Getting Around Campus

UCSD is a fairly large campus and traveling around it can take some getting used to. For the most part you can think of the campus as a large circle with the residential areas on the outside of the circle and the lecture halls and other facilities on the inside of the circle. You’re all Warren students so I’ll give you a perspective of how the campus looks from the Warren residential area. The Warren residential area is one of the lowest points on campus, what this means is that you’ll be going up slopes to get to classes, and going down slopes when returning to your room. On a bike this can be nice because you don’t really have to pedal much when you’re coming back from classes. This brings us to different ways that you can get around campus

The main ways that people get around the campus are walking, longboarding, biking, and taking the Campus Loop Shuttle. Everything on campus is within 20 minutes of walking since it takes this long to travel from one corner of campus to the other, such as going from Warren to Revelle. Many people bring longboards or skateboards to campus and travel this way. It’s not something that’s too difficult to learn and you can longboard to class faster than you can walk to class and you can just take your board into lecture with you and store it under your seat. Biking is the fastest way to get around campus, there are some steep hills on campus that may seem difficult for some to bike up at first, but with practice the hills become manageable. There are bike racks located all around campus so you will always have a place to lock your bike. Although bicycle theft is not a common occurrence on campus, it still can happen so be sure to lock your bike properly, making sure that the frame is secured to whatever you’re locking the bike to. The last way that most people get around campus is by the Campus Loop Shuttle, this is a shuttle provided by the university that travels around the outer loop of campus, and it comes at regular intervals during the day and can save you a long walk across campus. More information about the shuttle can be found here http://blink.ucsd.edu/facilities/transportation/shuttles/campus-loop.html.

Biking and skateboarding are faster than walking, by bike it can less than half the time to travel somewhere when compared to walking. For example, I can bike to York in about 8 minutes on an average day and am faster or slower depending on how crowded it is. Longboarding is about halfway in-between biking and walking time wise. The shuttle tends to be faster than walking, but slower than biking, depending on how long you have to wait for it.

Feel free to travel around campus in whatever way you are the most comfortable. While most people tend to use bikes or longboards as means of transportation, I’ve also seen plenty of other methods of going around campus ranging from roller blades to unicycles.

Chad Loperfido
Freshman OL, Group 6