<p>Hey guys, I'm an international student. I got accepted for EECS.
I wanted to know how easy it is for one to get a single room and are freshmen allowed to keep a car?
Also when does the fall session commence? </p>
<p>GO BEARS!!!!!!!!!</p>
<p>Freshmen are allowed a car, but you usually don’t need one in Berkeley unless you plan on living far away, which gets annoying very quickly, or if you plan to go places often.</p>
<p>Freshmen aren’t allowed single rooms in the dorms (there’s no way out of this policy). But you can rent a 1 bedroom or a studio on your own if you want. Most people stay in the dorms for one year and then get an apartment, but there are a few who just skip the dorms entirely.</p>
<p>First day of classes is in the last week of August. Don’t know the exact date. Welcome Week lasts for a week before that.</p>
<p>Thanks for the info
I have heard that there are single rooms at the international house, is it true?</p>
<p>If you’re gonna get a single, I suggest that you just find a studio outright. It’s going to be cheaper, and to be quite frank, your social life won’t differ that much.</p>
<p>Freshmen are allowed to have cars, but I really recommend that you try it without one before you bring one up. I thought I wanted one freshman year; I’m now a junior and don’t think I’ll ever get a car as long as I’m in the more populated parts of the Bay Area. This includes after graduation!</p>
<p>Information about the schedule is available at [UC</a> Berkeley Office of Planning and Analysis](<a href=“http://opa.berkeley.edu%5DUC”>http://opa.berkeley.edu).</p>
<p>Are the studios in the campus only?</p>
<p>housing at Cal is all outside of the perimeter of the campus itself. The dorms are facilities within a few blocks of the campus, but the area is festooned with apartments, frats, sororities, co-ops, and other housing choices, all filled with students. Studio apartments are a term in the US for an apartment where the bedroom is not a distinct room - those apartments with distinct bedrooms are named for the quantity of the sleeping rooms, e.g. one-bedroom. Most of the housing choices will have studio apartments as well as 1, 2 and more bedroom types. If the apartment has a single resident, then having the seating area and television in the same room as the bed is not a problem; you are not likely to keep yourself up by talking on the sofa while you are also sleeping on the bed. Studios require less space and that generally translates into lower costs for a single resident apartment.</p>