center, the career center.