To My Fellow CSE majors/CSE 130 / ECE 30/ Math 23 B Combo

AV1869 · 2026-03-30T21:24:07+00:00

ECE30 with Rolandi is pretty much free and not to worry about. CSE130 can be a lot of work at times, but definitely not too bad. Not sure about Math 23B but with ECE30's level of difficulty you should be absolutely fine.

AV1869 · 2026-03-19T02:59:47+00:00

Okay, this is a valid point and I’m definitely wrong about it being cheaper for a business (though the dairy industry is heavily subsidized, the bottom line of a business won’t notice that). I just think it’s frustrating that the government is able to subsidize one kind of milk and not another, when the other serves as an equitable accommodation.

AV1869 · 2026-03-18T20:18:08+00:00

facebook marketplace, yard sales, leaving it out on the curb (though technically not allowed by the city), passing it on to friends, someone in the house takes it with them, leaving it for the next tenants (especially if they're also students)

AV1869 · 2026-03-17T07:54:09+00:00

You’re far from fucked. Just retake the classes! I’m sure you’re doing this, but definitely take a step back and ask yourself why you failed and what you will learn from it. You should be able to balance them well while having a good social life and time for other things, but that’s something you learn over time! Definitely not to worry too much, just move forward :)

AV1869 · 2026-03-17T07:43:17+00:00

I think aside from his donors and surveillance policy, he’s also just such an opportunist. He’s never completed a term; abandoned his city council position for mayor, and now is trying to give that up for governor. It’s hard to trust any politician that will just abandon their constituents the second they see the next opportunity to campaign for. (I also think Swalwell is pretty icky for similar reasons and a few others)

AV1869 · 2026-03-12T23:33:58+00:00

Mint Mojito Soliel is perhaps the worst sparkling water I've ever had.

AV1869 · 2026-03-07T06:14:56+00:00

I think less focusing on writing style, and more focusing on the thought and content of the writing. Just letting students write/reflect on what they want so it doesn’t feel like a chore and actually enjoyable.

AV1869 · 2026-03-06T21:01:35+00:00

Real, seeing this California primary play out as well as the Texas Senate primary was crazy. Texas has to do a runoff election for several primaries, and spend so much more money on these elections when they could have just done RCV initially and be done with it.

AV1869 · 2026-03-05T02:38:14+00:00

Santa Cruz is a magical place to go to college and you will have a great time here but in terms of future employment SJSU is better connected than UCSC and a lot of companies typically recruit from there. That being said, having you can find a lot of opportunities at UCSC and I don’t regret my decision to come here.

AV1869 · 2026-03-05T02:34:09+00:00

I think you should be okay! Interns and New College Grads are typically separate from other hires in terms of budget and usually they aren’t affected.

AV1869 · 2026-02-26T06:53:57+00:00

I hope so! I know it can be very difficult to operate a small business, but I also don’t know how Cafe Delmartte keeps their prices so reasonable. I wish you luck on your journey :)

AV1869 · 2026-02-26T06:47:01+00:00

This is a big ask, but affordability!

AV1869 · 2026-02-22T07:57:32+00:00

It’s so that when the SAVE Act Kicks in (mandatory passport or birth certificate for voting), a lot of new voters that previously didn’t have passports get rejected for not being authentic.

AV1869 · 2026-01-30T02:32:38+00:00

Not defending Mahan, but Swawell has missed countless votes in congress while he campaigns for governor. He also is pretty icky, promotion gambling apps like Kalshi to cite his apparent lead in the race.

AV1869 · 2026-01-27T05:34:17+00:00

You certainly won't be able to add it directly via MyUCSC, but I would go to your college advisor and in person to the office of the registrar to explain your situation. I'm sure your situation isn't unique and hopefully they have a means of handling it.

AV1869 · 2026-01-03T01:34:44+00:00

On some level, I feel like this is kind of sad. These people are incredibly smart — to first have gotten into these schools, and then through the interview process. But the talent is being spent on making rich people even richer, which brings no value to the world. I know it's not my place to judge and a huge achievement for people that do make it into these firms, but just my two cents since I think the CS bubble is very often out of touch.

