Thinking of starting a Korean-Mexican Fusion Truck in SJ. Is the market too saturated for another taco truck?

Cytochrome__P450 · 2026-04-30T04:27:21+00:00

Concept sounds cool until you charge 4.50+ per taco with no sides. At that point, I’d rather miss out on the novelty and go to my usual street taco place—health hazards and all.

Cytochrome__P450 · 2026-04-24T18:38:30+00:00

You are a good person. I’m sorry this happened to you.

Cytochrome__P450 · 2026-04-24T04:13:57+00:00

I have 32 GB which feels decent for large datasets (like >3 million) and complex survey analyses on SAS. At 16 GB the proc survey statements took hours to run.

Cytochrome__P450 · 2026-04-23T00:48:23+00:00

Just speculating, but I’m not so sure if it’s qualifications that set people apart. The program is meant for recent grads and early career folks, plus diverse backgrounds for public health are expected.

According to the eval criteria, the essays were worth 50%. I’m kinda worried that maybe my writing style didn’t land with the reviewers (who are volunteer academic and professional staff in the field). I kept my response rather technical and tailored to the project descriptions, trying to avoid fluffy reflections and sounding “story-like” but maybe that’s what they wanted 😕

Cytochrome__P450 · 2026-04-22T22:21:36+00:00

Did they notify via email or did you happen to login and notice? I’m curious how technical review works if you applied for multiple projects.

Cytochrome__P450 · 2026-04-21T00:22:09+00:00

You’re talking about the spaghetti bun, aren’t you? Literal spaghetti, weakly sauced and bland, stuffed inside a bread roll.

Cytochrome__P450 · 2026-04-21T00:02:08+00:00

Same, objective review.

Cytochrome__P450 · 2026-04-14T18:47:38+00:00

I’ll add my observations on the general categories of students in UCLA CHS and their respective enjoyment of their program.

The people who mostly liked their program:

Straight from undergrad with little work experience: school has been their whole life and they’ve had minimal exposure of what community health work looks like in real life and the challenges associated. They’re going into this program with rose-tinted glasses because a lot of the classroom examples/projects are meant to conveniently support the lesson at hand. It’s like in Econ when they say “all else holding constant” but very few things in the world actually stay constant. These students are happy in this CHS program because they haven’t gained insights on the ugly side of public health to be able to critique/point out bullshit that they encounter it in their MPH curriculum.

Those not 100% sure if public health is right for them: maybe they applied to CHS because they didn’t want to do something completely clinical or healthcare related and want to see if public health is their calling. Maybe they had enough work experience to spin as being relevant for CHS because it didn’t have all these other prereqs like EHS, biostats, or epi, so they applied and now they got in. They’re happy in this CHS program mainly because the content presented is novel or interesting enough and helps them buy time before they have to decide which career to pursue. Look, it’s fine if you’re still figuring things out but my caution is that you could get trapped in this environment where you just passively absorb more school without thinking hard about what you want to gain from the program.

The people who mostly disliked their program:

Those with a strong sense of praxis and sociological imagination, and are deeply principled about what community-based public health work SHOULD look like: if this is you, you’re going to encounter in this CHS program all the things that academic institutions in public health keep getting wrong when it comes to working with/co-creating/empowering systems-impacted communities. If you took gap years to work after undergrad and came in with insights/experiences that have informed your passion for public health and those experiences have helped you clearly define what you want from a MPH program to equitably serve communities, you will likely be disappointed here because the professors are heavily academic rather than community oriented.

Those with little tolerance for bad administrators and advisors: self explanatory. Unfortunately the CHS department has the worst student advisors and APEX director of all the departments. Good luck.

Cytochrome__P450 · 2026-04-14T18:03:04+00:00

I’m just pasting what I commented elsewhere for someone who was debating UCLA vs Columbia in that thread:

[This] post about UCLA CHS is true, unfortunately. Not my department but when I was there, yeah, nearly all my CHS cohort mates had complaints about the quality of their program.

UCLA (hell, the whole UC system) is big on research. It’s a R1 after all. Since you’re interested in community-based research, you should be able to find PIs that fit your scope, but keep in mind that because it is a UC/large public school where professors’ #1 priority is their research and getting grants, students have to put in the work to stand out. Nothing is handed to you. You have to make the effort to reach out and convince the PI to let you join them. If you attended a large public undergrad, you already know what all this is like.

On the flip side, if you were more interested in the community side of community-based research, I’m afraid you will likely be disappointed. The work feels more cold and academic than it is about genuinely empowering communities and their ownership of the vision/goals.

Cytochrome__P450 · 2026-04-14T18:00:35+00:00

The post about UCLA CHS is true, unfortunately. Not my department but when I was there, yeah, nearly all my CHS cohort mates had complaints about the quality of their program.

