walker ryan at his school

[1dxxxx]

http://www.organikaskateboards.com/2009/03/walkers-ucsd-edit/

pretty crazy that the school has that many spots

[tysj!]

What's crazy is doing all that and more and still going to UCSD with probably more than good standing.

[gutterhead.]

damn, i wish i was that good at skating, and that good and school.

[timmyturnstains]

that was some good skateboarding.

walker ryan is now one of my favourites.

[frig deuce]

whaaat the fuuck that school has wayyy too many spots. he fucking killlled it though, so sick.

[Doctor Handsome]

The ledge he nosegrind nollie flipped is so gnarly. wooooo

[SCOOPS]

This guy needs to go pro soon. Over 10 minutes of good footage in one year and one of my favorite styles. Maybe he wants to wait until hes done school but he is easily the best skater on Organika.

[boyan]

his campus is the size of my town, hahaha
and ryan is killing it

[paulhartman4prez]

fuk skool

[Hatechild]

My friend used to go to UCSD, great variety of spots but you get busted allot....as seen in the part. Walker's sick.

[KoRnholio8]

too bad the security is "hunting" him down now... should have given him some honours after the part he filmed...

[crest]

walker kills it. really liked his organika promo part.

[Pelican]

now i feel bad about my campus

[jrock]

i fucking hate campus cops. 

[sylvanloc]

that was amazing!

[net lurk]

that was amazing!

[riding bitches]

What's crazy is doing all that and more and still going to UCSD with probably more than good standing.

uc's offer a lot of great and challenging classes and majors, but there are majors where kids can cruise by, by just going to class and doing the bare minimum amount of work around finals and midterms.  i read this dude's interview and he said 1) it is going to take him 5 years to graduate 2) his major is some interdisciplinary bullshit that had to do with sociology (which is an absolute joke) and neuroscience (i think) which is more respectable, but if its taking him five years he probably taking a lot 12 unit quarters.  idk that's not to say going to a uc isn't respectable and if you're a major in bio, chem, phyisics, engineering, econ, pol sci, linguistics, business etc its really competitive and difficult to do well, but if you're not trying to graduate at the top of your class in a competitive and difficult major, i think it would actually be less limiting on your skating than having even to work like a 25 to 30. 

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What's crazy is doing all that and more and still going to UCSD with probably more than good standing.

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uc's offer a lot of great and challenging classes and majors, but there are majors where kids can cruise by, by just going to class and doing the bare minimum amount of work around finals and midterms.  i read this dude's interview and he said 1) it is going to take him 5 years to graduate 2) his major is some interdisciplinary bullshit that had to do with sociology (which is an absolute joke) and neuroscience (i think) which is more respectable, but if its taking him five years he probably taking a lot 12 unit quarters.  idk that's not to say going to a uc isn't respectable and if you're a major in bio, chem, phyisics, engineering, econ, pol sci, linguistics, business etc its really competitive and difficult to do well, but if you're not trying to graduate at the top of your class in a competitive and difficult major, i think it would actually be less limiting on your skating than having even to work like a 25 to 30. 

sociology is a joke? and poli sci isn't? you have a very strange way of deciding "legitimate" majors. if you want to do well at sociology, it can be just as hard as econ, poli sci, linguistics, and a lot harder than business. maybe you're ignoring the huge statistical analysis portion of sociology. or you have some kind of bias against social sciences.

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uc's offer a lot of great and challenging classes and majors, but there are majors where kids can cruise by, by just going to class and doing the bare minimum amount of work around finals and midterms.  i read this dude's interview and he said 1) it is going to take him 5 years to graduate 2) his major is some interdisciplinary bullshit that had to do with sociology (which is an absolute joke) and neuroscience (i think) which is more respectable, but if its taking him five years he probably taking a lot 12 unit quarters.  idk that's not to say going to a uc isn't respectable and if you're a major in bio, chem, phyisics, engineering, econ, pol sci, linguistics, business etc its really competitive and difficult to do well, but if you're not trying to graduate at the top of your class in a competitive and difficult major, i think it would actually be less limiting on your skating than having even to work like a 25 to 30. 

