Residential Life

The COSMOS residential experience is designed for each student to make new friends, socialize, and enjoy free time while on campus. The friendships students form during these social periods often become long-lasting and rewarding for everyone involved. Resident Advisors (RA’s) are current undergraduate students at UCSD who live on-campus with our students. RA’s are familiar with campus resources, and trained extensively in counseling, advising and activity-planning to help enhance each student’s COSMOS experience.

To supplement the COSMOS academic program, Resident Advisors will work with students to organize events throughout the summer. RA’s within the suites will help arrange activities intended to give students a chance to get to know each other, get some exercise, and have some fun! Signs will be posted regularly in the residence halls announcing these activities. If you have an idea for an activity you would like to suggest, don’t be shy! Share your ideas with your RA’s so that they can plan things that are of interest to you and others. Previous events have included Karaoke Night, Talent Show, COSMOlympics, Ice Cream Socials, Scavenger Hunts, Movie Nights, and a Co-ed Dance.

Expect to enjoy your weekends with off-campus excursions as a COSMOS participant. Some possible field-trip locations are the Wild Animal Park, Balboa Park, La Jolla Shores, Knott’s Berry Farm, and the world-famous San Diego Zoo.

If you like to swim or hang out pool-side, we suggest you bring a swimsuit appropriate for aquatic activities. Since several of our activities may take place at the beach, we highly encourage you to become swim proficient prior to your arrival at COSMOS. (Note that all Cluster 3:Living Oceans participants MUST be officially swim-certified by a lifeguard or swim instructor.)