| dhl3,
I was reading your posts and laughing to myself because I feel the exact same way here at Cal so I'm guessing all the UC's are like that. I remember about a year ago reading reviews on Yelp for Berkeley from previous students and one student made a comment that when he was in CC he was always happy to get his A's but when he got to Cal he was excited when he got his B's and relieved in a couple of classes to get C's. I remember being pretty sure of myself and thinking these people don't study like I do so I'm going to do just as well in the UC as I did at the CC. I was in for a huge adjustment that first semester and now I understand what those students were talking about. This semester has been great (much better that my first semester) but it took that first semester to wake me up to reality that it is way different than my lower division classes at the CC. I also agree with previous posts that its an insane amount of reading, that really takes a lot of discipline to keep on track. Actually, I can't imagine being on a quarter system as its difficult enough on a semester system. |