What are some essential things every Berkeley student needs?

<p>ditto above…hardly anyone uses laptops to take notes in engineering…not very effective when ur trying to copy down equations and diagrams. </p>

<p>professors don’t expect u to bring anything to class but ur brain. how u learn is entirely up to u. attendance for lectures is optional unless ur in one of those useless classes where no one would show up unless attendance is mandatory…sometimes lectures are so ineffective that people will just skip them (watch, after a week or so, half the seats in ur math lecture hall will be empty).</p>