The Ghettoness that is UCSD

I like my medical school. Really. San Diego is a nice place and the school is fairly prestigious with some great professors and research. But man, UCSD is a weird, retarded campus. Here are some wierd things:

Condoms by the shower:

UCSD has an awesome recreation facility. It's totally state of the art. The other day though, as I was putting my stuff away in the locker room I noticed that right outside the showers, there's a condom dispenser. Now, this is the one and only condom dispenser I've seen on campus. Not even the bathroom upstairs in the gym has one. ONLY the bathroom area right next to the showers has one. Now I'm not suggesting the school gym's shower room is a haven of homosexual activity but I'm just gonna say that it's a bit weird and leave it at that.

yay, go Tritons.

Concrete, Concrete, and more Concrete:
This place LOVES concrete and hates paint. Really. My classes are held in the most industrial looking piece of ugly gray concrete box-like structure on Earth. I'm used to beautiful Italian architecture and brick buildings at UCLA but here, they just build huge concrete structures and don't even paint them. They figure all the grass and dead trees around campus will cover up their ugliness or something. Even their sculpture garden is concrete. I shit you not, it's just a bunch of concrete blocks held up in a stone-henge like manner except it's ugly and somehow it's supposed to be a relaxing artistic area.

Trailer Trash School
If the buildings aren't concrete, then they're bungalow/trailer structures. You know, like the portable classrooms some of us had in middle school, those. I mean, I can expect that sorta thing from a junior college but not a "world class research university" as they like to proclaim themselves to be. It's hideous, a bunch of bungalows all over the freakin big campus.

No Coffee:
Apparently the invention of food and soda dispenser machines just totally bypassed UCSD. The coffee shop at the med school closes at five and there is no way to get coffee or soda from any machines. The machines that were there are currently broken and they never installed the coffee dispensers. It's impossible to get a caffeine rush here!

Cafetaria:
Club Med as it is ironically called has the worst food on Earth. They need to demolish that place and have a Wendy's move in there or something. Their Kung Pao chicken tastes like spoiled Fesanjoon (Persians will understand the gravity of this statement only, sorry to discriminate).

But despite all this, I really do like my school, really.