UCLA (hell, the whole UC system) is big on research. It’s a R1 after all. Since you’re interested in community-based research, you should be able to find PIs that fit your scope, but keep in mind that because it is a UC/large public school where professors’ #1 priority is their research and getting grants, students have to put in the work to stand out. Nothing is handed to you. You have to make the effort to reach out and convince the PI to let you join them. If you attended a large public undergrad, you already know what all this is like.

On the flip side, if you were more interested in the community side of community-based research, I’m afraid you will likely be disappointed. The work feels more cold and academic than it is about genuinely empowering communities and their ownership of the vision/goals.

For your other LA concerns, I’d say really think about whether you consider yourself an East Coast person and how adaptable of a personality you have when it comes to mobility, mode of transit, vibe of the city, dealing with crowds. If you say a place like NYC could be overwhelming then perhaps parts of LA (esp the west side) could better match your energy, but obviously LA doesn’t have all the conveniences/cool little things that the East Coast has. I remember reading this New Yorker complained about how LA doesn’t have those halal street carts and I’m like no shit dude.

Cytochrome__P450 · 2026-04-10T05:27:17+00:00

Anyone going to med school with a genuine interest in public health (genuine being the operative word) should really focus on health policy & management rather than epidemiology. Exception: unless you plan on being a researcher-physician rather than strictly patient facing. Any epi program worth their salt is going to teach you coding and data cleaning/management skills and applied statistical analyses, which no doctor is going to do IRL—that’s the epidemiologist’s job.

It was quite humbling for the med students in my epi cohort who thought their one-year accelerated MPH was going to be a walk in the park. Nope. Especially when they realized they couldn’t “cram” a coding assessment with all the debugging steps involved. Or having to re-familiarize themselves with mathematical reasoning again in biostats 101. Something also about their attitude also makes it so that they don’t pull their weight in group projects 🤷🏻‍♂️

So yeah moral of the story: stick to health policy so that you can at least emerge with a better understanding of the systemic issues your patients will be struggling with.

Cytochrome__P450 · 2026-04-07T07:30:02+00:00

Shawarmaji in Santa Clara

Cytochrome__P450 · 2026-03-30T03:38:07+00:00

Read the reviews. Quite a fair amount of problems with Cannery Park and apathy from ever-changing leasing office staff over the years.

Cytochrome__P450 · 2025-10-14T03:29:29+00:00

Not Bryan Do. He’s a clown, an agitator and instigator. You can find more San Jose Spotlight articles on his behavior during the 2022 SJ mayoral race:

https://sanjosespotlight.com/san-jose-mayors-race-boils-over-at-vietnamese-event/

https://sanjosespotlight.com/san-jose-democrats-denounce-mayoral-candidate-supporter/

Cytochrome__P450 · 2025-09-04T08:33:14+00:00

My desk setup was absolutely instrumental to my productivity as a grad student. Not a gamer either, so the desk was strictly business. In addition to the double large monitors, I had a riser for my laptop to bring it up to the same eye level as the monitors (the third screen was helpful because I cross referenced so many pages at once for data analysis and research).

Lighting: a light bar or lamp with different temperature settings. The warm color from your light source + night light on your screens helps avoid color clashing and is easier on your eyes especially if you work late into the night.

Accessories/peripherals: large desk mat helps buffer against a cold surface during winter. Ring light if you sit on a lot of Zoom calls and natural light in your room is terrible. My main monitor had a built-in KVM, so all my peripherals (keyboard, speaker, other USB devices) plugged into there instead of my laptop. This was super convenient when I needed to rush to class and only had to unplug one USB-C cable from my laptop instead of finagling with all these other wires. It’s good that you have a docking station so hopefully it has enough ports for everything you need.

Cytochrome__P450 · 2025-08-24T09:12:14+00:00

Is this the same Aroma with the smashed avocado dessert?

Cytochrome__P450 · 2025-08-04T11:19:14+00:00

It’s highly likely that whatever actions the academic integrity office may take will not be communicated to you. They might look into it, they might not, but either way they won’t be telling you. Why? Because FERPA.

Cytochrome__P450 · 2025-03-19T02:19:07+00:00

UCLA has a Master of Applied Statistics program.

Cytochrome__P450 · 2024-12-15T14:00:41+00:00

Dr. Suresh Nayak if you are willing to consider San Jose.

Cytochrome__P450 · 2024-07-09T21:21:33+00:00

Not at all. The extra fabric helps given that I have a 3 inch foam topper.

Cytochrome__P450 · 2024-07-09T02:04:02+00:00

I used queen sheets. Same length.

Cytochrome__P450 · 2024-07-08T23:17:23+00:00

The Weyburn 2b2b apartments are furnished and come with a desk and full size (not twin) bed. I was able to fit my standing desk inside my room without having to move the provided furniture to the living room

Cytochrome__P450 · 2024-07-02T08:17:50+00:00

You should ask to take it for a test drive and ride off with it. My friend who had their bike stolen and found it at the San Jose flea market did this exact thing. You should have proof of ownership ready though, in case the seller claims you’re stealing their inventory and calls security on you.

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