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 * TALKING POINTS**

1. Talk about yourself
 * a) Why did you choose UCSD
 * b) What's your major and why? What's the most interesting part of your major?
 * c) Do you do research? What's it about?
 * d) Favorite UCSD annual event(Sungod, for example)
 * e) Explain the 6 college system of UCSD and what college you're in

2. UCSD fun facts
 * a) A popular misconception about the library is that the outside columns were added after structural engineers realized they didn't account for the weight of the books the library was supposed to hold. But really it was a design design. They were meant to be inside, but then they put it outside to save space for books inside.
 * b) The Sungod Festival is named after the sungod statue by the Faculty Club
 * c) UCSD was first supposed to be a graduate school, modeled after caltech, as an extension of the Scripps Institute
 * d) The Jacobs School is named after Irvin and Joan Jacobs, who founded the mobile communications and technology company, Qualcomm
 * e) Sixth College (the newest college of UCSD) is still without a name. There has been much effort from the UCSD student community to call it Colbert College.
 * f) The Geisel Library is named after Dr. Seuss
 * g) UCSD has its own power plant located by York Hall in Revelle College
 * h) Our mascot is the Triton, not the Tri-DENT (though many UCSD students think so)
 * i) The UCSD 6 college system is modeled after Cambridge and Oxford University in England.
 * j) The UCSD moto in English is "Let there be Light"
 * k) UCSD does not have a football team, but we do have a rugby team.
 * l) 16 UCSD faculty members have won the Nobel Prize
 * m) UCSD-TV's "Health Matters" production has been honored with an Emmy Award

3. TESC Events, talk about:
 * a) Impulse
 * b) Junkyard Derby
 * c) E-games
 * d) DeCaf
 * e) Broomball
 * f) Date Auction
 * g) Talent Show
 * h) Game nights and movie nights