Pipes, Swammi's, Moonlight, Carlsbad?
At San Diego State, closest spot was North Ocean Beach, next to the jetty... 15 minutes, 8 miles, from freeway entrance to beach parking lot. I can't tell you how many times we split after dinner in the dorm cafeteria to hit the "evening glass off" during daylight savings time in the fall.
When the waves got big I took advantage of friends who went to Cal Western... now Pt Loma College, overlooking Sunset Cliffs. They'd get me a guest parking pass... hike down the trail to the cliffs, drop down to the beach and paddle about 300yds out to the waves.... Newbreak, North AB, South AB... etc. I also had a buddy whose family owned a small trailer in Encinitas... so we would surf a totally private area call Grandview St..... Swami's was always crowded, so we rarely went there. The best known place in San Diego is Windandsea in La Jolla..... lots of bad ass locals.. like newport beach, but fabulous waves.
I was always a longboarder... and the most popular place was Tourmaline park, a dedicated surf area just north of Pacific Beach. Lots of oldtimers, like me, still hang there. But my all time favorite place is San Onofre, the point, not the clubhouse.... back then it was a private club but I was a military dependent so I could get in.... San Onofre is just south of the very famous Trestles..... totally off limits in those days (1964) which made it even that much more of an adventure.
So the rule for the first two years at State was: No classes before 10am or after 3pm. Only one night class per semester. Surf in the am... class...eat..surf till dark... study...then repeat. Things changed quite a bit when I had to get a job.... but that was later. 18 years old, a freshman at SDSU, living in the dorms, Dad's paying the first year so no job needed......... Damn... it doesn't get any better than that.