March 5, 2010 Berkeley
My Berkeley expectations were very high knowing that they are one of the best colleges in the state. The first thing that I noticed was that everybody was going to be in class and that no one was going to be out of class. The thing that surprised me the most was that it was the total opposite! There were people just hanging out and having a good time. I thought it was going to be like high school just that you live at school. I was thinking that everybody was going to have class all at the same time and had lunch at the same time. But it seemed like it wasn’t even a school just a hang out spot.
I found out that you could take a class the whole year or semester and never meet the teacher, and that they don’t even know your name. The thing that got me most fascinated was that students could teach other students and still get credit for it like it’s a regular class. I thought that was like the coolest thing ever. That all the teachers’ stay in one big building. Another thing that was interesting to me was that there were elements on the periodic table that was founded on the Berkeley campus. I love how there were under ground tunnels full of books it was just so unexpected.
I glad that we went there because it opened my eyes to the fact that it is possible. How you don’t have to be the smartest person or the most popular person at your high school to get into college because you basically start over. While I was there some of my expectation was fulfilled and some were made. Now that I saw everything there I would expect all the other colleges to be like that or even better. There were a lot of things that surprised me and bored me.
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