| I'm going to be honest here like everyone else. I am only speaking of my experiences thusfar, so yours is likely to be different from mine. Anyways I came to Berkeley like many of you, an extremely hard worker in high school who was an overachiever and so forth. I expected that people at Berkeley would be just as hard working, bright, diligent students. Well thats not exactly the case. When i arrived, many of the students had no drive or motivation and they basically ended up smoking pot or drinking all night. Approximately half of my floor does pot, which stinks up the hallways and now creeps into my room. Its very disgusting. Classes are another thing. They are often large, impersonal and everyone sleeps in them. Unless you are an engineer you wont find many motivated people. I tried to be an engineer but found the competition way too tough so now am in letters and science. Some classes are pretty easy, but others arent even doable. Honestly, i am quite ashamed at some of the people at Berkeley. Don't get me wrong, im not some arrogant person or anything, but i was extremely surprised about how some people got into this school. Finding lasting friendships is often difficult to accomplish. You wont find many friends in your classes because they are so big and many people sleep through them anyways. I am somewhat of a shy person and many of the people on my floor were very loud, rude, and quite frankly, obnoxious people so i didnt find any people there. Honestly, Berkeley has changed my view on the world in a negative way. Before coming to Berkeley, i was so motivated and excited but now i have a very cynical view of people in general. Everyone here seems to be very pessimistic any always complaining about something.
Hopefully your freshmen experience will be different, but as of now Berkeley has had a very negative aspect on my life. Good luck choosing colleges! |