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royrules22 - Do you have any control on who your roommate(s?) is, or is it completely random?
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<p>Well you and a friend can request to be roomates and you will get in. In fact if you request a roomate you are more likely to get a room you want. Or if you want a random roomate you can answer a few questions to narrow down the potential canidates (i.e. non-smoking, etc).</p>
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What specifically are you finding hard about the EECS program (How, or in what ways is it so difficult?)? Was the transition difficult going from high school work load to EECS work load?
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<p>Well the classes are hard. Also I was just not prepared for the work load. For me (except for a select few) all my classes in High School were effing easy. I really didn't have to study and even if I did it would be last minute. There is no ****ing chance you can do that at Cal. You better be prepared to study your ass off here. Firstly the topics are covered more indepth here, and atleast for my classes there is a lot more theory than just number crunching. Be sure to understand the WHY and HOW of things. If you just memorize formulas (which you mostly never have to do anyway thanks to the invention that is the cheat sheet), and learn how to plug it in you will be royally screwed. Do your homework... thrice. Do all your worksheets. Go to office hours (I kick myself for not realizing this sooner), ask help. Usually though unless you are in a weeder course the curve won't hurt you that much if it does.</p>
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How do you learn what all those numbers and letters that you add to courses mean? I mean, I'd get something like Lit 101 but how do you know what to take first semester and is it possible to find, say, a first semester workload that is relatively simplistic, to ease yourself into this new life? I'm not a slacker, but I am not interested in getting through college with great speed. I want to be able to enjoy it. Thanks!
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<p>Well you have to look through the schedule and your college's website (i.e for cs go to cs.berkeley.edu) and they should have your requrements. They'll teach about CCNs and stuff at CalSO so don't worry about it.</p>
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I am in for EECS and a RCSA sheet recommends me to take Physics 7a the first semester first year.</p>
<p>Is that class hard? Which professor would you recommend (preferably easy but still teaches something...)? And my current high school AP Physics class is a joke; so will I be screwed when taking Physics 7a?</p>
<p>Are EECS students competitive to the point where they won't help each other? Are study groups prevalent?</p>
<p>Thanks a lot.
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<p>Well I found it hard... I got a B- and just blanked out on my final <em>doh</em>. Or maybe I'm just an idiot. We never had AP Physics in my school, only Honors. And the class was a joke, and I took it even less seriously. Really the kinetics part you should be able to do (esp. if you had AP). It's when you get to Rotational, waves, pressure (I effing hated this part) that it gets tough. It's more or less the fact that the tests are hard and pretty effing long. Learn the concepts and you should generally do fine. Also don't forget to do the homework (looking at the answer key from DC++ doesn't count), the worksheets, and RTFB (read the ****ing book).</p>
<p>As for the teacher, well I can't really tell but mostly they are generally the same. Except some are harder than the others in terms of their tests (but the curve's usually pan out). </p>
<p>As for being competitive, I have not seen that. Than again none of my CS classes had a curve that could hurt the others (in fact I don't even think it had a curve). So I can't tell for certain, but while everyone is competitive they're not cut-throat.... so far. </p>
<p>Study groups... yea I've seen them. But I'm not in one, and neither are some of my friends. I guess it would be useful if you actually study together (and not all of you are dumb).</p>