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sociology is a joke? and poli sci isn't? you have a very strange way of deciding "legitimate" majors. if you want to do well at sociology, it can be just as hard as econ, poli sci, linguistics, and a lot harder than business. maybe you're ignoring the huge statistical analysis portion of sociology. or you have some kind of bias against social sciences.

i base this on a variety of factors.  if you go to any legitimate university, any program can be challenging and helpful to one's future if they are highly devoted to it and make important contributions to the field. however, on the whole, in my research of post graduate programs, post graduate employment and direct experience at a high level UC,   1) the requirements for the major are much less stringent than any of the majors i mentioned prior and there is no gpa requirement to gain entry into the major. 2)the grade distribution for pre req classes and major classes in sociology is extremely easy as many of the people in the major, including ones i have known and know now, chose the major for its relative ease and they constantly tell me how easy the classes are.  friends of mine and myself have taken upper division courses and been shocked by the ease of grading by professors and straightforwardness of material. 3) no matter how hard it could be made to be, employers and post graduate schools look more favorably on a degree in all of the mentioned majors (unless you are going for a post grad degree in sociology) because they are simply perceived as more legitimate as far being applicable. generally speaking pol sci=law school (very competitive and prestigious), work within the government on a local state or federal level, or private lobbying  econ/business=post graduate MBA work (also very competitive and difficult) or real world understanding of business w/o post graduate work, which is very attractive to employers, linguistics=great chance at high level gov. employment and having knowledge of a second language is also a huge plus in the job market.

how hard any major is varies by who is teaching what courses, the academic institution as whole, etc.  however, from my direct experience attending the UC system and talking to many graduates from every single campus, sociology is among the easiest and least respected social science majors, if nothing else because it has very little practical implications relative to even other social science majors such as history.  for graduate programs across the country a degree in sociology is not looked at as favorably as a degree in any of the subjects i mentioned, also all those majors have a statistical analysis portion too and there is no way the mathematical calculations in sociology even come close to the complexity and difficulty of those in business and econ classes.             

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that was amazing!

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How does one school have that much damn shit to skate?!

[RRRRRAD]

that was pretty fucking sweet

[lazy]

this video part should count as a college credit...

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What's crazy is doing all that and more and still going to UCSD with probably more than good standing.

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uc's offer a lot of great and challenging classes and majors, but there are majors where kids can cruise by, by just going to class and doing the bare minimum amount of work around finals and midterms.  i read this dude's interview and he said 1) it is going to take him 5 years to graduate 2) his major is some interdisciplinary bullshit that had to do with sociology (which is an absolute joke) and neuroscience (i think) which is more respectable, but if its taking him five years he probably taking a lot 12 unit quarters.  idk that's not to say going to a uc isn't respectable and if you're a major in bio, chem, phyisics, engineering, econ, pol sci, linguistics, business etc its really competitive and difficult to do well, but if you're not trying to graduate at the top of your class in a competitive and difficult major, i think it would actually be less limiting on your skating than having even to work like a 25 to 30. 

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sociology is a joke? and poli sci isn't? you have a very strange way of deciding "legitimate" majors. if you want to do well at sociology, it can be just as hard as econ, poli sci, linguistics, and a lot harder than business. maybe you're ignoring the huge statistical analysis portion of sociology. or you have some kind of bias against social sciences.

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i base this on a variety of factors.  if you go to any legitimate university, any program can be challenging and helpful to one's future if they are highly devoted to it and make important contributions to the field. however, on the whole, in my research of post graduate programs, post graduate employment and direct experience at a high level UC,   1) the requirements for the major are much less stringent than any of the majors i mentioned prior and there is no gpa requirement to gain entry into the major. 2)the grade distribution for pre req classes and major classes in sociology is extremely easy as many of the people in the major, including ones i have known and know now, chose the major for its relative ease and they constantly tell me how easy the classes are.  friends of mine and myself have taken upper division courses and been shocked by the ease of grading by professors and straightforwardness of material. 3) no matter how hard it could be made to be, employers and post graduate schools look more favorably on a degree in all of the mentioned majors (unless you are going for a post grad degree in sociology) because they are simply perceived as more legitimate as far being applicable. generally speaking pol sci=law school (very competitive and prestigious), work within the government on a local state or federal level, or private lobbying  econ/business=post graduate MBA work (also very competitive and difficult) or real world understanding of business w/o post graduate work, which is very attractive to employers, linguistics=great chance at high level gov. employment and having knowledge of a second language is also a huge plus in the job market.

how hard any major is varies by who is teaching what courses, the academic institution as whole, etc.  however, from my direct experience attending the UC system and talking to many graduates from every single campus, sociology is among the easiest and least respected social science majors, if nothing else because it has very little practical implications relative to even other social science majors such as history.  for graduate programs across the country a degree in sociology is not looked at as favorably as a degree in any of the subjects i mentioned, also all those majors have a statistical analysis portion too and there is no way the mathematical calculations in sociology even come close to the complexity and difficulty of those in business and econ classes.             

dude you have to be new. chill with all this text

[Pete]

dont even waste youre time saying all that shit here. that front nosegrind flip out was pretty impressive

[Hopscotch]

How does one school have that much damn shit to skate?!

constant construction. we just got new metal ledges and an 8 stair this year too.

