<p>Was it cost? location? prestige? something else? For me I applied only to schools in California. I want to be a good distance away from home, earn a respectable degree, but still have the college experience. What about you guys?</p>
<p>I knew that the University of California is the best public university research institution in the world.
I love California and all she has to offer, UC is the choice for me.</p>
<p>I want to study at UC Berkeley because it provides simply the best education that is accessible to me as a public school. It’s also just 40 miles north of my house, so it’s not a hassle moving. Still, it’s far enough that I would move out of the house. I know a lot of people here want to get far away, but I actually really enjoy having my family nearby.</p>
<p>Also-- I plan on working abroad. It’s important for me to study at a university with a name that resonates throughout the world. If I eventually want to work in Brazil, I won’t have a problem finding work-- ever.</p>
<p>Berkeley:</p>
<p>Cost - Can live at home and take BART to school, saving the thousands I would have to spend on housing; already experienced the “college lifestyle” and now I’m more focused on getting a great education. </p>
<p>Education - great school, great reputation, great education. </p>
<p>Prestige/Dream - I would have never imagined being able to attend UCB out of high school. This for me makes it undoubtedly my number one choice. Also, I’m not going to lie: I would love to have that “prestige” factor of attending/graduating from Cal.</p>
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<p>UCSD. i want to get the hell out of here and meet new people (sacramento). new beginning, great school, better location</p>
<p>I believe there’s only one reason to go to school: to become educated. You wanna make friends? Hit the clubs. You wanna get laid? Again, hit the clubs. But if you wanna learn, go to school. And the best option for all Californians is to go to the UC system, which is undoubtedly the best public university system in the world. But of course, cost is a factor. So go to the best school that you can afford to go.</p>
<p>For me just needs to be a decent school with a sweet location haha</p>
<p>UCSD. I live down the street, and have already done the bay area thing, so I guess location is important. More importantly, Scripps Institute of Oceanography is here and is a pretty good resource for my major.</p>
<p>EECS at UCB is 2nd in the country, tied with MIT, and I have an above average shot of attending at little or no financial cost.</p>
<p>Berkeley - the education, the academic prestige, the bay area. Graduate school is very important to me and I hope to become a college professor (hopefully at Berkeley.) So academic prestige is important.</p>
<p>ooo thats my goal mikei, what do you want to lecture/research?</p>
<p>hahaha NICE! The professor lifestyle is an amazing one.</p>
<p>I want to lecture on anything from pure math to development economics. I want to do research in undeveloped sustainability and culturally relativistic development economics. That would be ideal.</p>
<p>Also, if we become professors, we can do side projects. I want to integrate the products of my research into a nonprofit. But what exactly that means is yet to be determined. hahaha</p>
<p>What do you want to lecture/research?? And why do you want to be a professor?</p>
<p>I wish you two the best of luck in getting a tenured teaching position, at Cal or otherwise.</p>
<p>i want to become a professor because i am passionate about Anthropology. Honestly i want to get to the UC and take more classes to see what specifically i want to research. i also want to work on digs with the school if i choose to pursue archaeology and publish my own work of course.
i just know i belong in academia, i am creative and young and passionate enough to do it. i can bring something new and fresh to my field and they would be lucky to have me, and stupid not to give me tenure.</p>
<p>I really do wish you guys the best, only because I know there is a very real dearth of available positions at universities. Blame the Ph.D. system as it churns out too many people to stock the post-doc mills. That’s not to say you won’t achieve your goal. With enough ambition you can do anything.</p>
<p>I think this should be required reading for all budding scientists:
[Don’t</a> Become a Scientist!](<a href=“http://wuphys.wustl.edu/~katz/scientist.html]Don’t”>http://wuphys.wustl.edu/~katz/scientist.html)</p>
<p>It’s written by a Physicist, but sadly it’s relevant to most of the other sciences, hard and soft.</p>
<p>i am personal believer of, if i want it, i will get it.</p>
<p>i am not a statistic, i am a unique beautiful snowflake.</p>
<p>^^^hippy fo sho</p>
<p>lol how did u kno???</p>
<p>either that or i am tyler durdens inflated ego.</p>
<p>or maybe just a beautiful butterfly?</p>
<p>maybe ;)</p>