To elaborate on part of why I don't like it here, there's a big difference between going to a small, liberal arts college like Pomona and a huge public university like UCI. It's very impersonal here. My professors don't know me, and they're not really putting in the effort to get to know any of us. On the flip side, I could go introduce myself, but even then I'm not sure they would care. My quantum professor also doesn't teach us anything. He doesn't collect the homework, which he assigns a lot of, and he doesn't teach us how to do anything on it. I have no idea how I'm going to pass this class. And by pass I mean get a B-, since you can't get below that or you fail out. I also don't like that I live 30 min away from my classes. I have to take a shuttle and then walk 10-15 min. I might as well have lived off campus. Then I could at least justify buying a parking permit and driving to school. Everything here is such a bureaucracy, and nothing runs smoothly at all.

People-wise, it's ok. There are some people I like well enough, but there are others that drive me up a wall.