University of California-Berkeley Top Questions

I wish I had really understood fully the impact of California's budget cuts and the great expense of tuition here before coming to UC Berkeley.

I wish I would have looked into the kind of clubs that the school offered. I feel like I am finding things i like and it's a little too late now that I am going to be a senior.

I wish that I had known that Berkeley is a very competitive school to get into and compete in. The science classes are very difficult but after a little time and hard studying, they are very manageable. The city is a lot different yet it is beautiful. I have grown up a lot and become very independent since I moved to Berkeley.

Lot of club opportunity and more contacts

Academic and personal success is not measured by how many hours you spend in the library or by being bookish. It is about having passion and conviction for what you are learning and allowing that shape the person you are. Personal discovery and a strong sense of self is just as crucial to doing well in life as doing well in school. Pick yourself up when you encounter adversity or if you fail at something. The road is long and there are many future opportunities awaiting you. Love and be good to yourself.

there are 11 biology majors on campus; just because one seems to house more than 50{4a082faed443b016e84c6ea63012b481c58f64867aa2dc62fff66e22ad7dff6c} of the biology student population doesn't mean it's the best one

I wish I had prepared better and work harder.

I would have liked to know more about the resources available to me, such as the career center, libraries, and computer facilities. I would have also liked to know the locations of buildings near and around campus better. Transportation was intially difficult, so it would have helped to learn how to use the bus system. College can be extremely intimidating at first, but once you learn how things work, everything seems simpler. Had I known all of this, my transition to college would have been much easier.

I wish I had known how to be comfortable with the differences between myself and the other students on campus. Although I excluded myself from groups based on these differences, the Berkeley experience is all about combining our unique backgrounds in such a way as to effect change on a campus, national, international, and global level. By including input from other, possibly alien, sources, ideas for improvement are more effective and have greater potential permanence.

How often it's actually freezing and raining. Also, that this school is a LOT tougher than your standard LAUSD high school.