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What's crazy is doing all that and more and still going to UCSD with probably more than good standing.

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uc's offer a lot of great and challenging classes and majors, but there are majors where kids can cruise by, by just going to class and doing the bare minimum amount of work around finals and midterms.  i read this dude's interview and he said 1) it is going to take him 5 years to graduate 2) his major is some interdisciplinary bullshit that had to do with sociology (which is an absolute joke) and neuroscience (i think) which is more respectable, but if its taking him five years he probably taking a lot 12 unit quarters.  idk that's not to say going to a uc isn't respectable and if you're a major in bio, chem, phyisics, engineering, econ, pol sci, linguistics, business etc its really competitive and difficult to do well, but if you're not trying to graduate at the top of your class in a competitive and difficult major, i think it would actually be less limiting on your skating than having even to work like a 25 to 30. 

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sociology is a joke? and poli sci isn't? you have a very strange way of deciding "legitimate" majors. if you want to do well at sociology, it can be just as hard as econ, poli sci, linguistics, and a lot harder than business. maybe you're ignoring the huge statistical analysis portion of sociology. or you have some kind of bias against social sciences.

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i base this on a variety of factors.  if you go to any legitimate university, any program can be challenging and helpful to one's future if they are highly devoted to it and make important contributions to the field. however, on the whole, in my research of post graduate programs, post graduate employment and direct experience at a high level UC,   1) the requirements for the major are much less stringent than any of the majors i mentioned prior and there is no gpa requirement to gain entry into the major. 2)the grade distribution for pre req classes and major classes in sociology is extremely easy as many of the people in the major, including ones i have known and know now, chose the major for its relative ease and they constantly tell me how easy the classes are.  friends of mine and myself have taken upper division courses and been shocked by the ease of grading by professors and straightforwardness of material. 3) no matter how hard it could be made to be, employers and post graduate schools look more favorably on a degree in all of the mentioned majors (unless you are going for a post grad degree in sociology) because they are simply perceived as more legitimate as far being applicable. generally speaking pol sci=law school (very competitive and prestigious), work within the government on a local state or federal level, or private lobbying  econ/business=post graduate MBA work (also very competitive and difficult) or real world understanding of business w/o post graduate work, which is very attractive to employers, linguistics=great chance at high level gov. employment and having knowledge of a second language is also a huge plus in the job market.

how hard any major is varies by who is teaching what courses, the academic institution as whole, etc.  however, from my direct experience attending the UC system and talking to many graduates from every single campus, sociology is among the easiest and least respected social science majors, if nothing else because it has very little practical implications relative to even other social science majors such as history.  for graduate programs across the country a degree in sociology is not looked at as favorably as a degree in any of the subjects i mentioned, also all those majors have a statistical analysis portion too and there is no way the mathematical calculations in sociology even come close to the complexity and difficulty of those in business and econ classes.             

well, first i want to apologize for getting hostile over this. i wasn't sure if you actually had any experience with sociology courses or if you just had a bias against it as most people seem to do. second, as a sociology major myself, i got defensive over it. i'm not sure about the UC sociolgy courses, but i do know that at my school, the sociology classes are actually extremely difficult, especially compared to several other social science courses. excluding most econ classes, the statistical analysis portion of sociology is often at the same level as poli sci courses, etc. i'm not saying that sociology is by any means the most applicable major, but it by no means limits a person to merely continuing to their masters, Ph.D., and then teaching. sociology is often used in politics to create laws and policies because sociologists are capable of looking at large groups of people and accurately analyzing their interactions. aside from this, although law schools tend to have a high rate if poli sci majors, a lot of law schools are trying to get away from this pattern out of fear of sending out all poli sci undergrads who all think similarly. law schools actually like accepting undergrads with degrees in other social sciences, just as med schools are beginning to favor majors outside of biology/chemistry because of the differing viewpoints that these majors can give. also, i have been to several internship/career fairs at my school and talked to several U.S. govt. officials and sociology majors are very often sought after for jobs in which a person has to live overseas, whether it be in research, an embassy worker/ambassador, a consular, etc. bcause of the ability of sociologists to look at and create patterns of foreign cultures.

and as i already said, i'm not familiar with the undergraduate sociology programs at the UC schools, but here, sociology is by no means the easiest major or looked down upon by other majors (except for those cocky pre-meds and math/econ majors, but they look down on every other major), and is held in very high esteem. i'm kinda disappointed that UC's sociology program doesn't sound too strong. sorry for this long, rambling response.

