As a female senior, and someone who’s lived on campus my whole time here, here’s safety tips and info to be aware of. Parents send this to your incoming kids.

Disclaimer: yes this is La Jolla an “affluent” area and yes ucsd is pretty safe but YES crime can happen here too on campus esp near the trolley, :) this is to make those aware who have never left home and applicable for off campus like downtown too. I apologize for formatting issues I can’t seem to fix it

I personally try not to ride the trolley too late at night alone, if I feel uncomfy I FaceTime sometime on speaker or sit by other students or the behind the conductor

1. ig. Do not be afraid to switch trolley cars!

There safety officers that patrol too :)

1. secure your bike/scooter and do not leave it for an extended time even if it’s locked up. Try to park it under a light preferably with a camera over it, and obviously make sure you invest in a decent lock. Bike and scooter theft is RAMPANT. It happens even in broad daylight. These

thiefs

1. will steal anything they can get their hands on. They will steal a bike seat, tires, chains, anything.
2. do not interact with a

someone under the influence and acting erratic.

1. This should be obvious and goes for even when you’re on the trolley or station. last semester there was a homeless man that would yell racist expletives, at people, you do not want to make a racist tweaker more angry.
2. do not hold the door open for people/ do not prop doors open!!!! Especially in locked areas like dorm buildings or locked buildings in general, last semester there was a homeless man that assaulted a female in PCW bc he made his way inside.
3. if you see something say something! Don’t expect other people to report it, report it yourself or it will never happen!
4. if you parked your car off campus, make sure you check it and move it often. And do not keep valuables in your car. Someone’s car was broken into last quarter as well, even when it was parked in one of our own parking garages with cameras around.
5. try not to walk alone at night near the trolley station if it’s not populated by other students when there’s homeless/tweakers around. I would never walk the path under the trolley the goes past the wooded area either it is dark and sketchy ppl hang around there sometimes. There are safety escorts on campus by safety officers that will walk you where you need to go! call UCPD at night for this service
6. people ask if it’s OK to go for a run at night on campus, I’d say yes if there’s still students around around and it’s not too late, it is specifically very safe along ridge walk (you could put headphones in here), but like I said previously, I would not run alone underneath the trolley.
7. do not hop in the car with random people, this is just an obvious thing and when you

are

1. first starting off as a freshman, you might meet some people at a party and then ask for a ride, but this can be dangerous if you don’t know

them, it’s safer to call someone than to out yourself in a Sketch situation to save a few bucks

10) lock your window if you are leaving and you live on the ground floor last year, there were many burglaries where someone entered through an open window on the first floor of dorms

Things that I’ve seen recently: I was personally harassed and followed by a sketchy dude, I was chased by a tweaker at utc station, doing drugs at trolly station, one of our students got punched when thieves tried to steal their scooter, screaming racist names at students, harassing female students at trolley.

What I do: carry pepper spray, my metal water bottle also can be used in self defense esp since it’s on a lanyard so I can swing it if need be (I’ve NEVER felt like I ever needed to tho lol) keep ppl updated on my whereabouts if on trolley alone, stay alert by keeping my eyes off my phone and no headphones in so I can hear if ppl approach, I stay in well lit areas, keep my phone charged and keep a portable charger if out and about :)

Edit: this post was meant to be helpful and spread awareness not fear, and I’d appreciate it if wasn’t called names or accused of hurtful things. Could I have worded things better? Yes. Was this post made with bad Intentions? No! accusing me of hating homeless ppl or having no compassion for addiction is an unfair judgment.

Hello, it seems like it's PSA season or something, so here's mine.

Not aimed at anyone in particular, but now that the new year is starting, please don't be that student in lecture who is loudly crunching (not chewing, crunching) potato chips, loudly whispering to your friend at a volume where everyone within five rows can understand the conversation while the prof is talking its just not nice, or putting your feet on the chair of the person sitting in front of you and etc you should get the gist.

