<p>Upper-classmen, please give advice to the freshmen including myself so we can gain the best experience at Berkeley with your help.</p>
<p>What advice would you give us to have a more prosperous academic career?
For our social endeavours, what clubs, frats, organizations do you recommend us to join and why?</p>
<p>What do you wish you did during your freshman year or what do you wish you had known?</p>
<p>I’m not an upper-classman, but I would easily suggest making yourself open to the campus. Join a lot of clubs and stick with the ones you favor. You rarely make friends in your classes (since you meet ~2/3 times a week for only 3-4 months), so your real friends will be the ones in your clubs.</p>
<p>Plan your schedule! Freshmen should definitely meet with advisers from their College and plan out their schedule so they don’t end up taking unnecessary classes, forgetting to take required classes, forgetting about certain Requirements, etc. </p>
<p>This is so important, and it will save you a lot of headaches later on…</p>
<p>Think about what you want out of Berkeley, and realize it can offer you virtually anything, and is a huge, huge place. </p>
<p>That involves, as a subset, MechRocket’s suggestions. One can go to college anywhere and find buddies to relax with, but one should think about where one is and see what could be special: socially, academically, and otherwise…</p>
<p>Don’t commit suicide?</p>
<p>Explore Berkeley, Oakland, SF. Really, explore these places. There are so many students that cling to the ****-stained streets of telegraph and never really experience the local culture or environment.</p>
<p>If you can fit it in your schedule, study a language. Either continue studying the one you studied in high school, or start a new one. My biggest regret of my time in college was not learning another language.</p>
<p>Talk to current students. Lots of them. Do what you want to do. Don’t feel obliged/pressured into doing anything you don’t want to do, but have an open mind.</p>
<p>take part in your dorm’s hall association</p>
<p>I agree with mrniphty. If I could go back, I’d minor either French or Chinese.</p>
<p>go to thai basil</p>
<p>Don’t go to Thai house.</p>
<p>Do go to gypsies</p>