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<p>do you know how's the architecture major at CAL?</p>

<p>Does Cal block bit torrent clients?</p>

<p>laneb2005 - thank god no. but there is a 5 gig limit on downloads and 5 gig on uploads a week if you live in the dorms. (there are ways to get around that though)</p>

<p>That's a relief.</p>

<p>That'd be cool if they did something like Cingular does with rollover minutes. Call it "Rollover Bandwidth." For every gig you don't download it carries over to the next week! Wanna download every episode of DBZ in one ginormous torrent? No problem! Just save up your bandwidth for a month, and you're good to go! Pwnd!</p>

<p>is there any fear of getting caught for piracy?</p>

<p>Double or triple at units?</p>

<p>Double. Usually the triples in the units are converted doubles (3 people living in a space designed for 2).</p>

<p>ccbound, </p>

<p>absolutely!! alot of my friends got caught, and had to pay considerable settlement. be careful.</p>

<p>Wait, are you serious? So we can download 5 GBs of stuff, as long as its legal stuff? Are there even 5 GBs of legal downloads out there?</p>

<p>Yes. One Linux distro DVD is 4.7 GB alone.</p>

<p>eastcoastbound,</p>

<p>how do you be careful about downloading? would being careful mean not downloading anything illegal? how much did your friends pay?</p>

<p>Are there a lot of African Americans students at Berkeley? I grew up in a predominately African American community (I'm not African American myself) and that's the culture I'm comfortable with.</p>

<p>There are about 800 African American undergrads, and I believe there are AA student groups.</p>

<p>on the downloading, people got caught from using limewire, and the RIAA sued them.</p>

<p>you can download as much as you want (doesn't count against your bandwidth) if you use the DC++ program, which is a p2p thing with people connected to the berkeley network.</p>

<p>Is the senior yea 3.0 GPA requirement averaged over 2 semestes? If so, will having a 2.9 total automatically disqualify my admission? Also, can one write a letter explaining the situation if there is a family or health issue or will the give no consideration to this?</p>

<p>Just limewire?</p>

<p>i want to take chinese at berkeley but i am wondering how rigorous the course load is. any opinions would be helpful</p>

<p>^ I wanted to ask a question of the same nature except how do you juggle taking a foreign language for all 4 years, beginning in freshman year?
It seems like you can't substitute it in place of a R&C or Humanities/Social Science class...so how do students generally do it, by having had lots of AP credits beforehand or can you not take a seminar (I'm an engineer planning to change colleges)?</p>

<p>It was my goal to become fluent in 2 additional languages while at Berkeley. I toopk a foreign language my first semester and didn't find it to be difficult, but tedious. A LOT of work! And 5 days a week, so it created scheduling conflicts. It made for a weird schedule 1st semester. It was too difficult to manage a schedule for 2nd semester so I dropped the language class.</p>

<p>How isolated are the shower stalls from each other (talking about Units 1-3)? I didn't get a chance to check them out during Cal Day, so I'm just wondering how much separation there is between the actual showering sections themselves & the areas where you can change into some clothes and the rest of the bathroom.</p>