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uc's offer a lot of great and challenging classes and majors, but there are majors where kids can cruise by, by just going to class and doing the bare minimum amount of work around finals and midterms.  i read this dude's interview and he said 1) it is going to take him 5 years to graduate 2) his major is some interdisciplinary bullshit that had to do with sociology (which is an absolute joke) and neuroscience (i think) which is more respectable, but if its taking him five years he probably taking a lot 12 unit quarters.  idk that's not to say going to a uc isn't respectable and if you're a major in bio, chem, phyisics, engineering, econ, pol sci, linguistics, business etc its really competitive and difficult to do well, but if you're not trying to graduate at the top of your class in a competitive and difficult major, i think it would actually be less limiting on your skating than having even to work like a 25 to 30. 

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sociology is a joke? and poli sci isn't? you have a very strange way of deciding "legitimate" majors. if you want to do well at sociology, it can be just as hard as econ, poli sci, linguistics, and a lot harder than business. maybe you're ignoring the huge statistical analysis portion of sociology. or you have some kind of bias against social sciences.

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i base this on a variety of factors.  if you go to any legitimate university, any program can be challenging and helpful to one's future if they are highly devoted to it and make important contributions to the field. however, on the whole, in my research of post graduate programs, post graduate employment and direct experience at a high level UC,   1) the requirements for the major are much less stringent than any of the majors i mentioned prior and there is no gpa requirement to gain entry into the major. 2)the grade distribution for pre req classes and major classes in sociology is extremely easy as many of the people in the major, including ones i have known and know now, chose the major for its relative ease and they constantly tell me how easy the classes are.  friends of mine and myself have taken upper division courses and been shocked by the ease of grading by professors and straightforwardness of material. 3) no matter how hard it could be made to be, employers and post graduate schools look more favorably on a degree in all of the mentioned majors (unless you are going for a post grad degree in sociology) because they are simply perceived as more legitimate as far being applicable. generally speaking pol sci=law school (very competitive and prestigious), work within the government on a local state or federal level, or private lobbying  econ/business=post graduate MBA work (also very competitive and difficult) or real world understanding of business w/o post graduate work, which is very attractive to employers, linguistics=great chance at high level gov. employment and having knowledge of a second language is also a huge plus in the job market.

how hard any major is varies by who is teaching what courses, the academic institution as whole, etc.  however, from my direct experience attending the UC system and talking to many graduates from every single campus, sociology is among the easiest and least respected social science majors, if nothing else because it has very little practical implications relative to even other social science majors such as history.  for graduate programs across the country a degree in sociology is not looked at as favorably as a degree in any of the subjects i mentioned, also all those majors have a statistical analysis portion too and there is no way the mathematical calculations in sociology even come close to the complexity and difficulty of those in business and econ classes.             

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well, first i want to apologize for getting hostile over this. i wasn't sure if you actually had any experience with sociology courses or if you just had a bias against it as most people seem to do. second, as a sociology major myself, i got defensive over it. i'm not sure about the UC sociolgy courses, but i do know that at my school, the sociology classes are actually extremely difficult, especially compared to several other social science courses. excluding most econ classes, the statistical analysis portion of sociology is often at the same level as poli sci courses, etc. i'm not saying that sociology is by any means the most applicable major, but it by no means limits a person to merely continuing to their masters, Ph.D., and then teaching. sociology is often used in politics to create laws and policies because sociologists are capable of looking at large groups of people and accurately analyzing their interactions. aside from this, although law schools tend to have a high rate if poli sci majors, a lot of law schools are trying to get away from this pattern out of fear of sending out all poli sci undergrads who all think similarly. law schools actually like accepting undergrads with degrees in other social sciences, just as med schools are beginning to favor majors outside of biology/chemistry because of the differing viewpoints that these majors can give. also, i have been to several internship/career fairs at my school and talked to several U.S. govt. officials and sociology majors are very often sought after for jobs in which a person has to live overseas, whether it be in research, an embassy worker/ambassador, a consular, etc. bcause of the ability of sociologists to look at and create patterns of foreign cultures.

and as i already said, i'm not familiar with the undergraduate sociology programs at the UC schools, but here, sociology is by no means the easiest major or looked down upon by other majors (except for those cocky pre-meds and math/econ majors, but they look down on every other major), and is held in very high esteem. i'm kinda disappointed that UC's sociology program doesn't sound too strong. sorry for this long, rambling response.

you guys are obviously really smart, its ok, we can tell.

