About Berklee Housing/Meals/Operations

RockBandMom
Tue, 11 Sep 2012 23:32:43 +0000

Shellybean and others…

I just want to reiterate that the classes at Berklee are first rate. The rest of the operations are not. Although I think my daughter liked registering for classes better with a new system they just implemented, and they have moved to gmail for the student’s mail, which I guess is an improvement. However, other stuff is just slow. For example, my daughter was complaining about ensemble room (larger practice rooms) registration (not working yet, even though kids were on campus as of last Sunday and classes started yesterday.)

But so far sophomore year is better than her freshman year. She has a wonderful roommate. I’ll let you know more about the food later. She didn’t want to go to the YMCA by herself last year, which is down the street, hence no exercise besides walking to class, but she may have found a workout partner this year.

As far as drugs, my daughter stayed away from all of that last year. She studied like crazy. I don’t really know if it is worse than other schools, but I do know you can stay away from it. Made dean’s list both semesters, but it is NOT like a normal college with sports, etc.

When I say carbs, I mean simple starches, lots of them. Starches are cheap. Noodles, breads, pancakes, desserts, etc. As I said, they do have a salad bar, but my daughter wasn’t too impressed with it. She likes meat and veggies. It is an all you can eat cafeteria so your son certainly wouldn’t starve. It would be impossible! It is just that her cafeteria bill has another line item added onto it, take out food. There are some great places to eat near Berklee!

Hope this helps!