I was very excited to attend UC
Berkeley for the Fall 2012, since it was the school I dreamed on attending. My
experience began with move in day, an exciting and difficult day because I had
never left my house before; it was the first time I was separating myself from
my loved ones. My floor was a way I was able to get a close family away from
home, I am good friends with the people on my floor and able to talk to them whenever
I need someone to talk to. I have meet great people in the dorms.
My first week at Cal was not what I
expected; the class size was the biggest difference from high school. My Public
Health course was about 600 people, a tenfold from my graduating class. I felt
a bit alone at first, but then began talking to others in the class that were
in the same shoes they needed to get to know more people to talk to and feel a
bit more welcomed. The courses at Cal
are very challenging and require a lot of reading. All my courses required
intense reading that was very hard to understand, and I was only given a day or
two to finish reading the text. My
classes also gave other homework such as big essay that were due within a
matter of days, this was the hardest thing to adjust to. I was used to having a
whole week to compose a good essay, but here at Cal a great coherent essay was
to be finished in two or three days. After a couple of weeks of adjusting to
the daily routine of homework, I have gotten used to the workload required from
the classes and I am now on a daily routine to finish this semester strong and
complete my first year at Cal.
My experience as a college student has
been as I had expected; a great place to meet and interact with people, but
also a great deal of work. I have been able to meet interesting people from all
over the United States. I have also great people at various clubs, such as
Hermanos Unidos and Rally Committee. College has impacted my life and
has made me seek for further knowledge. I plan to continue on my education by
continuing on to Graduate School. College is a great experience that everyone
should be able to have, it makes one think in a different manner, you learn to
understand each other and see the world with other set of eyes. College is
challenging but rewarding.
-Gustavo, UC Berkeley
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