What Does Tuition Cover? (Update)
Hi Guys!
I'm a fourth year student and I just wanted to share with you some of the resources available to you (new and returning students!). It stinks to pay so much and not use what you're paying for!
This is a repost from a previous post of mine + some updated items that I just found out about!
Free
- Free Seats to UCD Sporting Events
- First Ticket Free at the Mondavi Center
- Unitrans + YoloBus Use
- Fruits and Veggies + Pantry Items (Free Food)
- Aggie Newspaper
- New York Times Subscription
- Microsoft Office + Software Download
- Email + Unlimited Storage
- Unlimited Storage at Box.com
- ARC Use
- Tutoring (Check out Academic Assistance and Tutoring)
- Contraceptives/Condoms (Check out Love Lab)
- Tampons/Pads/Menstrual Items (Check out Women's Resource and Research Center)
- Teaching Kitchen - Cooking Classes (Check out Student Health and Wellness Center)
- Bike Lights + Helmets (Check out the Bike Barn - Offered at Various Times)
Discounts
- Discounted Bowling/Games at the MU
- Discounted Courses at ARC
- 5% Discount at Safeway
Access to
- Access to Fee Waivers for Campus Resources (ARC/Outdoor/Craft Center Courses)
- Access to Library Resources + Research Papers (Check out Course Reserves for Free Textbook Rental!!)
- Access to Internship + Career Center + Their Workshops
- Access to Writing Specialist at SASC to review essays and scholarship applications
- Access to Student Health and Counseling Services (Free Online Counseling!)
Any additions to the list would be great! :D
Ah and when I'm asking for additions, I mean benefits to students. I know our tuition covers campus fees/renovations/salaries/etc.
Posted Sep 23, 2019, 2:37 AM UTC
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Great list! Some more things:
Unlimited Google drive, Matlab license, library VPN, drop-in use or reservation of individual/group study rooms at Carlson Library, access to the 24 hour study area, IET virtual lab (you can connect to on-campus computers that have software like Photoshop, Illustrator, etc)
Most of these discounts work for students as well as staff: https://hr.ucdavis.edu/departments/worklife-wellness/discounts but some aren't super useful so you might want to just throw a link to it under discounts. Hertz Car Rental (company code 72104) is a notable one
Not Davis-specific, but students get 50% off Amazon Prime and an extended free trial, Zipcar membership for $15/year, JUMP bikes $30 for the first year
I didn't know most of these
Me too! Anyway, so, for safeway, do we just show them our aggiecard?
Yep! It just started this summer. They’ll give you a keychain card and you can use it in addition to your club card.
Cool. Thank you!
Matlab is a software package typically used by engineers to do high level mathematics/wonky code shit. I would imagine most people would not care about the license.
The library VPN is a godsend. You will be reading a lot of research papers and you will notice that if you're on the university network you can access them without having to fork over like 80 bucks. The VPN allows you to do that from home by logging into the UCD network. Additionally, the VPN gives you access to a bunch of databases with all sorts of articles/papers/reports, databases which typically cost hundreds to thousands of dollars a year. It's great and generally useful no matter what your major is, and as far as I can tell nobody mentions it to you as a part of your classes until like your 3rd year in at upper division. Hell, I'm in a graduate program and the only reason I know it exists is because I also went here for undergrad.