P.S: please let me know if you have anything that you want me to talk about or any questions that I may answer. : )
The University Library... i've never actually seen books in there before though hahaha
Monday, January 24, 2011
On Pictures Part I
I think I'm running out of pre-med topics to talk about, so please enjoy these pictures of Berkeley that I took during my semester at cal : )
P.S: please let me know if you have anything that you want me to talk about or any questions that I may answer. : )
^ The view from our room. : )
The Campanile at night.
.... I'm not sure....
The VLSB, one of the best looking buildings on campus (in my opinion)
P.S: please let me know if you have anything that you want me to talk about or any questions that I may answer. : )
Saturday, January 22, 2011
On Human Truths
I stumbled upon this list while surfing the web, and although it has nothing to do with being pre med or berkeley, I thought you might enjoy it : )
So without further ado, I present to you The Truths For Mature Humans
1. I think part of a best friend's job should be to immediately clear your computer history if you die.
2. Nothing sucks more than that moment during an argument when you realize you're wrong.
3. I totally take back all those times I didn't want to nap when I was younger.
4. There is great need for a sarcasm font.
5. How the hell are you supposed to fold a fitted sheet?
6. Was learning cursive really necessary?
7. Map Quest really needs to start their directions on # 5. I'm pretty sure I know how to get out of my neighborhood.
8. Obituaries would be a lot more interesting if they told you how the person died.
9. I can't remember the last time I wasn't at least kind of tired.
10. Bad decisions make good stories.
11. You never know when it will strike, but there comes a moment at work when you know that you just aren't going to do anything productive for the rest of the day.
12. Can we all just agree to ignore whatever comes after Blue Ray? I don't want to have to restart my collection...again.
13. I'm always slightly terrified when I exit out of Word and it asks me if I want to save any changes to my ten-page technical report that I swear I did not make any changes to.
14. "Do not machine wash or tumble dry" means I will never wash this - ever.
15. I hate when I just miss a call by the last ring (Hello? Hello? **** it!), but when I immediately call back, it rings nine times and goes to voice mail. What did you do after I didn't answer? Drop the phone and run away?
16. I hate leaving my house confident and looking good and then not seeing anyone of importance the entire day. What a waste.
17. I keep some people's phone numbers in my phone just so I know not to answer when they call.
18. I think the freezer deserves a light as well.
19. I disagree with Kay Jewelers. I would bet on any given Friday or Saturday night more kisses begin with Miller Lite than Kay.
20. I wish Google Maps had an "Avoid Ghetto" routing option.
21. Sometimes, I'll watch a movie that I watched when I was younger and suddenly realize I had no idea what the heck was going on when I first saw it.
22. I would rather try to carry 10 over-loaded plastic bags in each hand than take 2 trips to bring my groceries in.
23. The only time I look forward to a red light is when I'm trying to finish a text.
24. I have a hard time deciphering the fine line between boredom and hunger.
25. How many times is it appropriate to say "What?" before you just nod and smile because you still didn't hear or understand a word they said?
26. I love the sense of camaraderie when an entire line of cars team up to prevent a jerk from cutting in at the front. Stay strong, brothers and sisters!
27. Shirts get dirty. Underwear gets dirty. Pants? Pants never get dirty, and you can wear them forever.
28. Is it just me or do high school kids get dumber & dumber every year?
29. There's no worse feeling than that millisecond you're sure you are going to die after leaning your chair back a little too far.
30. As a driver I hate pedestrians, and as a pedestrian I hate drivers, but no matter what the mode of transportation, I always hate bicyclists.
31. Sometimes I'll look down at my watch 3 consecutive times and still not know what time it is.
32. Even under ideal conditions people have trouble locating their car keys in a pocket, finding their cell phone, and Pinning the Tail on the Donkey - but I'd bet my *** everyone can find and push the snooze button from 3 feet away, in about 1.7 seconds, eyes closed, first time, every time!
