<p>Its the reservoirs, not the aquifers that are drying up. And for the record, the reservoirs have the double wammy of a snow pack that is running out, and silting with is slowly going to reduce the volume of water the aquifers can hold.</p>
<p>^ True. One silver lining is that studies have suggested California will get more wet with global warming (El Nino winters). Due to high elevation of the Sierras, snowpack may increase.</p>
<p>Other option is build desalination plants powered from nuclear energy.
Challenges of a growing state…:p</p>
<p>Unfortunately for California, I think that water resources are the least of its problems right now. The same goes for New York State.</p>
<p>poor ol’ New York…</p>
<p>what happened to the good ole’ days when the worst thing that happened to a state was that its governor was arrested for spending over 15k on prostitutes.</p>
<p>does anyone have anything to offer about the internships from Cornell. Considering Cal’s location, it doesn’t seem like it’d be difficult to find opportunities there. However, Cornell’s location is not as prime for such internships…
Do you need to go through alumni connections to get good jobs and internships during the summer/ after Cornell? has anyone ever had/ known anyone who’s had a hard time?</p>
<p>The Cornell name will help you get whatever internships or co-ops you need. You can’t do an internship during the school year anyway so Cornell’s location is moot. My roommate, for example, did his co-op at a Norcal firm.</p>
<p>My son did his internship at Amazon, and said there were about 15 Cornell kids in the program. The on-campus recruiting (senior year) had lots of top-notch firms as well.</p>
<p>hmm, so if im interested in berkeley and cornell engineering (instate for berkeley), at what point would you guys say cornell is worth it over berkeley. is there a money value advantage that you would give cornell over berkeley or is it better to just go to berkeley?</p>
<p>In response to jamescchen’s comments on the first page.</p>
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<li><p>Agree</p></li>
<li><p>Cal also has free tutoring; it is available at the dorms and on campus.
If you are majoring in engineering, you don’t have to worry as much about getting shut out of classes. If you need to take a class during a certain semester in order to graduate, you can petition to the College of Engineering to be placed in the class. The only engineers I know of who complain about not being able to get their classes are the ones who are too lazy to do this.
The biggest problem is that not all engineering technical electives are offered every semester, so you will either have to take it a different semester, or choose another course instead.</p></li>
<li><p>Agree (for the most part). In Fall 2007, the College of Engineering tried to standardize the freshmen curriculum in engineering so it would be easier to switch majors. The EECS and BioE departments didn’t really go along with it, so it is harder to switch into those majors.</p></li>
<li><p>At Cal, you take 4 courses per semester freshmen and sophomore year, and 5 courses per semester junior and senior year. Cal engineering students graduating in 5 or 6 years in complete bull****. Everyone in the college of engineering has a faculty adviser they must meet with once per semester to review the courses they are taking and make sure they are on track to graduate in 4 years. If you were admitted to the university for the fall of your freshmen year, then you can petition to stay for 1 extra semester (max 4.5 years to graduate). If you were admitted to the university for the spring of your freshmen year, then you are given 1 extra semester and may petition for 1 more (max 4.5 years to graduate from the spring you entered the university).
The budget cuts suck, and have forced the math department to cut the number of discussion sections per week in Math 1a and 1b from 3 to 2.
On the other hand, the budget cuts also meant that the size of my physics class last semester was cut to ~80 or 90 students.</p></li>
<li><p>Students are guaranteed two consecutive years of housing, but most people move into apartments after the first year.</p></li>
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<p>Cal is rated #2 in Engineering in general. Unless you are planning on doing Engineering Physics (where Cornell is #2 and Cal is #3), Cal is a better school. At Cal you have to fend for yourself, so if you need a helping handwhich is always nicedon’t go there, but to say that Cornell students are more competitive is ridiculous.</p>