<p>@ solidblu: After reading your post above, I’m also positive that Berkeley is the right school for you too lol. You are going to be blown away when you see Telegraph man! I’m not trying to get your expectations up ridiculously high, but I just know you’re going to love it. I, like both of you guys, have jumped around in my political/social/religious beliefs (currently Independent and Agnostic), and I know that I’ll be able to engage in similar groups and conversations that will only accentuate my own understanding of the world. </p>
<p>I really look forward to meeting and discussing all of these things with you guys in the fall! Keeping my fingers crossed haha.</p>
<p>Haha, I’m actually planning on getting a degree in Mathematics and Peace and Conflict Studies. I don’t really know what I want to do but I would be happy being a research professor, development economics, etc, etc…</p>
<p>I applied as an Applied Math major but I may change that to Pure Math… Any necessary application can be learned at the graduate level and I find pure mathematics fascinating.</p>
<p>Are you thinking of staying a 5th year? I was told it will be nearly impossible to graduate as a transfer as a 4th year with two majors. Thanks to the Blue & Gold program, staying a 5th year may be financially possible!</p>
<p>@ Extention0: According to the responses on this thread, yes, we’re the only ones. We have a few parallels, the most notable of which being that we’re both signed up for summer school at UCB, however, I received the first e-mail sent to “Students” before I applied to summer school. Due to this, I have no clue what to think of these e-mails…but I’m trying to stay hopeful and not let it get to my head.</p>
<p>A current student at UCB also mentioned in this thread that he has received the same e-mails.</p>
<p>@ mikei: LOL for some reason I thought you were a phil major. My mistake for the misunderstanding. Applied math, wow, that’s great. I wish I was motivated and interested enough in math to be able to understand the complex formulas and laws. I’ve been never been too keen on math though.</p>
<p>I would love to stay a 5th year, but I don’t know if I will be able to. It would cost more money, and additionally, I’m not sure if Berkeley would allow that. I do hope to stay for an extra semester though.</p>
<p>That’s awesome that you aspire to be a researcher/professor (possibly) as well.</p>
<p>solidblu- reading what you just said gave me the goosebumps. we have so much in common.</p>
<p>im an anthro major concentration in archaeology and i proclaimed myself an agnostic and then an atheist a couple of years ago and my mom still cant get over it.</p>
<p>just saw that I had received the email in question. I did not apply to UCB for fall 2010. Sorry if that upsets anyone, but emails about R&C curriculum, among other things, do not mean anything other than your email is in the UCB database.</p>
<p>@jane I thought I was all alone. My mom once proclaimed that the only reason I’ve had any success in life was because of the devil. She’s mended her harsh ways and is more accepting and loving now. So, maybe yours will come around :)</p>
<p>still no dice on the e-mail :(. @mikei if ur passion lies in pure math id say go for it. honestly i am having conflicts about my major right now. I love math(im already teaching myself set theory and proof logic) just for the hell of it. yet im a mech eng.</p>
<p>Even for those (including myself) who haven’t received the e-mails, I wouldn’t fret too much. It may be a sign that the people receiving the e-mails have been accepted (hopefully for ya’ll!!) or it may not be. If you feel that you are a competitive student, then I wouldn’t worry about having NOT received the e-mail. For me, I have a 3.93 GPA with all prereqs completed and some good EC’s and I feel pretty confident about my chances. I’m not saying this to be arrogant, I’m just saying it to give those who haven’t gotten the e-mails some hope! </p>
<p>In any case, we will only know when admissions decisions are officially released; until then, we can only speculate and it’ll only serve to stress us out more than we already are. :)</p>
<p>nah she loves me and is actually proud of what i want to do but she just cant get over it. we are good friends but when shes ticked off its one of her cards against me, “devil, satan, demon possessed” etc…</p>
<p>Given that this IS a sign of acceptance, which I honestly believe it is not, those worrying about having not received the emails are forgetting the fact that the chances of the admissions office having already judged their applications are unlikely.</p>
<p>Yeah, I’d definitely say you are an extremely competitive applicant and no ego should be detected in your confidence.</p>
<p>Regarding your major, what are you thinking about? Are you thinking about becoming a less-applied major as well? Physics or Pure Mathematics by any chance?</p>
