Cozma Alex said:
It is nice?
What can the city offer?
Is a good place for an international student who wants to study physics?
Do you like living there?
And is it like in victorious, in the tv shows and in the films?
For the ones who played gta 5... how similar is to los Santos?
It's funny I live here, but I have a hard time trying to come up with answers these questions.
There's a lot of traffic, and parking is often packed in Westwood. Cars are usually double parked at the apartments near UCLA. It must be hell trying to get out, unless they use it only sparsely. People have been declined parking permits because of the lack of room. If you come here, do what I did and rent a place that is walking distance from campus. I lived in the dorms for a year, and while it was cramped, the dining facilities were close by, and there were communal restrooms and lounges, and I felt connected with the community. Now I live in a 1 bedroom apartment that goes for $2200 shared between 3 people. If you ever need to get somewhere and not have a car, there's Uber and Lyft, or public transportation (Metro / Big Blue Bus). You could also purchase/rent a bicycle.
There are some cool places to visit like Santa Monica beach, Venice beach, the Marina Del Rey Aquatics Center, Hollywood Blvd, the Griffith Observatory. Just off campus in Westwood village, they have occasional movie premiers at the local theatre, and a pretty big assortment of restaurants. There are a lot of homeless people though, and one of the things people have to learn the hard way is to not give into panhandlers and con artists - just ignore them. Whether or not it is like Victorious (I've never actually watched it, but I presume you're talking about the glamorous social life of youth) will depend on a lot of things, like how outgoing you are and the people you hang out with, but my recommendation would be to join clubs and societies and make friends. If you live in the dorms, your RA will curate a lot of social events for you, given that you make your interest known.
I would say the physics programs here are quite good. Most professors have been easy enough to follow, but there have been those who primarily slap derivations and solutions on the board and show little mercy to struggling students are the hardest. In addition to the standard set of classes you can find at most schools, you could also study plasma physics particle beams. UCLA also has its own chapter of SPS and UAS.
With that said, I really enjoyed my experience my first couple of quarters, but later there was a death in the family, and I had an issue with the office of residential life, and my workload simply became too much for me to enjoy life, so things started going downhill.