Lucia
People who are sometimes motivated. not very diverse.
Jody
Any conservative student would feel out of place at UCSB, as well as any students who want their college newspaper to be worth more than the paper it's printed on. News (as well as most of the students on campus) leans left. Ethnic diversity is also big and is in fact a course requirement for all majors. Anybody who wants to go to college just to have fun would sadly be well served by attending UCSB.
Lauren
fun free-willed & open-minded
Freda
They all seem to know what they are doing in class.
Hannah
Blood, sweat, glory, victory, tortillas.
Shannon
My classmates are motivated to learn, diverse, hardworking and smart, but also know how to have fun; they form life-long frienships and are generally very friendly.
sadiya
My classmates are all very diverse, it's very interesting when you walk on campus and hear where everyone came from some places you'll recognize and other you will be glad to have learned about.
Leticia
Classmates? Hard to say because we're in lecture halls of 100 to 800 students. Our discussion sections are only about 18 students so that's nice but it's hard to get to know any of your classmates really well because you only go to your section once a week and we run by quarters so you only go to that section ten times per quarter. If you're lucky to get to know your classmates, they are very intelligent. Everyone is almost equally smart or smarter so it's hard to distinguish.
Jennifer
Due to the huge size that UC classes are, every student in your lecture/discussion class is just another person, a mystery. Unlike in High School, in College, you are not familiar with every person in your 700 person class. The ones that stand out are the ones that bother standing out, and not only have an opinion, but announce it as well. The familiar faces of my classmates belong to those who made themselves noticeable through participation, curiousity, and friendliness. Some classmates are almost invisible, others are solely statues, and the best have brains and charisma.
Jake
My classmates are an extremely social bunch that are accepting of everyone and that love to hang out in the dorm lounges and go on off campus adventures such as getting 30 people to go to a California Pizza Kitchen restaurant.