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218Gauchos on Lagoon

  • 1 here today
  • 83 this week
  • 144 this month

About one in every 106 UCSB undergrads (Fall ’25 census). Real counts — nothing rounded up, nothing seeded.

since March 2026
87%already share a class with someone else on Lagoon
112students have added their schedule
352class seats mapped, across 185 courses
10friendships — accepted, not just requested

01The climb

The first 100 Gauchos took 6 months. The next 100 took 3 weeks.

Every Gaucho who has ever signed up, day by day. The strip underneath is new sign-ups each day.

02The daily pulse

1 people have opened Lagoon today.

People who opened Lagoon each day for the last 30 days; today counts so far. On an average day, about 1 in 5 of this month's users opens the app.

Average day
28
Best day
51Sep 24
Last 7 days vs the 7 before
-3%

03When campus checks in

Wednesdays are busiest. Sundays, everyone logs off.

Each ring is a weekday, Monday inside to Sunday outside; each slice is an hour. Darker means more people. Hover to read any hour.

04The class clock

Monday at 1:00 PM: peak class o'clock.

How many of the 112 students with a schedule are sitting in class at every moment of the week. Wednesday is in gold.

05Schedules, decoded

What a Gaucho week looks like.

38%have no class on Friday. Three-day weekend energy.
23%are in the 8 AM club — a class that starts before 9.
28%have class running past 6 PM at least once a week.
11:00 AMis the most common start time on campus.
Wednesdayis the busiest day. Hump day is real.
8.8 hrsa week in lecture and section, across 3.1 classes on average.

06Most-shared classes

CHEM 1A is the biggest Lagoon class.

One dot per student on Lagoon. If you're in one of these, your classmates are already here.

  1. 1CHEM 1AGen Chem15
  2. 2THEA 114
  3. 3MATH 4ALin Alg w/Apps12
  4. 4MATH 3BCalc With Appli 29
  5. 5WRIT 2Academic Writing8
  6. 6MATH 4BDiff Equations7
  7. 7ECON 1Principl Econ Micro6
  8. 8MATH 34ACalc For Social Sci6
  9. 9PSY 1Intro To Psych6
  10. 10CHEM 25Intro Chemistry5
  11. 11CLASS 40Greek Mythology5
  12. 12ECON 100BMicroecon Theory5

07Where class happens

Girvetz Hall wins.

Bubble size is how many Lagoon students have class in each building.

  1. 1Girvetz Hall44
  2. 2Phelps Hall32
  3. 3Buchanan Hall27
  4. 4Chemistry Building16
  5. 5North Hall12
  6. 6Psychology Building · not on the map yet9
  7. 7Instructional Development8
  8. 8Arts Building8
  9. 9Music Building6
  10. 10Harold Frank Hall6

08Who's here

Every corner of campus, so far.

Top majors

  • Economics and Accounting B.A.20
  • Economics B.A.11
  • Communication B.A.10
  • Statistics and Data Science B.S.8
  • Computer Science B.S.8
  • Undeclared (Letters and Science)6
  • Psychological & Brain Sciences B.S.6
  • Physics B.S.5
  • Computer Engineering B.S.4
  • Aquatic Biology B.S.4

By year

  • First Year61%
  • Second Year11%
  • Third Year22%
  • Fourth Year5%

61% of the 132 students who set a year are first years.

FIND YOUR PEOPLE

87% already found a classmate here.

Add your schedule and see who's in your classes, compare weeks with friends, and never eat at a closed dining hall again.

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Lagoon users only, not university-wide figures. Internal test accounts are excluded, and a course, building or major appears only once three or more students share it; schedule facts appear only once twenty or more students have a schedule. “Today” and every time of day are Pacific time. A visit is one person opening Lagoon in a given hour on a given day. Updated every 30 seconds (last at 1:37 AM).