So without further ado, I present to you The Truths For Mature Humans
Truths For Mature Humans
1. I think part of a best friend's job should be to immediately clear your computer history if you die.
2. Nothing sucks more than that moment during an argument when you realize you're wrong.
3. I totally take back all those times I didn't want to nap when I was younger.
4. There is great need for a sarcasm font.
5. How the hell are you supposed to fold a fitted sheet?
6. Was learning cursive really necessary?
7. Map Quest really needs to start their directions on # 5. I'm pretty sure I know how to get out of my neighborhood.
8. Obituaries would be a lot more interesting if they told you how the person died.
9. I can't remember the last time I wasn't at least kind of tired.
10. Bad decisions make good stories.
11. You never know when it will strike, but there comes a moment at work when you know that you just aren't going to do anything productive for the rest of the day.
12. Can we all just agree to ignore whatever comes after Blue Ray? I don't want to have to restart my collection...again.
13. I'm always slightly terrified when I exit out of Word and it asks me if I want to save any changes to my ten-page technical report that I swear I did not make any changes to.
14. "Do not machine wash or tumble dry" means I will never wash this - ever.
15. I hate when I just miss a call by the last ring (Hello? Hello? **** it!), but when I immediately call back, it rings nine times and goes to voice mail. What did you do after I didn't answer? Drop the phone and run away?
16. I hate leaving my house confident and looking good and then not seeing anyone of importance the entire day. What a waste.
17. I keep some people's phone numbers in my phone just so I know not to answer when they call.
18. I think the freezer deserves a light as well.
19. I disagree with Kay Jewelers. I would bet on any given Friday or Saturday night more kisses begin with Miller Lite than Kay.
20. I wish Google Maps had an "Avoid Ghetto" routing option.
21. Sometimes, I'll watch a movie that I watched when I was younger and suddenly realize I had no idea what the heck was going on when I first saw it.
22. I would rather try to carry 10 over-loaded plastic bags in each hand than take 2 trips to bring my groceries in.
23. The only time I look forward to a red light is when I'm trying to finish a text.
24. I have a hard time deciphering the fine line between boredom and hunger.
25. How many times is it appropriate to say "What?" before you just nod and smile because you still didn't hear or understand a word they said?
26. I love the sense of camaraderie when an entire line of cars team up to prevent a jerk from cutting in at the front. Stay strong, brothers and sisters!
27. Shirts get dirty. Underwear gets dirty. Pants? Pants never get dirty, and you can wear them forever.
28. Is it just me or do high school kids get dumber & dumber every year?
29. There's no worse feeling than that millisecond you're sure you are going to die after leaning your chair back a little too far.
30. As a driver I hate pedestrians, and as a pedestrian I hate drivers, but no matter what the mode of transportation, I always hate bicyclists.
31. Sometimes I'll look down at my watch 3 consecutive times and still not know what time it is.
32. Even under ideal conditions people have trouble locating their car keys in a pocket, finding their cell phone, and Pinning the Tail on the Donkey - but I'd bet my *** everyone can find and push the snooze button from 3 feet away, in about 1.7 seconds, eyes closed, first time, every time!
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
On Winter Break and Spring Semester
This winter break, my parents let me go to Korea for a bit over three weeks. I know this has nothing to do with being a premed at Berkeley, but i'll try to tie some things in as I go along.
Not realizing that korea is about -17 C in the winter, all I brought were t-shirts and some hoodies.
I could barely breathe outside because every breath I took felt like knives were stabbing my lungs out. It was that cold! When relatives would ask where I went to college and I told them I went to Berkeley, they were like "Music Major?" and I responded with a puzzled look because EVERYONE I talked to asked if I was a music major. Turns out, there's a Berkeley College somewhere on the East Coast where a lot of korean celebrities attended. Kinda hurt my ego... hahaha
So yesterday, I came back to berkeley after a month-long break and although I was glad to see my roommates, I was sad to have to leave Korea and my family at home in the central valley. I was even more upset at my ochem lab schedule. Dilemma: during telebears, I signed up for organic chemistry at my appointed time. However, there was only one spot left for lab so I took it, naturally, thinking that i'll just change my time later on. Then, a few days before school started, I got an email stating that I couldn't change my lab section. The problem was that my lab section conflicted with two of my other classes. So for the past few weeks, I've been desperately trying to find other classes that would work with my set-in-stone lab section. The other problem is that all the classes are full! So I'm waitlisted for more than half of my classes and at this point, I don't really know what to do. I'm really hoping that people start dropping because if they don't... i'm so screwed...
