How much debt is Berkeley worth to you?

arduouspallor
Sun, 27 Mar 2011 22:06:11 +0000

At Berkeley, you’ll have advisers and whatnot, but you’re basically on your own. This sounds kind of scary but you’ll become better at taking initiatives and your willpower grows. Sounds cheesy, but I was a lazya$$ before coming to Berkeley. I’m still lazy, but I feel like if I had gone to a “hand-holding school” (Dunno if UIUC is one, but to give an example: my friend at a small liberal arts college has his adviser find internships for him and he gets advice on basically every step of his college career… which sounds nice but I feel like my friend’s gonna leave thinking everything will just come to him) I wouldn’t have become so independent.

/end cheesiness