<p>precisely that. physics and math are two of my most favorite subjects. i am dying in chemistry right now(really really bad professor) but am loving every moment of physics and math. somedays i just think to myself i should switch since ive always been fascinated by theoretical physics. pretty much any physics beyond classical E&M is abstractly modeled by mathematics anyway(anyone who has seen QM knows what Im on about…hilbert space over the complex plane my butt). i also have an equal love for math. i think the intellectual leaps made at the very frontier of mathematical discovery is nothing short of amazing. although i would love to have my name mentioned in the same breath as euler, gauss, taylor, laplace, poincare, lagrange,(insert french mathematician name here), i really doubt i could do strictly math for math’s sake. id like to know my work counts for something. hence, my fascination with theoretical physics. it is both intellectually rigorous and applicable. hopefully one day(this is a huge hopefully btw hehe) i can contribute to the eventual unification of physics theorem. </p>
<p>ps. sorry for the extremely long winded post. :p</p>
<p>@ CantabilenApathy: You’re probably right. Like I said, I’m staying realistic and not trying to get my hopes up. I was just wondering if anyone else had received any of the e-mails. April 30 is still the big day, and I can’t wait.</p>
<p>Btw just got into Santa Cruz…woo lol! I’m finally going to college.</p>
<p>I keep getting e-mails from UCB’s TSRP, and they are usually just filled with events and stuff that happening at Berkeley and when it’s happening.</p>
<p>@ CalBearGuy: I haven’t seen you on here in a while. lol good call abstaining, I can’t seem to stay away from CC. Anyway, that’s interesting that you’ve been receiving those e-mails. Good to know others are receiving some things too. I have no clue, in fact, I doubt that there is any causal relationship between our e-mails and acceptance, but we can always hope.</p>
<p>@janethedoe Wow man, that’s terrible - I so feel your pain, my family treats me the exact same way. That is pretty scary how much we have in common, though I wish it wasn’t so. I’d never wish this on anyone. Isn’t it weird that we chose to pursue truth instead of living in the lie that is Christianity? I still marvel at it myself from time to time – why didn’t I just pretend to be a christian when I first had the doubts, and avoid all this hardship? Why go out of our way to remove ourselves from the easiest path in life? haha.<br>
That’s awesome! Isn’t anthropology the perfect major for someone who wants to explore what the rest of the world has to offer? I really love this major. I’m taking an Anthropology of Magic, Witchcraft, and Religion class right now at my CC, and it is amazing.</p>
<p>@ lala I sure hope mine becomes like yours. For now, she’s living in denial. She keeps telling me that it was a fluke that I said that, because she believes that once you’re a christian you can never lose it. Basically, she doesn’t think its possible for me to stop being a christian lol…creepy…I really REALLY need to move out about now.</p>
<p>solidblu- you know how when people say they have a whole in their life and when they find religion or a god they say they are complete.
i had a whole in my heart that only evolution could complete. i could not live that easy path, i live at home and mommy would drag me to church and the things i had to endure were horrible. the ignorance and the small mindedness from the church.
the easiest thing was to stand up.
my mom believes like your mom that i am part of the flock, once a christian always a christian and she still prays for me and all that good stuff.
but
we are like friends, we can love each other and respect each other until we tick each other off. then its no holds bard. she calls me satan i call her ignorant, she calls me ignorant and i let it stop there.
three years ago we werent friends and we fought every day if i moved out then we would have been enemies. but shes learned to back off and ive learned to accept her for her beliefs. </p>
<p>as for Anthropology of Magic, Witchcraft, and Religion, that class is a blast!!! i had this cool professor at CC and he didnt use a traditional textbook, we studied from a little pocket book called Heathens, it was sooooooo awesome and eye opening.</p>
<p>@janethedoe I agree about becoming enemies post-move-out, I think that would’ve happened to me too, that’s why I’m glad I chose to stick it out until I transfer. At least they want me to get an education, so I’ll be leaving on good terms and within the normal flow of life. </p>
<p>Never read Heathens haha, sounds really interesting from the name though! I’ve also got an awesome teacher, she’s got the perfect gypsy look going haha</p>
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