One piece of advice: Telebears (for future cal students) absolutely sucks. Make sure you check courserank and ratemyprofessor for each class. It'll save you a lot of heartache and pain. : )
-K
Not realizing that korea is about -17 C in the winter, all I brought were t-shirts and some hoodies.
I could barely breathe outside because every breath I took felt like knives were stabbing my lungs out. It was that cold! When relatives would ask where I went to college and I told them I went to Berkeley, they were like "Music Major?" and I responded with a puzzled look because EVERYONE I talked to asked if I was a music major. Turns out, there's a Berkeley College somewhere on the East Coast where a lot of korean celebrities attended. Kinda hurt my ego... hahaha
So yesterday, I came back to berkeley after a month-long break and although I was glad to see my roommates, I was sad to have to leave Korea and my family at home in the central valley. I was even more upset at my ochem lab schedule. Dilemma: during telebears, I signed up for organic chemistry at my appointed time. However, there was only one spot left for lab so I took it, naturally, thinking that i'll just change my time later on. Then, a few days before school started, I got an email stating that I couldn't change my lab section. The problem was that my lab section conflicted with two of my other classes. So for the past few weeks, I've been desperately trying to find other classes that would work with my set-in-stone lab section. The other problem is that all the classes are full! So I'm waitlisted for more than half of my classes and at this point, I don't really know what to do. I'm really hoping that people start dropping because if they don't... i'm so screwed...
One piece of advice: Telebears (for future cal students) absolutely sucks. Make sure you check courserank and ratemyprofessor for each class. It'll save you a lot of heartache and pain. : )
-K
Sunday, January 2, 2011
On Dorms
I got a comment from a reader asking if I could do a post on dorms. So here it is! : )
The dorms at berkeley include the following: Unit 1, Unit 2, Unit 3, Bowles, Foothill, Stern, and Clark Kerr. Out of the units, unit 3 is the oldest (after the others got reconstructed) but it is also the closest one to campus. The food sucks although a rare few seem to enjoy it. The food usually consists of pizza, pasta, noodles, fruits, salad, desserts, etc. Nothing special. Unit 1 and Unit 2 are close to Crossroads - another dining center. In my opinion, Crossroads has the best food out of the dining commons. A friend of mine has a suite in Unit 2 and it's really nice. Nothing like our hole of a place in Unit 3. I live in a triple, but luckily, my roommates and I keep to our spaces pretty well so there's never an issue of space. My room consists of one bottom-top bunk bed, and another top bunk bed with two connected desks below it and one desk by the wall. We have three closets (some triples only have two closets, so the girls have to split them or one has to use the drawers), 4 drawers by said closets, and 4 smaller drawers below the bottom bunk bed. We have a mini fridge and a microwave on top of it. There's not much room for anything else hahaha. The view from our room is killer. Since we live on the 7th floor, we get a view of San Francisco and the bay, and the view during a sunset is breathtaking. The bathrooms/showers are all coed- about 6-7 showers and 4-5 bathroom stalls. Right when I walk out of my dorm, there's Cafe 3 - the dining commons for Unit 3, and beside it is Bear Market -a small market where you can buy cereal, drinks, condoms if you will. hahaha. Cross two streets and you arrive on campus.
Bowles is the all-male, castle-looking dorm. I've never been inside but it looks really cool from the outside. Supposedly, the rooms are all quads- two rooms with bunkbeds and a central room with desks for studying.
Foothill, like its name implies, is on top of a hill, with Stern. It's right by the Greek Theatre so residents of Foothill and Stern get to listen in on free concerts every once in a while- might be distracting when you're trying to study though. It's surrounded by trees and wood so there's a cabin-esque feeling about it. Foothill and Stern are closest to the engineering and math buildings so a lot of engineering majors choose to live there.
