<p>Hmm, just wanted to start a thread for berkeley english majors to discusssss. I hope I am not the only English major transfering to Cal on cc. </p>
<p>Let me start by saying that though I am majoring in English but my real focus and career aspiration lies in creative writing. What are your guys areas of interest/ study? </p>
<p>I also am bothered by the fact that transfers are considered the dumbest of the dumb at Cal. With that in mind, I enter Cal with a bit of a chip on my shoulder; wanting to prove everyone wrong. Are any of you guys with me on that one?</p>
<p>English major here. I live in Berkeley and hang out with alot of UC folk, so you can imagine how hard it has been being a JCer and hanging with the smarties. So yeah, I guess I do have a bit of a chip and something to prove now that I am in... :)</p>
<p>Do you have all your prereqs done? What are you planning on taking?</p>
<p>Nope, I don't have all my Cal pre-reqs done. I think I still need to take a Shakespeare class. Hmmm, what am I taking? Lol, I have no clue. I wish I knew more about the program. I just know you can get a interdepartmental concentration in creative writing, no? Yeah I want to get that...Darn, my ignorance about the Cal english program is already giving us english major transfers a bad name. Someone shoot me. =[</p>
<p>Yeah, I am not even sure they have a creative writing concentration. I know there are some awesome profs that teach creative writing courses though.</p>
<p>I thought I was going to get rejected before, so I didn't spend much time on the department website. Now I feel a bit behind.</p>
<p>Have you completed the 45 series (English Lit surveys)? I don't think most CCCs offer 45B (19th C.) and 45C (20th C.)</p>
<p>already did my SIR, but am ****ed that I have to wait till tomorrow to get an email address. I want to be on facebook NOW!</p>
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<p>I'm not an English major but hell yeah I want to kill the stereotype, i.e. the ridiculous assumption that high school perfomance is the only way to measure student worth. I expect all of you transfers to suck it up and work to the top of your Berkeley classes :)</p>
<p>hey guys,
i just got accepted and i am gonna major in rhetoric. maybe some of you guys will be interested. i did not know of this major until i lived with a cal grad that completed this major. it is only offered at berkeley. the link below will have more info than i can explain. check it out.</p>
<p>I don't have to worry so much about being identified as a transfer student, I think. Who's going to know, honestly? I do sort of feel the need to prove that coming from a CC doesn't inherantly mean I've an inferior intellect, but I also think that I need to go to school on my own terms or I'll never finish it the way I want to.</p>
<p>So, while it would be cool to go "nyah nyah" in the general direction of the unbelievers, I'm more interested in going "nyah nyah" in general and graduating with honors for my own sake. ^^</p>
<p>wildebeest: Hah! I have to wait until October to get an email address, so my facebook gets to pretend I'm still going to UCSC. :(</p>
<p>I'm a CCCer debating between Spring UCB and Fall UCLA.
I'm drawn to the rich campus life of UCLA, but the academic reputation of Berkeley is quite alluring as well...What should I do? Is anyone on my boat?</p>
<p>I plan to teach freshman & junior level English classes in high school, preferably Honors/AP. My goal is to have every student of mine learn how to articulate him/herself on paper, because the ability to do so is VITAL in today's society. Speech, verbal or written, is often equated to one's intellingence.</p>
<p>At the end of the spring quarter, I will have completed my last class of the 45 series. I have taken Chicano Literature, African-American Literature, Introduction to Poetry, Introduction to Shakespeare, and 3 composition classes in preparatin for my major. I also took Spanish 6 for Irvine's requirements.</p>
<p>Great thread, BTW. Oh, and Cardinalfocused, are you waiting for Stanford still?</p>
<p>Go to Berkeley Bokchoi. It has the upper hand on UCLA in terms of the English department (according to many professors at my cc). And as you mention, Cal has the edge on prestige as well. </p>
<p>Nah I ain't waiting on Stanford. I actually never applied. I'm super stoked about being a bear though!!!</p>
<p>But academic prestige alone isn't enough to convince me to go there, though...AHHH. Don't get me wrong, I'm allured to that myself...but UCLA has that atmosphere! I already missed out on the first 2 years of campus life...I want to love my next 2 years.</p>
<p>Go UCB, unless your "atmosphere" is laying around on the beach and hanging with rich people in Santa Monica. Berkeley is a really vibrant town, and you can WALK so many places, which I think is key for a college student. If you are a partier, I can attest to the party that occurred at my neighbors yesterday that kept me up (keep in mind this is finals cruch time for berkeley).</p>
<p>The UCB English Graduate program is usually either ranked 1 or 2 next to Yale in USNEWS. Those are the people that are going to be teaching you, so...</p>
<p>I've visited Berkeley MANY times, actually...I know Telegraph like the back of my hand. I've been obsessed with the school since I was in the 8th grade, and a lot of my birthday presents in the past 6-7 years have been Cal-related, ranging from a stuffed bear to various articles of clothing. Now that I've been accepted into UCLA, though, I'm having second thoughts, because I don't want to go somewhere JUST for the academic prestige alone (I had a very Asian mentality back then). Oh, and I'm not a partier...I don't drink, and I've never been to a club in my life. There's so much more to do around UCLA, that's all...things are open late, and it's just a fun area. Beyond a 2 mile radius of the UCB campus, everything's quite dirty, ghetto, and maybe even scary.</p>
<p>HAHA...Thanks for the love, Cardinal :D
It's such a difficult decision to make...and I'm dreading every day that goes by without one.
I chose to continue my education at a CCC for a second chance at Cal...but now, I'm so torn in between. AHHH.</p>
<p>Dude I got drunk with friends at Berkeley the other day. In the middle of me inebriation, I submit my SIR. Perhaps you should follow suit--it certainly makes the decision easier. Get wasted and then submit your SIR hahahah....that the way we CC kids get down =]</p>