During the past couple days, my friend Julia and I took a trip down to LA to scope out Long Beach and Northridge. We both work for The Channels and are majoring in journalism, so we are interested in transferring to some of the same schools and plan on sharing a place together if we end up choosing the same university!
Cal State Long Beach was an big, beautiful campus. It's closer than San Diego and Fullerton for sure, but Northridge still seems to be the closest and most convenient. Even though the waiting game is still very much taking place, we have to submit supplemental applications to each university in order to prove our progress from last semester. I will be working on that these last couple of days before school starts back up. After checking out the Long Beach campus, Julia and I decided to wait to look around town until we officially know if we got accepted. The next day, we tried to find the trail to hike to the Hollywood sign. We ended up driving to Griffith Observatory due to the weather and the lack of time we had to hike 3-6 miles there and back. When we got to the destination on top of the mountain, we instantly realized we were up in the clouds and surrounded by fog. People specifically go to the Griffith Observatory to get the best views of LA. One of the things I was most excited about on this trip was to get a picture with the Hollywood sign for two reasons: (1) I never have and (2) it's so relevant right now! I would've instagrammed that with the caption "HollyWOOD #stopthememes" but we couldn't see the sign, yet alone the entire city of LA or anything several feet away.
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| Wow....The LA smog has gotten pretty bad hasn't it? |
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| Just kidding, it's rain. WOW, it rains in LA?? |
After that major fail, we laughed it off and drove up to Northridge. We didn't look around the CSUN campus since we have both been there before, but since we are both highly considering Northridge, we took a look at some of the apartments around town. We saw a lot of places in the short couple hours we had! We did this just to get an idea of what we can afford compared to Santa Barbara and we also kind of did it for fun! We accidentally walked into what we thought was a leasing office, but was instead an office for purchasing a place. We also didn't realize that these were townhouses because they looked like apartments from the outside. The office lady said that all the ones in the back were open and we could go inside and look at all of them on our own. Without hesitation, Julia and I walked into these $500,000- $700,000 houses and just about had heartattacks around each corner we turned. There were probably cameras and we probably made a fool of ourselves with our giddy reactions. The houses were completely furnished with modern furniture, stainless steel appliances, walk-in closets, and they each even had an elevator! After we had our "dream on" moments, we avoided heading back through the office as we walked back to our car in embarrassment. Next we drove to a 7-Eleven where we had to stop and use the restroom.....boy
that was a wake up call! It's like we entered a whole other world. Oh well....It was fun while it lasted.
Cal State Long Beach was an big, beautiful campus. It's closer than San Diego and Fullerton for sure, but Northridge still seems to be the closest and most convenient. Even though the waiting game is still very much taking place, we have to submit supplemental applications to each university in order to prove our progress from last semester. I will be working on that these last couple of days before school starts back up. After checking out the Long Beach campus, Julia and I decided to wait to look around town until we officially know if we got accepted. The next day, we tried to find the trail to hike to the Hollywood sign. We ended up driving to Griffith Observatory due to the weather and the lack of time we had to hike 3-6 miles there and back. When we got to the destination on top of the mountain, we instantly realized we were up in the clouds and surrounded by fog. People specifically go to the Griffith Observatory to get the best views of LA. One of the things I was most excited about on this trip was to get a picture with the Hollywood sign for two reasons: (1) I never have and (2) it's so relevant right now! I would've instagrammed that with the caption "HollyWOOD #stopthememes" but we couldn't see the sign, yet alone the entire city of LA or anything several feet away.
After that major fail, we laughed it off and drove up to Northridge. We didn't look around the CSUN campus since we have both been there before, but since we are both highly considering Northridge, we took a look at some of the apartments around town. We saw a lot of places in the short couple hours we had! We did this just to get an idea of what we can afford compared to Santa Barbara and we also kind of did it for fun! We accidentally walked into what we thought was a leasing office, but was instead an office for purchasing a place. We also didn't realize that these were townhouses because they looked like apartments from the outside. The office lady said that all the ones in the back were open and we could go inside and look at all of them on our own. Without hesitation, Julia and I walked into these $500,000- $700,000 houses and just about had heartattacks around each corner we turned. There were probably cameras and we probably made a fool of ourselves with our giddy reactions. The houses were completely furnished with modern furniture, stainless steel appliances, walk-in closets, and they each even had an elevator! After we had our "dream on" moments, we avoided heading back through the office as we walked back to our car in embarrassment. Next we drove to a 7-Eleven where we had to stop and use the restroom.....boy 
that was a wake up call! It's like we entered a whole other world. Oh well....It was fun while it lasted.
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