Stern is the all-girls dorm located on the hill by foothill. A friend of mine told me that 'it's nice and quiet most of the time, which makes it a good place for studying, and the people are friendly (thought most of them are focused on studying so you probably won't have the same social atmosphere like at the units or even at foothill.'
Clark Kerr is farthest from campus, with missionary style buildings.
Other than what the buildings actually look like and where they're located, the rooms/food are all pretty similar. Also, what you put down on that list when choosing dorms matters only slightly since the rooms are given through a lottery system. The higher your number, the more likely you will get your choice dorm. It sucks, I know... So I was really glad I was put in Unit 3, mainly because it was closest to campus and is known as the most 'social' dorm.
So, if you want the social dorms, pick one of the Units. If you want an all guys dorm, pick Bowles. If you want to be close to engineering/science/math buildings, pick Foothill or Stern. If you want an all girls dorm, pick Stern. And if you like the missionary style feel, pick Clark Kerr.
I hope this helps somewhat when picking your dorms :) Goodluck!
-K
The dorms at berkeley include the following: Unit 1, Unit 2, Unit 3, Bowles, Foothill, Stern, and Clark Kerr. Out of the units, unit 3 is the oldest (after the others got reconstructed) but it is also the closest one to campus. The food sucks although a rare few seem to enjoy it. The food usually consists of pizza, pasta, noodles, fruits, salad, desserts, etc. Nothing special. Unit 1 and Unit 2 are close to Crossroads - another dining center. In my opinion, Crossroads has the best food out of the dining commons. A friend of mine has a suite in Unit 2 and it's really nice. Nothing like our hole of a place in Unit 3. I live in a triple, but luckily, my roommates and I keep to our spaces pretty well so there's never an issue of space. My room consists of one bottom-top bunk bed, and another top bunk bed with two connected desks below it and one desk by the wall. We have three closets (some triples only have two closets, so the girls have to split them or one has to use the drawers), 4 drawers by said closets, and 4 smaller drawers below the bottom bunk bed. We have a mini fridge and a microwave on top of it. There's not much room for anything else hahaha. The view from our room is killer. Since we live on the 7th floor, we get a view of San Francisco and the bay, and the view during a sunset is breathtaking. The bathrooms/showers are all coed- about 6-7 showers and 4-5 bathroom stalls. Right when I walk out of my dorm, there's Cafe 3 - the dining commons for Unit 3, and beside it is Bear Market -a small market where you can buy cereal, drinks, condoms if you will. hahaha. Cross two streets and you arrive on campus.
Bowles is the all-male, castle-looking dorm. I've never been inside but it looks really cool from the outside. Supposedly, the rooms are all quads- two rooms with bunkbeds and a central room with desks for studying.
Foothill, like its name implies, is on top of a hill, with Stern. It's right by the Greek Theatre so residents of Foothill and Stern get to listen in on free concerts every once in a while- might be distracting when you're trying to study though. It's surrounded by trees and wood so there's a cabin-esque feeling about it. Foothill and Stern are closest to the engineering and math buildings so a lot of engineering majors choose to live there.
Stern is the all-girls dorm located on the hill by foothill. A friend of mine told me that 'it's nice and quiet most of the time, which makes it a good place for studying, and the people are friendly (thought most of them are focused on studying so you probably won't have the same social atmosphere like at the units or even at foothill.'
Clark Kerr is farthest from campus, with missionary style buildings.
Other than what the buildings actually look like and where they're located, the rooms/food are all pretty similar. Also, what you put down on that list when choosing dorms matters only slightly since the rooms are given through a lottery system. The higher your number, the more likely you will get your choice dorm. It sucks, I know... So I was really glad I was put in Unit 3, mainly because it was closest to campus and is known as the most 'social' dorm.
So, if you want the social dorms, pick one of the Units. If you want an all guys dorm, pick Bowles. If you want to be close to engineering/science/math buildings, pick Foothill or Stern. If you want an all girls dorm, pick Stern. And if you like the missionary style feel, pick Clark Kerr.
I hope this helps somewhat when picking your dorms :) Goodluck!
-K
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