<p>You don’t really need a laptop. Obviously, the portability of one is nice, but I only take my laptop out of my room once or twice a week generally.</p>
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I recommend bringing just your laptop. You don’t need to have a laptop, but the portability makes it easier to study and work in groups on campus. :rolleyes:</p>
<p>Thanks for the responses, I figured a laptop would be a good idea, I really just wanted my desktop for gaming, but it seems I won’t have much time for gaming anyways.</p>
<p>flopsy,</p>
<p>I’m still undecided on which EE pathway I should choose. I’m currently interested in the MEMS, Solid State, and Microwave pathways. The MEMS curriculum seems to be all over the place, but it looks interesting. I know Solid State is a lot of physics, and I was thinking of taking some Solid State classes if I decided to do the MEMS pathway, if time permits. Something like fitting EE 123A/123B/124 somewhere in there. After all they do share the EE 129D course as the design course. I was also thinking of doing the Antennas and Microwave pathway because it looks like it would be more marketable.</p>
<p>What do you suggest? What have you heard of these EE pathways? What are the pros and cons?</p>
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I honestly have heard nothing about the MEMS/Solid State/Microwave pathways… I just assumed everyone who wasn’t EEBME or EECE did Integrated Circuits for their pathway. :rolleyes:</p>
<p>Well a lot people that I’ve talked to are doing the IC pathway. I only know of one person that is doing the Signals and Systems pathway. Why are so many EE majors doing IC?</p>
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Because it’s the easiest? :rolleyes:</p>
<p>I know lots of people who do Signals and Systems (including me) because it’s very flexible you can take all the classes in the IC pathway (sans M116C which is the dreaded Computer Architecture course) and you get a lot of labs and design courses to choose from.</p>
<p>I just took a quick glance at the 2007-08 Announcement and you’re right, Signals and Systems has a greater selection of classes to choose from. However, I’m not too interested in it at this point. </p>
<p>Citan, why did you choose Signals and Systems? How important will my pathway choice be when I start looking for a job post B.S.?</p>
<p>I don’t think it matters that much. I am taking Signals and Systems because I liked the flexibility (and I can still take all the IC courses). Furthermore, when you are just starting out they will not ask you that many technical questions in an interview anyway…just go with what you are interested with. Watch out for the IC pathway though…a course like 115B is only offered in Winter so if you are like me who is graduating in Winter and don’t get to take that due to scheduling problems then you are screwed. Flexibility in EE is always better.</p>
<p>BTW, I completely disagree with flopsy, IC is not the easiest pathway. The 115 series is notoriously difficult.</p>
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Yes. EE 115AL/115BL are difficult. :rolleyes:</p>
<p>Flopsy/anyone else:
I just want your opinion on this.
Would you choose to attend UCB over UCLA for Mechanical Engineering? Why?</p>
<p>^ please look through all the other threads done on this…</p>
<p>if you like Berkeley better, go there. if you don’t, come here. it won’t matter one way or another, you won’t get any less of an education here, and you won’t have fewer opportunities for research or internships here. and it’s not like you’ll be a better engineer just because you went to Berkeley…the material is all the same, and the teachers probably are too because these are UCs, where the profs are researchers first, and not CSUs, where they’re teachers.</p>
<p>So you’re encouraging me to attend Berkeley since it’s closer to home?</p>
<p>Do you prefer Berkeley just because it is closer than UCLA?</p>
<p>Yeah…and it helps that it’s ranked #3 overall.</p>
<p>If I factor in the amount of money it would take me to fly back and forth between LAX and San Jo, I’ll end up paying the same for both schools. My school is on the semester system and so is CAL. It’s not far from home and I don’t have to come home after every quarter (travelling x + x miles to and fro).</p>
<p>TheIcon</p>
<p>It sounds like you are seriously leaning towards Berkeley, and you’ve basically made the decision by yourself.</p>
<p>I was accepted to Berkeley’s Chemical Engineering, ranked #2 overall, as a transfer and I gave it up for UCLA. Why did I do that? The answer is simple, I live in the Bay Area so visiting Cal was easy for me, thanks to BART, and I instantly found that the environment wasn’t for me at this stage in my life. However, I’m sure you’ll find people that have said that about UCLA. Although I personally don’t see a reason why, but everyone is allowed an opinion.</p>
<p>Another thing to think about is your future after your undergraduate years. I personally don’t plan to stop at a B.S., and Cal, although highly known for its undergrad, is even more revered for it’s graduate study.</p>
<p>I hope you come to a resolution soon, as I went through the same turmoil as you until I finally arrived at my final decision.</p>
<p>MadeInChina or any other CS 32 survivors:</p>
<p>It’s one week away from my CS 32 finals! Can you guys tell me about the finals? Someone who took this with Smallberg last quarter told me that you pretty much guess at the solutions. Is it really hard? really time-consuming? Did you guys have any chance to study for the final on top of project 4 and hw 5? At the moment, I find that incredible.</p>
<p>I got well above average on the midterm, thanks to your advice, because I deliberately paced myself during the exam and got lots of partial credits. I’m worried about the final though, cuz I find the stuff (sorting algorithms, efficiency, etc) we covered after the midterm pretty hard… btw I think professor Smallberg is so awesome! and really hope that he will teach cs 33 next fall. now what are the chances of that? Thanks for your help!</p>
<p>I thought the CS 32 final was pretty much like the midterm, except with more topics. I didn’t think there was a lot of guessing…
it was very straight-forward (not read easy), but there was a lot of work as opposed to being tricky…</p>
<p>in the spring, smallberg is sure to teach cs 33 (he was the only one)…but don’t know about fall though.</p>
<p>Flopsy, u’re graduating this quarter, aren’t u?</p>