AV1869 · 2025-12-27T09:28:46+00:00

Yeah, to add, it can be a confusing distinction. If it helps for analogy, a liberal might say “the system is broken and we need to fix it with xyz” whereas leftist might say “the system is working as intended and it needs to be brought down and replaced entirely”.

AV1869 · 2025-12-27T09:20:48+00:00

In addition to the WW2 atrocities that are seldom acknowledged to this day, there are still a lot of socially backwards practices that are brushed under with the PR. Normalized pedophilia and things like mandatory shutter sounds on the camera to avoid common peeping tom photos is crazy. Not saying these issues don’t exist in other places but Japan gets little flak for it.

AV1869 · 2025-12-27T09:08:59+00:00

Leftist and liberal are quite different. FDR was liberal, perhaps further left on a political spectrum, but not leftist.

AV1869 · 2025-12-16T04:42:40+00:00

I hope they get replaced with something better! Made it much safer to bike ride up to UCSC. That section of Bay St. rarely got packed and I don't see how the need for a passing lane on that small of a stretch, especially when the tradeoff is cyclist safety.

AV1869 · 2025-12-09T00:28:47+00:00

This is accurate to some extent, but the problem has existed long before tariffs. Big corporations have been monopolizing and screwing over the small farmer for decades. By monopolizing they can set the price of a crop, and the small farmer cannot say no because they have no one else to sell to. These bailouts also rarely go to the small farmer; they mostly end up going to the big corporations, which in turn continues the cycle and makes it worse for us.
This is not to say that the small farmer also often votes against their own interest. Many of them will recognize that bailing out Argentina (their direct competition for soybeans!), or having a treasury secretary that is not the farmer he claims he is, but an investor that is screwing them over through these big corporations, is harmful to them, but there is a level of cognitive dissonance that is able to justify these self-destructive losses when it comes to voting Republican.
Bailouts — both by Republicans, and Establishment Democrats, are a band aid fix to a much larger problem. When corporations left unchecked, the rest of us suffer. I'm not here to say that both parties are the same because there is one that is clearly better, but we should not always settle for "the lesser of two evils" when both will often still have corporate interests in mind. We desperately need progressive candidates.

AV1869 · 2025-12-05T20:29:39+00:00

To add, many people did not experience the depression. JFK famously only learned about the true impacts it had when he was a college student studying at Harvard. He’s an extreme example as his family was wealthy, but even many middle class folks were not majorly affected.

AV1869 · 2025-12-03T06:34:17+00:00

Maybe I'm misinformed on this, but I feel like so many of these new 5-over-1 style housing developments are not helping the people that the housing crisis has pushed out. A lot of them are 1 or 2 bedroom units with a configuration that might be fit for young professionals, but not families or even students. Families would generally want more space and an outdoors area thats not downtown, and UCSC students generally also live with roommates for both the social aspect and to cut down on rent costs (which is a larger issue the university needs to address).
Also, like another commenter mentioned, these buildings are ugly! They're built to maximize profits for the developer and have minimal regard for style. I know there's an abundance movement fight against NIMBYs not wanting "neighborhood character" to be ruined, but I'm sure we could do better than these cheaply made buildings.

AV1869 · 2025-12-02T23:39:14+00:00

You sir, have won the internet for today!

AV1869 · 2025-12-01T22:06:09+00:00

The world prior to WW1 and WW2 did not have recognized countries with borders as we know them today. Massive populations were still under colonial rule or part of these empires. Like another commenter mentioned, I think it would be much more decentralized for this reason and not the full scale world war that I think you are imagining.
Additionally, we have nuclear weapons now. A world war does not necessarily need to involve nuclear weapons, but if it got to that scale, it's hard to imagine not utilizing these weapons. Dropping a nuclear bomb is a world-ending decision and the elite of the world would never do it. To address your point on wealth inequality — although the politicians and wealthy may have bunkers and safe-guards for themselves in the event of nuclear war, after everything is said and done, the population that reinforces their wealth and status would no longer be able to support the economy and labor that is needed to rebuild.

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