my beefs with college

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of California - Berkeley
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<p>lol, beef. ok, don't get my wrong, uc berkeley is the college for me, i'm really glad i was admitted.</p>

<p>but i have some "complaints" lol.</p>

<p>I think food should be better at the DCs. For the amount each student is paying, I mean they need to kick it up a notch, don't you agree? Even the salad tastes disgusting. The only food I find enjoyable is Clark Kerr, but I don't want to walk there every night lol.</p>

<p>Also, it sucks how we have to go look for food and go walk to places. Wastes time from studying lol, if you had a test the next day. (A possible remedy: room service. For the price we are paying, room service would make college awesome. Lol, I know it isn't possible though haha.)</p>

<p>I dislike when I'm trying to get out of a lecture hall, and the next class starts pouring in, taking me 5-10 minutes to get out, when it would usually take 2. Why can't they just wait?</p>

<p>Oh yeah, it sucks how far RSF is from unit1/2 dorms lol. And it especially sucks if you want to go late at night to work out.</p>

<p>Idk, I had some more beefs, lol, but can't remember them at the moment.</p>

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<p>there are threads upon threads and posts upon posts dedicated to this subject</p>

<p>but i agree with most of what you’re saying (even though most of it is about food/getting fat and working out :D)</p>

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<p>i get that DC food can be yuck sometimes but room service? really? grow up and use ur leg muscles.</p>

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<p>^I know, I was joking…calm down lol.</p>

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<p>you could jog or run to the RSF and call it warm up exercises. idk.
and yeah DC food blows, that’s why i don’t get meal points. meh.</p>

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<p>Don’t complain about how far Clark Kerr or RSF is. Try living several blocks off-campus on Southside and having classes at Pimentel or LeConte every day.</p>

<p>But yeah DC sucks that’s why you live in an apartment and cook your own food :D</p>

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<p>you should get a bike, makes day-to-day life in berkeley a lot more enjoyable lol</p>

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<p>Where do you live? I’m assuming Unit 1/2. This is Berkeley; there’s literally food places everywhere and it probably takes less than 10 minutes to get to somewhere by foot. You can usually get pretty good cheap food if you know where to look. (Yelp is your best friend.) Some personal favorites are La Burrita (it’s open really late on Southside), House of Curries, or better yet, use your meal points at Peet’s Coffee and get the sandwiches or something; those are usually okay if you REALLY hate DC food. It’s probably better that you eat than try to study on an empty stomach…and of course you have to walk to places to get food! How else do you expect to eat lol?! If you have an exam the next day, then prepare ahead i.e. continuously study your lecture notes instead of studying the night before, don’t eat anything too starchy otherwise you’ll go into a food coma (and then seriously regret it haha)</p>

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<p>Some students are really good at waiting; others are…well, not. We’re all busy people and unfortunately it’s a dog-eat-dog world here, so if you can, learn to be efficient when you pack your things right before lecture ends, or find other exits out of the classroom. </p>

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<p>Really? It takes about 15 minutes (from let’s say the ATO area) walking to get to the RSF. It’s not too far from Unit 1/2, relatively speaking. It just seems far. Also, if you’re lifting weights or doing cardio, you’ll probably be at the RSF for only 40-60 min., so the entire trip and workout will take 1.5 hours +/- 30min. 2 hours/day at the RSF (let’s say 2x/week) isn’t a bad investment…</p>

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<p>so if the DC had better beef (ie food), would your beef be gone?</p>

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<p>Well you know, our early Hominid ancestors probably ran miles everyday just to hunt their food.</p>

<p>Just saying. Good thing we all don’t have to hunt for our own food in Berkeley. That would be… quite a spectacle.</p>

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<p>Have you even tried other university dorm food? Can you even cook as half as good as them? Please s.t.f.u. when you don’t even know what you’re talking about.</p>

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<p>By beefs, I thought you meant like bffs. I was thoroughly disappointed.</p>

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<p>I’d say the the two posts above Batman17 have really bad arguments. I agree with everyone else though.</p>

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<p>Just to let you know, you typed that in a minute. That’s wild</p>

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<p>wild. some would even say. wild… wild… west. as in the state of berkeley DCs when gunning down a rival for that last piece of pumpkin pie. </p>

<p>little did they know you hoarded 6 pieces back at your table already-- you’re just coming back for lucky number slevin.</p>

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<p>Try living in Foothill. To get to the RSF it is more than 20 minutes. Foothill dinner is alright, but the only times I really go to DCs are for latenight crossroads.</p>

<p>I agree about the lecture hall thing. Either have it so the people entering go in through the lower entrances and the ones leaving go out the upper entrances, or just wait until 95% of the lecture hall is clear before going in.</p>

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<p>As a first year, I ran out of meal points mid-November because I blew all my meal points on late-night at the DCs. To this day, I still don’t understand how students have so many leftover meal points at the end of the semester LOL.</p>

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<p>@Ramblinman </p>

<p>Why latenight at crossroads? Foothill latenight is awwwesome</p>

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<p>OP’s ■■■■■■■■. No offense to mentally challenged people.</p>

<p>You’re paying like 7 bucks a meal. That’s VERY inexpensive for an organic buffet. And you expect room service . . . .</p>

<p>You want to go to the gym to work out but you don’t want to walk there . . . ok . . .</p>

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<p>Foothill late night is ok, but there are so many more people at crossroads. I rather hang with my friends at crossroads late night than eat foothill late night in my room or with 1 or 2 friends.</p>

<p>Also foothill doesn’t have as big of a menu and it takes longer to cook. If the food was substantially better here, then maybe I’d go to our latenight more often.</p>