<p>Nice well good luck at Cal. You’re paying good money to be here so take advantage of all the resources and have fun :)</p>
<p>LMAO at adfdd’s 10 things to do to graduate from Berkeley. Sickeningly accurate.</p>
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<p>I’ve been wondering this for years as well :D</p>
<p>I think what OP has brought up is applicable to every undergrad in college.</p>
<p>lmao affddadgsd is spot on. </p>
<p>And I agree with the OP. It’s not that I don’t like learning, but I don’t like that all of my lectures go over my head and after a year of attending all lectures, I just skip it and read the book. It’s so stupid. There’s only one class I am managing to actually care about now and that’s because I go to SLC study groups and go to my GSI who is willing to meet up usually. </p>
<p>Other than that, most people don’t bother to meet up by appointment, and their office hours have way too many people. </p>
<p>The only things good about going here are the people that you get to meet and the part where you get a degree with UC Berkeley written on it. I’m just planning on taking these courses somewhere else after I graduate because I actually want to learn them properly instead of just people saying sh.t that i won’t understand so that they seem smart. </p>
<p><em>dont quote anything i said</em> lol</p>
<p>this is why i told my parents to send me to a private school.</p>
<p>^ Are you sure that the fact that all your lectures go over your head isn’t a reflection on YOU rather than on the professor or school?</p>
<p>You whiners. Stop fantasizing private schools. Yes Berkeley has some bad professors, but are there any schools that don’t? I’d posted a thread earlier about ratemyprofessor ratings averages for schools and Berkeley’s actually came out higher than most of your favorite private schools. </p>
<p>And I agree with Singh, if “all the lectures” are going over your head that’s an indicator of a pretty serious problem with YOU, not with Berkeley.</p>
<p>Yeah whining is pretty pathetic . . . . in all aspects of life really.</p>
<p>I smell ■■■■■, but just for anyone who may come across this topic, there are a few interesting points worth addressing.</p>
<p>Namely: Cal is not a school that will hold your hand throughout the course. It is a top school because of all the resources and opportunities available, including research, access to the top professors, and the availability of rigorous classes. In order to succeed here, you need to figure out what these opportunities are and take advantage of them. Only the top students will succeed here and make it through, and that’s what makes Cal a top college.</p>
<p>The truth of it hurts: if you can’t figure out how to make it through, you’re not one of the top students. The university already extended you the very rare opportunity of being able to attend one of the top colleges in the nation, but whether or not you’d benefit from it depends on you. Those capable people who make it out on the other end represent those who are able to make the best of their opportunities and succeed, hence the reputation of Cal as a top college.</p>
<p>“So far as the mere imparting of information is concerned, no university has had any justification for existence since the popularization of printing in the 15th century.”</p>
<p>-Alfred Whitehead</p>
<p>I basically only go to about 40% of my classes (just the lectures I enjoy). To me, college=degree+graded HW+motivation, since technically anyone can sit in a lecture unless it’s full.</p>
<p>Haters gonna hate.</p>
<p>Besides the obvious that one shouldn’t complain and that whining is pathetic, let’s just think for a second that how would it feel to do rather poorly on the exams and it seems like everything is not going your way. We’ve been there, done that.</p>
<p>I suppose you guys were never whiners. Take it as part of growing up.</p>
<p>I would imagine the people who do not understand why Berkeley is a top school attended just for the prestige of the name and expected it to be just a hoop to jump through on their way to a lucrative career. When I hear arguments like the OP stated, all can say is that you probably chose Berkeley for the wrong reasons and it is not a good fit for you.</p>
<p>Berkeley is hard, and I love it. It is not just hard because of the depth and breadth of the material we tackle in class (I am an Anthro major and my department is amazing), but because it is such a large school. You have to learn how to navigate it on your own. It is a great big school, with thousands of students and an incredible faculty. Not only do you get exposed to some of the most brilliant minds in your field, but you have to become incredibly self-disciplined and become a self-starter. That is another part of the education at a place like Berkeley: learning to be in charge of your own destiny and how to stand out in a vast sea of intelligent students.</p>
<p>At a private, you get somewhat smaller class sizes and more personal attention. You also get grade inflation. At Berkeley your face is lost in a crowd of thousands if you stay quiet and the “grade deflation” myths keep you working even harder. I’ll wait until grad school for the personal attention and to be coddled, but while I am at Cal, I am up for the challenge.</p>
<p>A 3.2 student at Cal probably worked harder and learned more about themselves than a 3.7 from a private. Those qualities will shine through later in life when you demonstrate you can function in a large, stressful environment.</p>
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<p>You’re “up for the challenge” because you’re not in the hard sciences, engineering, or math. That’s the truth.</p>
<p>LOL, y’all, way to kill the mood of an awesome cyber-speech.</p>
<p>Berkeley is hard, and I love it. I am an Anthro major.</p>
<p>Does anyone else see the oxymoron?</p>
<p>One word: berkelium</p>
<p>“You have to learn how to navigate it on your own.”
Great education system. I bet you also follow the Ron Swanson rule: Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Don’t teach a man to fish, and you feed yourself. He’s a grown man. Fishing’s not that hard.</p>
<p>In regards to grade inflation, both public and private have them. Privates just have more statistically, but there are too many factors to simply say privates give out more As due to grade inflation.
Call it complaining, whining, whatever, but Berkeley has been long due for a change in its system.</p>
<p>Lol. I so wish Ron Swanson were real, and that he were running against Obama.</p>