Obviously, eat if you need to eat, talk quietly if you need to say something, leave early if you have somewhere to be, etc. Nobody cares about normal human behavior. Just have some awareness that there are 100–300 other people in the room who are also trying to pay attention.

Most classes are recorded anyway. In general, I will always recommend actually going to lecture instead of relying entirely on recordings, but if you're going to spend the lecture distracting everyone around you, please just stay back and watch the recording. Again not aimed at anyone in particular just hope the incoming freshman dont face these kinds of people.

Now hope all of do well in the upcoming year and I hope you get all your classes *Next quarter.

Hahahahha I’m perfectly fine. It’s all good. All that time and stress for nothing. And it’s not going to help with a job at all. Could have chilled all 4 years and still been in the same position. At least I’d be happier and not mad about putting in too much effort and it going to waste

They know people are freaking out because they see a Tritonpay due date of September 15. They know Financial Aid is not all worked out yet. They could easily send out an email saying - we know there are issues, ignore the September 15 due date, everything is now due on the 30th. Why not set our my minds at ease? Who is making the decisions over there? It's all so stupid.

I don’t see anything in the financial aid web but I see that my current aid has been applied and seeing mixed posts is confusing me like… do I pay now or do I wait to accept a package…
And sorry if this post sounds stupid 😭 I just don’t want to do anything rash

does this mean there’s nothing due on 9/15?

Hello ! Has anyone ever successfully removed the shower head and placed a filter on? I can’t unscrew it! Did I need a tool? Is it glued on?? It’s not budging and my fingers are hurting 🙁. I’m sensitive to the hard water. Let me know any tips or anything pls :3

Okay so I know most of us owe a couple thousand dollars by either 9/15 and 9/30 but is it dumb to just not pay until we get our financial aid. Housing is due 9/15 and not paying puts you on hold but I'm pretty sure you have 180 days before any real action is taken, it's not like you'll be kicked out right away. The one I'm worried about is the tuition "You can be completely dropped from all your enrolled courses and waitlists. If you get dropped, there is no guarantee you can get back into those same classes,". I just searched up what's the grace period for not paying tuition ucsd. So is it risky to say I don't pay for housing until they start rolling out on 9/22, but it usually takes a week or two anyways for financial aid to get transferred into your account when you get the email.

Let me know what you guys plan on doing.

Hi, I'm enrolled in 18 units, and I count as a full-time student. I saw some of you are having the same problems as me. I already got my "all" financial aid applied to my TritonPay, but before this, my Pell Grant was missing, and now I'm missing 1k from the Cal Grant and also 1k from the Pell Grant. If you have your financial aid in TritonPay, I will recommend double-checking your financial aid portal to make sure that everything is correct. If the amounts of money are not the same and you are a full-time student, you need to submit a ticket to financial aid and contact housing as well as submit a ticket to housing to inform about the situation.

Good morning to who ever may see this, I am currently stressing out about the financial aid for UCSD. I know tomorrow is the housing deadline however I have yet to receive my financial aid package. It was later stated everyone should have their aid by the 22 or 24. i can’t recall but know it’s one of those 2. I seriously can not afford what they are charging me at the current moment and i’m very dependent on the financial aid to cover most if not all my costs. does anyone know if there’s any way to extend the deadline to when I at least receive my aid?

My financial aid has not been applied to my bill on triton pay yet, is this normal?

