<p>thank god i don't have to deal with that.</p>
<p>You live in Oakland, worry about not getting shot.</p>
<p>Yeah, I second the living close thing. I thought I would hate dorm living, but I tried it out for the past 6 weeks, and I gotta say being close to campus and being able to walk around the Telegraph area is nice, and not having to worry about finding parking all the time is even nicer. Try dorming, especially if you're a freshman. It's where you'll make the most friends and have the best experience, in the long run. If you are going to live further from campus, don't go as far as Albany! Try to find something that's somewhat nearby.</p>
<p>Ignore the homeless people, and be careful that nothing gets stolen out of your backpack while you're not looking! After awhile, it can be easy to tune out the bums, since there are so many of them, which can be a good and bad thing. Tune them out, but be alert!</p>
<p>1) Being approached by the same guy three separate times on the street. (He wanted to hit on girls..literally too many perverts. )</p>
<p>2) Saw a homeless man talk to a tree.</p>
<p>3) Saw another homeless man walk up to a girl and drink from her soda without her permission. Then he proceeded to eat her food that she was holding. </p>
<p>4) Being approached by a man who wanted to photograph me naked for "artistic" purposes.</p>
<p>To all the girls out there: Watch out for perverts.</p>
<p>I haven't been to Berkeley, but I learned some things when I visted Boston to check out Harvard and MIT. #1, never, ever respond to someone who comes up to you and says, "Don't be afraid, miss, I won't hurt you...this is an emergency." Right. If it was an emergency, he wouldn't be coming up to a lone teenage girl for help. The others have been covered here: don't make eye contact, people saying "I promise I'll buy food with it" generally won't, and don't talk back to the man standing on top of a trash can yelling about the doom of "the system."</p>
<p>Nothing really weird. During Calso, they warned us repeatedly not to go out alone at night. So I did. There were supposed to be night activities but I couldn't find them, everyone seemed to be buying food, so I bought a hot chocolate and wandered the streets, just hoping that someone would get in my face so I could splash hot chocolate into it. No one did. But I was in a completely desolate area and I had a feeling someone was behind me, and my hot chocolate was over. Luckily, the Unit 1 building was nearby, so I ducked into it.</p>
<p>hahahahahahahaha really mean man but sounds like that would be an effective way to thwart a would-be attacker</p>
<p>Yeah, that was really dumb. You should have listened to them when they said "Never go out alone!" Someone got shot and killed behind my building just a couple weeks ago. Literally steps from my Unit, on College and Dwight. Toto, we're not in Kansas anymore...</p>
<p>Unit 2 I presume?</p>
<p>Yes, Unit 2.</p>
<p>Geez, Blue, that's rough. I'm a Cal grad (1980). My 25th reunion is coming up over Homecoming weekend. As much as I love UC Berkeley, the crazies on Telegraph are getting seriously aggressive. I know how to handle myself in Berkeley, but the last time I was on Telegraph, a homeless guy really scared me. </p>
<p>I was with my 6'4", 20-y/o nephew. This guy came out of nowhere and started screaming something at my nephew about the t-shirt he was wearing, which was innocuous and did not have anything controversial on it that could have been misinterpreted, by a sane person, anyway. He just got right in my nephew's face, and started screaming something about, "I dare you, you f#!#ing-F%#!" in relation to absolutely nothing we had said or done. We were just walking down the street, not making eye contact with crazies. </p>
<p>The guy came up behind us, and as soon as my nephew turned around to see who was screaming, the guy started waving his arms, and screaming more obscenities. My nephew who visiting from another state was so surprised that he just stood there in disbelief, and I had to physically take his arm and pull him away from the situation. The guy followed us for a few feet, and then, backed off.</p>
<p>I was a student during the Naked Guy era. He had something against clothing, I think it was a Freedom of Expression deal, so y'know, he just didn't wear any. Then, all of the copy cats started doing it, so on-campus security booted them off-campus. Then, the city got involved because the nekkies migrated to where else?...Telegraph Ave.</p>