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uc's offer a lot of great and challenging classes and majors, but there are majors where kids can cruise by, by just going to class and doing the bare minimum amount of work around finals and midterms.  i read this dude's interview and he said 1) it is going to take him 5 years to graduate 2) his major is some interdisciplinary bullshit that had to do with sociology (which is an absolute joke) and neuroscience (i think) which is more respectable, but if its taking him five years he probably taking a lot 12 unit quarters.  idk that's not to say going to a uc isn't respectable and if you're a major in bio, chem, phyisics, engineering, econ, pol sci, linguistics, business etc its really competitive and difficult to do well, but if you're not trying to graduate at the top of your class in a competitive and difficult major, i think it would actually be less limiting on your skating than having even to work like a 25 to 30. 

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sociology is a joke? and poli sci isn't? you have a very strange way of deciding "legitimate" majors. if you want to do well at sociology, it can be just as hard as econ, poli sci, linguistics, and a lot harder than business. maybe you're ignoring the huge statistical analysis portion of sociology. or you have some kind of bias against social sciences.

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i base this on a variety of factors.  if you go to any legitimate university, any program can be challenging and helpful to one's future if they are highly devoted to it and make important contributions to the field. however, on the whole, in my research of post graduate programs, post graduate employment and direct experience at a high level UC,   1) the requirements for the major are much less stringent than any of the majors i mentioned prior and there is no gpa requirement to gain entry into the major. 2)the grade distribution for pre req classes and major classes in sociology is extremely easy as many of the people in the major, including ones i have known and know now, chose the major for its relative ease and they constantly tell me how easy the classes are.  friends of mine and myself have taken upper division courses and been shocked by the ease of grading by professors and straightforwardness of material. 3) no matter how hard it could be made to be, employers and post graduate schools look more favorably on a degree in all of the mentioned majors (unless you are going for a post grad degree in sociology) because they are simply perceived as more legitimate as far being applicable. generally speaking pol sci=law school (very competitive and prestigious), work within the government on a local state or federal level, or private lobbying  econ/business=post graduate MBA work (also very competitive and difficult) or real world understanding of business w/o post graduate work, which is very attractive to employers, linguistics=great chance at high level gov. employment and having knowledge of a second language is also a huge plus in the job market.

how hard any major is varies by who is teaching what courses, the academic institution as whole, etc.  however, from my direct experience attending the UC system and talking to many graduates from every single campus, sociology is among the easiest and least respected social science majors, if nothing else because it has very little practical implications relative to even other social science majors such as history.  for graduate programs across the country a degree in sociology is not looked at as favorably as a degree in any of the subjects i mentioned, also all those majors have a statistical analysis portion too and there is no way the mathematical calculations in sociology even come close to the complexity and difficulty of those in business and econ classes.             

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well, first i want to apologize for getting hostile over this. i wasn't sure if you actually had any experience with sociology courses or if you just had a bias against it as most people seem to do. second, as a sociology major myself, i got defensive over it. i'm not sure about the UC sociolgy courses, but i do know that at my school, the sociology classes are actually extremely difficult, especially compared to several other social science courses. excluding most econ classes, the statistical analysis portion of sociology is often at the same level as poli sci courses, etc. i'm not saying that sociology is by any means the most applicable major, but it by no means limits a person to merely continuing to their masters, Ph.D., and then teaching. sociology is often used in politics to create laws and policies because sociologists are capable of looking at large groups of people and accurately analyzing their interactions. aside from this, although law schools tend to have a high rate if poli sci majors, a lot of law schools are trying to get away from this pattern out of fear of sending out all poli sci undergrads who all think similarly. law schools actually like accepting undergrads with degrees in other social sciences, just as med schools are beginning to favor majors outside of biology/chemistry because of the differing viewpoints that these majors can give. also, i have been to several internship/career fairs at my school and talked to several U.S. govt. officials and sociology majors are very often sought after for jobs in which a person has to live overseas, whether it be in research, an embassy worker/ambassador, a consular, etc. bcause of the ability of sociologists to look at and create patterns of foreign cultures.

and as i already said, i'm not familiar with the undergraduate sociology programs at the UC schools, but here, sociology is by no means the easiest major or looked down upon by other majors (except for those cocky pre-meds and math/econ majors, but they look down on every other major), and is held in very high esteem. i'm kinda disappointed that UC's sociology program doesn't sound too strong. sorry for this long, rambling response.

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you guys are obviously really smart, its ok, we can tell.

no! i will continue to rub it in everyone's face until i feel good about myself!