<p>what is really going on? im hearing so many bad accounts of stuff happening at cal from friends...maybe it was a good thing i didnt move in for welcome week</p>
<p>Yeah welcome week is a little boring. I havent seen so much crazy stuff (except at one frat party I went to) but it's just so dull. I just sit around. Today I'm even going to visit my aunt in Albany just to have something to do. Sigh.</p>
<p>Unlimited - I think you and I have that problem in common. We should meet up. I'm in Unit 3. Where are you at?</p>
<p>man can people come visit clark kerr....its so damn far and i dont feeling like going back and forth....i walk so much just to visit people in the units.....anyone in extension ? i am</p>
<p>I think I realized I don't know how to make new friends very well since I stuck to the same group during high school. I feel comfortable with the friends I have but end up having nothing to talk about with new people, so quiet now.</p>
<p>The night activities such as casino night and the costume party were okay. Other than that, I get pretty bored during the day. Such as right now, when I have nothing to do other than to sit in my dorm and go on the internet. </p>
<p>I try to go to as many social activities as possible, but my shyness prevents me from meeting too many people.</p>
<p>why don't you hang out with your roommate...see what he's doing. or if you don't get along with him so well, try and find someone who you've already met and do something with them.</p>
<p>if all else fails, go read a book or something.</p>
<p>Wow,</p>
<p>Are you guys really having trouble meeting new people?! There are so many opportunities out there. I live up at Bowles and while the dorm itself is not as ruckus and crazy as advertised, I guess we've been given opportunities to meet one another. I never go up the steps without saying "Hey, what's up?" to everyone. There are some quiet people out there, but you've got to drag that out of them. I'm a typically quiet guy, but you've got to realize that your roommate is going to be the person you're most likely going to be closest with. Proactive is a good word, and it's for your (you and your roommate) collective good. </p>
<p>I've had a GREAT time so far. It's so awesome to meet so many new people and forget all their names five minutes later. Just park a smiley face on your lips and you're good to go. There have been TONS of goings ons, but you've got to look for it and meeting a lot of people will definitely help. Half the stuff I go to are not on that "official" list of activities provided to us and have been passed on by another kid. </p>
<p>PLEASE don't just go to the academic orientation or advising or any of that stuff or else you are just as much to blame. Go where there's people, and where the cloud of academics is not floating overhead. Don't just talk about school, don't just complain about classes or financial aid, but really get to know people. It's college, now, folks!</p>
<p>At any rate, if any of you want to hang out or see Bowles I'd love to take you. BUT, you've got to fill out that stupid questionnaire in the "Berkeley 2009" forum and the "Incoming Students" thread. I started that blasted thing and since no one has taken, I've looked stUpiD for doing so. So post in that thread and we'll talk! Haha.. Alright, see ya guys around. I hope things turn around for the most of you.. =)</p>
<p>TTG</p>
<p>"why don't you hang out with your roommate...see what he's doing. or if you don't get along with him so well, try and find someone who you've already met and do something with them.</p>
<p>if all else fails, go read a book or something."</p>
<p>Heh, I did try. He is always giving me the "yeah I'm meeting with a [high school] friend" whenever I attempt to ask him to go somewhere with me.</p>
<p>Anyhow I went to a frat party tonight, kinda lame because I didn't dance much=</p>
<p>hmm i'm a second year and i'm living in the dorms again though i haven't met my roomie yet nor have i moved in yet...oh well</p>
<p>...wait are you a transfer student? A lot of people know peeps from hs......and tend to stick around them.</p>
<p>hmm any hot guys want to meet up eh <em>wink wink</em></p>
<p>Haha. Hm.</p>
<p>I feel you on everything you said unlimited, seems like I'm going through the same thing. And I can only say, "Hi, hows it going?" so many damn times to people i'll probably never talk to again.</p>
<p>yeah, it's been fun. but what im worried about is what happens when the merriment of Welcome Week dies down...</p>
<p>i already saw a bit of the underside of Cal rearing it's ugly head (Billing and Payment Services and campus/AC transit)</p>
<p>Okay it was awkward the past day because I was going to the DC alone to eat, saw my roommate and asked if I can join them. Being a good RM, he said yes. But it felt really awkward because the table was for 6 and I was the 7th (When I asked my RM his friends from hs did not arrive yet), and their friends didn't talk to me/I tried talking to them. </p>
<p>I'm lacking some social skills..</p>
<p>Another point is that many people from my high school didn't choose UCB because they thought it was a nerdy school/super hard with no social scene. My floormates and I were surprised when the line to get into the casino/dance on Monday stretched passed Sather gate.</p>
<p>*Also, there was a tray stack on the table and I finished my first meal and placed my tray on top of it, then the girl across from me says "oh, you don't need to bus it" when in reality I was just putting my tray there so I can get a second serving. After finishing the second serving the same girl across says "you are getting more?" That shows a lot.</p>
<p>Haha, maybe you're handsome , so got noticed by that girl. She was just playing in the second line.
It's very nice of you to bus the dish. Some seconds of everyone would save the servers hours. (maybe I'm exaggerating here, but still, it does help a lot)</p>
<p>You didn't understand what I said.</p>
<p>Oh well, my English sux.
Sorry.</p>
<p>I wont move in until like January.</p>
<p>I probably should have signed up for the Fall Extension thing.</p>
<p>Community College is a boring and undignified process--but its easy and super laidback.</p>