<p>How have your experiences in EECS been?</p>
<p>Hardest/easiest classes?
Hardest/easiest assignments?
Amount of work?
Best experience?
Worst experience
Anything else you can throw in here?</p>
<p>Someone committed suicide…</p>
<p>Who committed suicide?</p>
<p>Pics or it didn’t happen.</p>
<p>(Or a newspaper article.)</p>
<p>Im just messing but there are certainly a lot of depressed students in UC Berkeley. </p>
<p>Rawit, here is a survey regarding EECS students. This survey includes EECS students’ own words and opinions about their social and academic experience in Berkeley. </p>
<p><a href=“http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/education/usli/Surveys/COE/c2002.pdf[/url]”>http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/education/usli/Surveys/COE/c2002.pdf</a></p>
<p>Regarding suicides, there were a couple of undergrad and grad students who committed suicide. Sather Tower used to be a popular suicide point. “Of the 3,500 students that use the Counseling and Psychological Services at the Tang Center each year, 30 to 40 percent suffer from a form of depression.” And those are only the students who used the service…</p>
<p>Just go on google and type in UC Berkeley suicide. You will have more than enough to read about. People who commit suicide while in Berkeley and after graduating from Berkeley. Why do I think this is related to EECS? EECS and chemE probably compose of some of the smartest kids, making the pressure and competition unbearable. Some young people are unfamiliar to such feelings. </p>
<p>According to this article [Asian</a> Americans’ Rising Suicide Rates – Three Students Take their Lives - NAM](<a href=“New America Media”>New America Media)</p>
<p>13 of every 21 students who committed suicide are Asian. Why are we still not acknowledging this?..</p>
<p>Often EECS majors say: EE 126 is one of the hardest classes. CS 150 is one of the most, if not the most work intensive course.</p>
<p>Most intense CS classes: CS 150, CS 152, CS 162, and any class with Prof. Hilfinger.</p>
<p>This is just what I’ve heard from other people, as I’ve yet to take an upper div yet.</p>
<p>Easiest: CS3 I guess? I’ve never taken it before but most people get an A or B in that class.</p>
<p>Hardest/Easiest out of the 61 series: I felt 61B was the easiest and 61C the hardest, but I think it really depends on the person. 61B is more abstract and closer to theoretical CS. 61C is more of a practical approach and you learn the basics behind how your computer works, down to the actual logic short of using actual physics to describe the circuits. I felt 61C was harder in that there’s simply much more information crammed into that course compared to 61B. The material isn’t wasn’t necessarily harder to understand but there’s just so much of it. The algorithms and data structures taught in 61B were very intuitive and relied on problem solving skills, as opposed to the information cramming done in 61C.</p>
<p>Here’s the EECS courses I’ve taken so far ranked from hardest to easiest (based on my personal experiences, of course):</p>
<p>EE 126
CS 61B
EE 20
EE 40
EE 120
CS 61A
CS 3L</p>
<p>Best experience: EE 20/120 (especially 120)
Worst experience: EE 126</p>
<p>Based on what I’ve heard, the hardest classes are any taught by Hilfinger (notably CS 61B and CS 164), EECS150, and EE 142. EE 141 and CS 162 are also supposed to be pretty tough.</p>
<p>Be sure to form study groups and check out hkn.eecs.berkeley.edu for course surveys and previous exams. If you’re ever struggling, either go to office hours or consider HKN tutoring (free tutoring M-F 11-5 p.m. in 290 Cory and 345 Soda).</p>