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Nextdoor Wars: A look back at move-out madness around UCSD
Smart is not the same as tidy
UC San Diego started out as a brainy beachside experiment in the 1960s, a public university built on the former Camp Matthews military base, sandwiched between pristine La Jolla canyons and some of the most expensive real estate on the West Coast.
It’s where the world’s top oceanographers cracked climate models. Where the internet was tested before most people had dial-up. Where Nobel Prize winners, futurists, and philosophers strolled the eucalyptus groves, pondering and innovating.
It's also where students casually hurl mysteriously stained twin mattresses into the bushes near Villa La Jolla Park. As UCSD's students prepare to return to class this fall, let us pause and look back at the end of last semester. Move-out season.
Move-out season is that time of year when desks, box springs, and microwaves with the ramen still inside start showing up in front yards across La Jolla, like that weird uncle no one invited to the potluck. Lucky residents in La Jolla Village, University City, and around Nobel Drive wake up not to hummingbirds perusing their flowerbeds, but a sun-bleached papasan chair mysteriously parked among the fuchsia. Not exactly what Jonas Salk had in mind when he helped shape the school’s early ethos of “human progress and public good.”
Jonas Salk isn't mad, he's just disappointed.
To be fair, the university provides designated drop-off points on campus. But here's the rub: 60% of UCSD undergraduate students don't live on campus. The result? According to Nextdoor, lovely La Jolla becomes the site an unofficial swap meet for abandoned furniture and college essentials.
Here’s what longtime residents have to say:
“These students have no respect or regard and dump their stuff everywhere. Happens every year.” Kim, Villa Europa complex
“You’d think with Nobel Prize winners on campus, UCSD would be able to figure out mattress disposal.” Mike Frattali
“Actually, this is the height of consumerism. There are laws about littering and dumping objects on public lands.” David Steinhorn
Some commenters pointed out that many nonprofits won’t accept used mattresses. But surely things like desks, chairs, and shelves could absolutely go to local shelters, families, or even back to future students? One wag even suggested that UCSD borrow a page from USD’s EcoExit program, which turns move-outs into donation drives. It has to sting when a private university gets a leg up on the public good.
If UCSD grad Angela Davis could organize global political movements in the ‘60s, one might think today’s students ought to be able to figure out how to donate a coffee table.
Get it together, people.
Here's something you might be interested in.
Nextdoor Wars: A look back at move-out madness around UCSD
Smart is not the same as tidy
Nextdoor Wars: A look back at move-out madness around UCSD
Smart is not the same as tidy
UC San Diego started out as a brainy beachside experiment in the 1960s, a public university built on the former Camp Matthews military base, sandwiched between pristine La Jolla canyons and some of the most expensive real estate on the West Coast.
It’s where the world’s top oceanographers cracked climate models. Where the internet was tested before most people had dial-up. Where Nobel Prize winners, futurists, and philosophers strolled the eucalyptus groves, pondering and innovating.
It's also where students casually hurl mysteriously stained twin mattresses into the bushes near Villa La Jolla Park. As UCSD's students prepare to return to class this fall, let us pause and look back at the end of last semester. Move-out season.
Move-out season is that time of year when desks, box springs, and microwaves with the ramen still inside start showing up in front yards across La Jolla, like that weird uncle no one invited to the potluck. Lucky residents in La Jolla Village, University City, and around Nobel Drive wake up not to hummingbirds perusing their flowerbeds, but a sun-bleached papasan chair mysteriously parked among the fuchsia. Not exactly what Jonas Salk had in mind when he helped shape the school’s early ethos of “human progress and public good.”
Jonas Salk isn't mad, he's just disappointed.
To be fair, the university provides designated drop-off points on campus. But here's the rub: 60% of UCSD undergraduate students don't live on campus. The result? According to Nextdoor, lovely La Jolla becomes the site an unofficial swap meet for abandoned furniture and college essentials.
Here’s what longtime residents have to say:
“These students have no respect or regard and dump their stuff everywhere. Happens every year.” Kim, Villa Europa complex
“You’d think with Nobel Prize winners on campus, UCSD would be able to figure out mattress disposal.” Mike Frattali
“Actually, this is the height of consumerism. There are laws about littering and dumping objects on public lands.” David Steinhorn
Some commenters pointed out that many nonprofits won’t accept used mattresses. But surely things like desks, chairs, and shelves could absolutely go to local shelters, families, or even back to future students? One wag even suggested that UCSD borrow a page from USD’s EcoExit program, which turns move-outs into donation drives. It has to sting when a private university gets a leg up on the public good.
If UCSD grad Angela Davis could organize global political movements in the ‘60s, one might think today’s students ought to be able to figure out how to donate a coffee table.
Get it together, people.