<p>are all the invites for TBP sent out? I didn’t get one and I’m pretty sure i’m top 8th.</p>
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When did you get junior standing?</p>
<p>I had 96.5 units before Fall09, and 124.5 units after Winter10.</p>
<p>Junior standing is 90 units right? so I was junior standing before Fall quarter this year</p>
<p>I got acceptance in Material science and engineering. bUT i WANT TO SWITCH TO computer science and engineering. Is it possible to switch? If so, what is the formalities for changing the major?</p>
<p>Somewhat silly question: in looking at campus maps, I see buildings labeled as “Engineering I”; Engineering I Replacement"; and “Engineering IV”. What happened to II and III, do they go by other names?</p>
<p>We will be touring campus during the April 11th open house, wanted to preview everything online first–</p>
<p>@Hariviji: Just tell your orientation counselor that you want to switch majors. It’s easy to switch during orientation.</p>
<p>@riparian: Boelter Hall is Engineering II and III.</p>
<p>Oh, that explains it… Thanks, dtn521!</p>
<p>how is CS M51 with Ercegovac, EE10 with Cabric and EE2 (apparently STAFF is teaching it spring 0_0)?</p>
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<p>i heard you should avoid him.</p>
<p>Ercegovac is a nice guy, I had him for CS 101 and the only other option for a CS M51 teacher is Potkonjak, who is possibly the worst professor in the CS department, so I wouldn’t worry too much about it.</p>
<p>Is it harder to transfer to another engineering department as an international? I plan on transferring from materials to chemical if i go to UCLA. Will this be difficult or a fairly easy process?</p>
<p>hey guys, next qtr im taking:</p>
<p>ee2
ee10
ee102
ee103</p>
<p>just wondering which class I would really need the textbook for (for hw, studying for midterm and finals, etc), cuz I’ve been noticing that sometimes the required textbooks aren’t very useful at all.</p>
<p>Ummm I’d say probably ee10 you could use the textbook to basically self teach yourself, since I think I remember the electric circuits book being pretty clear and straightforward. And when I took ee2 last year there was a course reader with it so the book wasn’t totally necessary.</p>
<p>Also, who are you taking ee102 with? If its balakrishnan that you might want to get the book because I can tell you right now you won’t learn anything in lecture with him.</p>
<p>i’m taking ee102 with Lee
and one more thing, for the 4 courses I listed up there, do any of them give hw problems from the book? I kinda want to buy an older edition if I don’t really need to be looking for the correct hw problems in the latest edition</p>
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<p>It will depend on what kind of learner you are. If you learn from reading books then buy them. If the professor sucks. Buy them. I think you should buy them because you will need them for future classes, they are a good reference. At least the EE 2 and EE 10 books.</p>
<p>EE 2 - Streetman is good, and you will need it for EE 121 with Chui
EE 10 - Nilsson is also a good book, and you will need it for EE 110
EE 102 - I don’t know how Lee teaches so you might need it. I wonder why she’s not using Levan’s book
EE 103 - Jacobsen doesn’t have a required text. He provides the slides. If you’re interested, you can look at Vandenberghe’s [url=<a href=“http://www.ee.ucla.edu/~vandenbe/103/reader.pdf]reader[/url”>http://www.ee.ucla.edu/~vandenbe/103/reader.pdf]reader[/url</a>].</p>
<p>wow very helpful thx grassbandit, but do you kno if buying an earlier edition would be ok too? i really dont have much money, so i’m looking into the previous editions…</p>
<p>You should be fine with an older edition. From my experience, nothing significant changes between two editions. You can always get an ebook copy of the current edition so you can get the problems from them, if needed.</p>
<p>So I just got into Cal for Chemical Engineering, but I’m in sort of a dilemma. I realize Berkeley has a #2 ranking in Chem Engineering and UCLA is around #20-30. </p>
<p>What does the ranking really mean? Is there such a big difference between #2 and #30? </p>
<p>Berkeley engineering has a reputation of being notoriously hard, and since ChemE is one of the harder engineering majors, I’m really worried about the competition and how hard it will be.</p>
<p>UCLA’s environment and campus is amazing. I know I will probably have a better time in LA but I don’t know if it’s worth turning down Berkeley. </p>
<p>I’m not super smart so I think UCLA will be better for me, but since I got into Cal, it’s hard to simply turn it down, when I know I can graduate with a Berkeley engineering degree and get a job much more easily than if I graduate with a UCLA degree. Is this true?</p>
<p>Someone HELP me!</p>
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<p>Rankings means you have some bragging rights. However, UCLA’s ChemE department is small and Berkeley’s ChemE department is part of the College of Chemistry. Berkeley’s Chemistry Department is on a level of its own so there is a good chance that its quality spreads over to ChemE. </p>
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<p>You should consider what other majors you are interested in just in case you decide to switch out of ChemE. I know someone that was a ChemE at Berkeley, but ended up switching to another major within the Chem Dept. because they couldn’t cut it.</p>
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<p>Not true. Networking with company reps will get you a job much easier than the school you went to. It will also depend on your experiences and GPA. What good will a Berkeley degree be if you have a low GPA? I’m not saying that UCLA will be any easier. I’m just trying to make a point.</p>
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<p>It’s 4 years of your life so choose wisely. Sometimes being miserable affects academic performance.</p>
<p>quick question- do they usually just take everyone from the waitlist on physics labs? i know they did that for the physics 6 series labs. i’m on waitlist position 1 for physics 4AL</p>