Guys I literally cannot find any asians around Merced, where are my peopleee? 🇯🇵🇵🇭

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it's my first year and I'm at 15 units rn, I'm debating on adding another engineering course but I'm unsure ( it would be the ENGR 057 that's already on there for some reason) major is aerospace credits: junior level

am I doing too much or should I add it on there.

Hello, I am a Spring 2027 transfer student and I am struggling to chose between the cost of living off campus and on campus. I don't have a car so I would have to use the bus to get everywhere, including clinics/hospitals for volunteering. But the housing off campus would save me thousands of dollars.

On Campus housing is very expensive even for a Quad room where you share with four people, and on top of that you have to get a meal plan. But that means I don't need to buy a car or be worried about the bus schedule to get to school.

Do you think it is worth the cost to live on campus, or should I just struggle living off campus to save costs? My parents have suggested to start on campus for one semester to adjust, but i still think it's really expensive to where I have to take out like 5k in loans.

Please help!

please like I just need a fun book to read my dumbass only brought one i need a fun book do college libraries even carry fiction that isn't a classic? Please someone tell me how to get a fun book im already going to the county library but I got lost last time....

My child is looking at UC Merced, but they specifically don’t want a party school. I have told them that there will be partying at every school, but is UC Merced less, way less, more, way more than average?

got an email saying I need a mac or pc but all i have is an tablet. I could get a keyboard and a mouse to make it function more like a computer but would that be sufficient?

keep in mind im not a stem major so i dont need high end functions, but i still need it to work. I need portability, battery, and efficiency

If not my tablet, what are some laptops that can do the bare minimum to help me pass my courses? I need it to last me my college years but also i dont really care about extra functions unless theyre going to help me be more efficient with my work

thank you

second day on campus so i’m a little nervous. i’m just curious if there are others like me or if there’s a club i could join later on. i’m a trans dude and majoring in psychology, i like indie games, guitar, and art :)

Give me food ideas lunch and dinner for a college student who doesn't get the time to take a shit,eat,or breathe because I have to study every fucking millisecond.

I was wondering if any students have been there yet. Is it open for students to visit on their own, or do you need to go through a class, tour, or reserve program? I’d also be interested to hear what it is like and how you get there.

Apologies for the title, dont know how to word it.

My son since middle school has his eyes on UC Berkeley and wanted to take a comp engineering major. Sadly he didnt get in, even his 2nd choice Cal Poly. Nothing against UC Merced and I even encouraged him to try it. He said he'll go to CC and transfer to UCB after 2 years. Do you think he's right? I need help to encourage him to go to UC Merced.

Thanks in advance.

Dorming at UC Merced and I got a new pc during the summer which broke down so im depressed since I just got it and I saved up for nearly a year so was wondering if there was an like IT guys or anyone in general who knows how to fix these sort of things. Im broke rn but I have a on campus job so I should get some money soon after I go back. Im willing to pay for it to get something replaced as long as theyre not scamming me or whatever. Reason im asking is because I dont have a car and going to best buy and asking them to replace it after doing research will probabaly set me back $500 dollars which is almost half the price I spent on this pc. The pc wont power on and I suspect its something to do with the psu and i consider myself a computer guy but if the issue was with the software I could fix it on my own but im clueless when it comes to hardware. So if anyone could help me out when the school semester starts would be great.

Has anyone been able to get the UC Merced Amtrak discount recently? I tried adding the discount code listed on the UCM website but either the price stays exactly the same or the code doesn’t work at all.
Is the discount still active, or is there a different code or process we have to use now?

I’m debating wether i should stay in calculus or go into pre calc (math 5), I want to switch because i only took geometry and algebra 1&2 in highschool but senior year I didn’t take math at all. i’m a freshie taking calc 1 now in college and idek what’s going on. I only know the basic things like graph wise but other than that, i’m completely lost. I want to switch but my friends are telling me not to, that you don’t want to take calc 1 your sophomore year for whatever reasons and just not to switch so i’m currently debating if i should switch or not. If i heard right, i only take math 5 for the first semester and then transition back to calc 1 the second semester when I am ready. Plus my teacher even recommended it to us to switch if we don’t understand what is going on in class, because she doesn’t want us to suffer in calculus for not switching

Hi I'm an upcoming highschool senior and have been looking at UC Merced for a good while since I've gone here on two occasions and loved how everything looks . Im in the automatic admission program thing for Merced meaning I am legible to be accepted if I decide to apply automatically or something along those lines. I really want to go after two years in community college but I wanted to know if the finacial aid is good or not since i have no college fund or anything which is ok ,im a first generation chicano student who is in dual enrollment for just my juinor year and senior so im pretty sure i might qualify for a bit of college credit. I wanted to know if anyone has a site similar to me and how much you paid for college ,I do think if I were to choose merced i would have to move because its an hour awah from me, would it be better to find another type of housing or live on campus , again i fo expect myself to have a bit saved up since im looking to work throughout my senior year and looking at scholara. Any tips or experiences from people's tution would help. Thanks 🙊

Im a first year transfer for aerospace engineering who really wants to go into my Ph.D. program at a uc, preferably Berkeley.

