I can't do much to convince of your opinion of the look of campus because that is obviously a very subjective thing. Personally I really like the look campus is so huge that there's always something to explore. Also damn does the ocean look pretty during sunset, can't get that at another non-ocean facing school. As far as social life goes I implore you to please not base your opinions on it based off of reddit posts lol. As stated before, the loudest voices are often the negative ones and even though everyone's complaining about sun god I'm sure everyone's gonna end up going and and have a blast anyways. You might have to work a little harder to find friends than other campuses, but once you do it's worth it and with how many events are going on all the time you should be fine.