Don't know much biology

[cyrano]

So initially I was going to ask "UCSJ or U Santa Clara" but since I am the stupid, I searched for UC Santa Cruz and wow that looks attractive too. So, compare and contrast, students, considering that I'm probably looking at continuing either my History studies or my Political Science studies, or both. I'm leery of Santa Clara because it's not in the UC system and thus probably more expensive.

EDIT: Except of course that there is no such thing as UCSJ and it's SJSU which is still a public school just not necessarily in the UC system and thus possibly an intermediate class of expensive.

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[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

I've seen the library, and it kicked my ass. Is it just bad because you have to share it with so many other people, or did the move degrade the quality of the library as well?

[lynthia.livejournal.com]

In terms of a library that is good for study, it has lost some things. One of those is that teachers can no longer reserve texts for their students, as I understand it. The books are part of a public collection and cannot be set aside for student use.

There also used to be more than one library on campus, and they were capable of holding several special collections that I've heard there is not space for anymore. The Steinbeck Center may have found a new home (I hope!), but the Bach Collection is probably gone.

And I thought it was kind of dumb to put the quiet study rooms next to the Children's Section, but that's an issue with the layout, not policy.

Mind you, I've never set foot in the place. When I was a student there, the library was in construction, so maybe some things got fixed after I left.