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Undergraduate Colleges /
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Humor & Trivia |
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- The acronym UCI has often been jokingly claimed to stand for "Under Construction
Indefinitely" (due to the recent surge of growth and construction activity on campus), or "University of Chinese Immigrants" (due
to UCI's exceptionally high number of Asian American, more specifically
Chinese, students).
- Because of UCI's lack of a football team and general apathy towards athletics, some students enjoy making sarcastic comments
about how "Anteater football remains undefeated!".
- A popular chant among UCI students during athletic events is "Zot"... the sound made by the tongue of the anteater in the
comic strip B.C. as it flicks out to catch an ant.
- Several of the Brutalist buildings at UCI were involved in the production of
the original Planet of the Apes.
- The school was featured in the newer production of Ocean's 11. In the
movie, the building where the crew steals the EMP device is actually the Gillespie Neuroscience Research Facility located in the
College of Medicine.
- The floor plan of the Science Library closely resembles the Enterprise from Star
Trek. However, Some believe that the Science Library and the design on the plaza directly in front of it represent the human
reproductive system, a theory lent credence by the fact that both are located in the School of Biological Sciences.
- Blizzard Entertainment, a PC game developer, has
its headquarters on UCI land. Its facilities are purported to be nondescript.
- Broadcom Corporation, one of the top technology
companies in the world, will be relocating its Irvine operations to UCI's University Research Park. (2005)
- All the residence halls in Middle Earth are named after places in the Lord of the Rings.
- Ring Road, the circular road that passes through the entire campus, is around a mile in circumference. The road's name and
the Middle Earth housing complex might have some relation.
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| The number of students who study the Russian language in U.S. colleges has dropped in half since the end of the Cold War. Chinese, on the other hand, has doubled. |
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