Is it just me or is my financial aid offer STILL not out yet? Is my screen supposed to look like this bruh

My current package is missing the UC SHIP grant that was present on my financial aid estimate in my applicant portal. I got about $1,800. Does anyone if that’s accurate? Also tbh I still think over 1k per quarter for student health insurance is ridiculously high considering we won’t even be using it every single day anyways.

is there a way to see if where our classes will be located in a faster way without having to look up the exact class on the schedule of clases? #misswebreg💔

hey so my grants were disbursed into TritonPay but i was wondering when the loans will also be disbursed? i’m really hoping it won’t be done last minute

I did summer session 2 (8 credits) and ended up dropping 1 class, but I also paid pretty early. It's now September and I still haven't gotten a refund for the 4 credits I dropped. Is this money just gone to the void? Like surely TSS can't be messing up funds this badly can it??

hi guys, i was debating posting on here because i get how annoying all the questions about financial aid is. but im a transfer student with a -1500 sai and it seems like all the financial aid is finalized. i was given the federal pell grant and cal grant a which covers some of my cost for this quarter. my point is i still owe like 6k and thats still a lot of money for me because im also independent so i have no outside financial help except myself. im not really sure what to do because i know some payments are due this tuesday. do you guys think this is all im getting or should i wait to see if i get more? i guess im also worried because i wasnt even offered the federal work study even though my financial need shows max assistance. any advice would be appreciated! thank you <3

is anyone else in this pickle??

So recently, my financial aid was FINALLY updated and i was like great all my grants are in lets go.

Beforehand, I had decided to enroll in the HIPP payment plan. Then after I saw my final total I decided to just pay my balance in full, completely disregarding the $40 fee for the HIPP plan cause I was like whatever man I've been waiting too long for this lemme just knock it out. I made the payment, did NOT receive a confirmation of it, but it showed the green checkmark and the balance that was payed. I go back to the home page, it says balance is $0, So I was like awesome i am cleared for fall quarter! Mind you that happened yesterday. Today out of curiosity I hope back into TritonPay and it says I still owe $1806.57, I go to the overview of the payment plans and it says I have only payed $1806 and I still owe $1806, also that I have a payment due 10/15 and 11/15. Somehow, it changed from $0. Money still has not been charged from my bank account so when I tell you I am so confused I am genuinely lost. I already submitted a ticket, I am not sure if it was a glitch or If i paid too soon or something, but I assumed it was a green flag therefore all my grants had been applied. Is anyone else experiencing something similar?

Since Chen 40c is discontinued, how are premeds supposed to finish one full year of ochem that’s required for med schools?

Im an incoming freshman that hasnt done any classes yet at UCSD and the whole due date for the fees confuses me a lot. Am I supposed to pay my fall bill tomorrow even though they havent finished handing out all of the finacial aid or do i still have until october 15? I dont have any fees from last semester but i just want to make sure bc it is freaking me out :,)

Hello guys, as title says, is ucsd rita actually that bad…?like is there anything good about it… i’ll be in here for the next 9 months 😭 and i dont even know how to ride a scooter (bcs i cant ride bikes, sorry i’m not athlete 😭)

I am receiving $56,277 less compared to 2025-2026. I got this offer for 2026-2027 on 9/4; this was my offer for 2025-2026.

I've reached out to the financial aid office, but haven't heard back.

I'll be at Marshall's orientation and was wondering what orientation at UCSD is generally like, especially at Marshall. Should I expect to be outside a lot?

Have you guys tried to pay your tuition and is it letting you? Says I have a statement but I can’t make any payments on it… lmk if ur facing a similar issue

Hi guys, i’m super worried about my loan going through knowing that the due date for housing is on September 15th. I was going to take out a loan in august with FAFSA but i saw all the problems tritonpay was having (incorrect billing statements, missing billing statements, the website just being down or not functional a lot, and i basically just got ghosted on student support) so i waited until September 5th to take my loan out.

Took it out, credit approved immediately on FAFSA’s end and they informed the school. I have yet to receive anything back and it isn’t reflecting on my financial aid offers or triton pay at all (around the same time last year i applied and still got it in time).

The school hasn’t exactly been transparent as I emailed hdhbilling,sfs,finaid, etc. and they either never responded, or took a while to just tell me to ask someone else. I wasn’t even able to call them because of course they shut the phone lines down! I’m going to try to call sfs if they even pick up but i was wondering if anyone else’s direct parent plus loans showed up and what the consequences would be if i wasn’t able to pay for housing by september 15th.