Im trying to get into research, and I literally can not find anything. I've signed up for CoLab. there isn't much on there. I only have 2 years here at the uc, and I want to make the most of it.

Has anyone here actually taken part in research? What is it like? What's the time commitment?

I was scoping sites to go to Yosemite next month, and I looked at the lakes near UC Merced. They're all 30-40 minutes away from campus: Eastman Lake is 30ish minutes away, Turlock Lake is 30ish minutes away, Lake McClure is 40ish minutes away, Modesto Lake is 40ish minutes away, and Don Pedro Lake is 40ish minutes away. That's not even counting Yosemite Lake. Idk if the school talks about the access to all those, I only remember they mention Yosemite and thats almost 2 hours away, why dont they talk about the lakes more? Do they suck or something?

I want my nose done and don't wanna pay a crazy amount of money to get scammed at a piercing shop.

Can people check the scooter and make sure it’s yours please??? I wasnt able to lock my scooter because my app was acting up so whoever took a Werhy scooter outside of COB1 room 102 this morning, please return it. I don’t have the financial freedom to buy a new one and I have a bone spur on my left heel lol walking is my last option

So I have been on subject to academic dismissal since 2023 n I got re-entry in 2024 n ever since I’ve been trying to get my GPA up even including a summer n a winter but I’ve been going semester after semester ever since 2023 non stop no breaks, since 2024 all the 2026 rn I have been w my family for one month n 2 separate weeks because I’ve been in school trying my hardest cuz I also have ADHD n I’m not medicated. Anyways my point is I have been thru these appeals many times now but this semester i severely just burned out. Since last semester I started to get sick losing weight, going back to back to the doctors n then i obviously used that already so I could be let in this spring semester but this spring semester , i literally couldn’t focus or just couldn’t get myself to go class. I felt so over it, I felt like I was doing this for nothing, n this year was my first year alone w no friends because they graduated, my roommate was barely there n I live 5 hours away from home so just imagine that. So my question is do you think this appeal would be able to pass even if I failed all my classes this semester. Because I have been showing them thru emails w my advisor, to as of me contacting professors n obviously my grades can speak for themselves that is have been making so much progress but this time I let myself go for too long n now I REGRET IT. I’m in my third year going to 4th but I was freshman since 22’ got kicked out in 2023 n came a year later to here. So do yall think w good enough evidence n just begging them to see my past progress n obviously a very good plan to let this semester slide could I still win that appeal?

Does anyone know if UC Merced offers any courses related to urban/regional planning, city development, or public transportation? Was interested in taking courses if any are offered related to this area

I emailed my advisor a couple days ago and haven't gotten a response. My audit and CSE roadmap aren't very clear on this. I know CSE-120 is required but can't find any info about the whether the core courses are required. They are listed at: https://eecs.ucmerced.edu/current-students/courses

I saw that pretty much every other UC is a part of this aside from UCSC. Given that first generation students at UC Merced make up 66% of the undergraduate student body, how could we show this to admins?

Silly question, but I’ve always had my mom cut my hair growing up, so now that I’m moving out I’m looking for any recommendations on where UC Merced people go out to get their hair done

I will be honest. I was dragged to Merced's admission day and walked out genuinely impressed. Professors were at booths actually talking about their work. Pre-med students I met were not toppers but they seemed grounded and serious. Almost everyone I spoke to seemed proud to be there, which I did not expect.

I am a Bay Area pre-med student with an average GPA. The culture where I grew up made it easy to feel behind even when you are not. I am not looking for an easy ride. I am looking for a place where if I put in real effort, the environment works with me instead of against me.

Three things I genuinely want honest input on:

GPA reality: Is a 3.85+ achievable with consistent hard work or does pre-med at Merced still have that cutthroat weeding out culture? I am not asking if it is easy, I am asking if effort actually translates to results here.

Community and study groups: I was a late joiner at my Bay Area high school and building real friendships was hard. Does Merced make it easier to find people to genuinely study and grow with, or is it still every person for themselves in pre-med?

Research: Admission day made it sound like undergraduate research and a senior thesis are almost guaranteed if you pursue it. Is that actually true or is it competitive and hard to break into?

The prestige and social angle, and how it actually plays out: This one is harder to admit. Nobody from my school is openly going to Merced. In my community it is not the name that comes up. I know that probably fades once you are on campus and building your life there, but right now it is real and it weighs on me. I want to hear from people who felt that same hesitation before enrolling. Did it actually go away? How long did it take? Do you ever feel it creeping back or does the campus life eventually make it irrelevant?

I know Merced has a reputation to fight against and I am okay with that. What I need to know is whether students who came in average and hungry actually left with strong med school applications. Does that happen regularly or is it just a few exceptions each year?

Deadline is May 14th. Any firsthand experience helps more than you know.