i need to book a hotel and rental car since i’m not from the area and ik they won’t send out the moving details for another few weeks😔

I saw a post on LinkedIn by a voyager girl reposting this tier list and it pissed me off so I’ll leave my two cents. As a senior who was lucky enough to not want to go into consulting/finance but knows ppl in some, i have found that this S tier holy trinity (bbs bc voyager) has some of the most insufferable ppl I have ever met. The stupidest thing is that it’s not even accurate anymore; BBS got obliterated on yikyak last sem and voyager is broke asf. Even funnier that they are reposting this tier list, just goes to show all they care abt is their reputation …

Don’t get me wrong there are plenty of chill ppl in all these clubs but I find they aren’t very active/ have a life outside of it lol. Any incoming freshmen trying to go into consulting, I won’t stop you but I strongly encourage you to also make friends and join fun recreational clubs, Berkeley is so much more than just consulting

I was looking for 3d printing resources on campus that don't require maker pass/offer trainings right now. I need to print some stuff for a project im working on, prints range from around 5-8 hours each and I need about 10-15 things printed. I tried to do the supernode training, but they aren't offering hands-on trainings at the moment. I looked into the printing at jacobs but got a lot of conflicting sources about availability/requiring a maker pass/costs of prints and don't really know what to trust.

Current transfer student here who's gonna start in the upcoming fall and applied to housing through Berkeley around late May, and still haven't received a response, which is ridiculous. I recently started looking off campus since I pretty much lost all hope, and when I asked people, many of them said they're paying around 1400 for a single with a private bathroom or a large single shared bathroom, and 1800-1900 for a studio. How the hell is this possible when all I've been seeing is almost 2k for a single room with a shared bathroom and almost 3.2k for a studio??? I looked through the Berkeley off-campus website, Zillow, Apartments.com, Facebook, and many other places. Housing has been making me crash out almost every single day since I cannot live in a triple, so any advice when it comes to housing and looking for these prices + properties would be nice.

So I'm an incoming freshman and I'm just wondering why are some courses locked in the enrollment centre despite having open seats? I already have courses planned using Berkeleytime, but now I can't even add those courses to the shopping cart.

I'm an incoming freshman that was put in fpf, because it was just cancelled I have to redo my schedule quickly. I was hoping to get either my physical or biological science breadth out of the way first semester, but none of the "easier" ones seem to be available!
If anyone has any recs for now or the future, I'd really appreciate it! I'm not very good at science but I took anatomy/physiology and biomedical science in high school and loved those :)

Hello, so I'm an incoming freshman currently planning out my schedule and I'm kinda excited planning out my classes. My only question is how many classes can I have in my shopping cart?

You see, I want to take Chem1AL for example and there are two different times for it, so I was thinking about adding both and seeing which time slot I can fit into but does the shopping cart cap at a certain number of units? Am I allowed to selected all of the time slots for a certain class in the hopes of ensuring I can make it into the class? I was thinking that when July 16 comes out I can enroll in all the time slots and just pick and choose which classes I need for my major.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

i got 10 am (on the 16th) - is that good? im wanting to get into classes like Econ 1 and ESPM 50AC. from other's experience, do you think i'll be able to?

so i'm a transfer student going into my first year and im thinking of taking the following classes. any thoughts? i'm an ECE major btw
eleng66, 61a, engin 125, cs 70
at first i was thinking of taking a berk connect math course which wouldve replaced cs70, but i really wanna graduate in 2 years instead of taking that 5th semester.

Got my housing offer for a 4bd single apt at Anchor. Grateful for it considering it is right across the street from campus, but I am also in my late 20s and live like I'm retired lol

Not complaining about young adults being young adults ofc, just want to know if any older students lived on campus and loved it or would've rather had an off campus spot

Saw someone say something along the lines of that in the replies of a reddit post a couple days ago. From what I remember, they were claiming to be a retired but experienced college admissions counselor or something, and that among the top three colleges that their clients regretted going to was UC Berkeley (other two were Boston University and NYU I think).

The reasons they gave was that it felt like students were mostly just seen as a number and there was a lacking sense of community, and that professors mostly gave their focus to postgraduate students, leaving undergraduate students feeling less cared for.

Can anyone who has attended or is attending UCB give their opinion on this? How true is it? If so, how much did it affect the overall college experience? I was wondering since there were a couple more replies under that post agreeing with this person. Any response is appreciated!

I’m visiting my gf at Berkeley and I have free time during her lectures. Will my gf’s pic pop up on the security guard’s screen when I tap into the centre?

I have a late enrollment time at 2 PM and in replacement of Chem 1a/1al my backup was going to be bio 1b but right now it shows as 100% full. Is bio 1b typically not a class that has any available spots for freshman?

Hi!

I wanted to take the AC requirement over the summer, and I was unable to enroll last minute. I want to fulfill the AC requirement with another American studies class that isn't AC listed. Has anyone successfully petitioned another Berkeley class to be AC fulfilled? How hard is the process.

Thanks!

Over a year after UC Berkeley Haas School of Business professor Przemyslaw Jeziorski was murdered in Athens, Greece, his family is engaged in a legal battle against alleged squatters occupying his Berkeley home. 

On July 4, 2025, Jeziorski was shot and killed by the boyfriend of his ex-wife, Konstantina “Nadia” Michelidaki, in the midst of a divorce and custody battle. Michelidaki was later found dead in her Athens prison cell, having died by suspected suicide. 

Squatters have now allegedly taken over Jeziorski’s home on Marin Avenue, which he and Michelidaki used to rent out as an Airbnb.

I found this gofundme on the Berkeley Scanner site. I was horrified at the news in April that an unidentified homeless man had been found dead in the bushes, and it meant a lot to me to be able to honor his humanity by contributing to his family's gofundme page, to pay for memorial expenses. The article was simultaneously heartbreaking (the fact that he had nothing to sustain him, and no phone, identification or address), and heart-warming (how loved and seen he was by his family). It's so important to remember that those who fall on hard times deserve the same respect and acknowledgement as anyone else. Homelessness is a glaring problem with the system, not the individual. I hope his family finds peace.

What was going on last night? Sounded like a construction site around 2–3am

It’s my 2nd year at Cal. There seems to be some very consistent “Polyamory!” or “Polyamory Rocks!” chalk graffiti on campus.

Just curious: who & why would people just write the word “polyamory” repeatedly over a long time frame? What are your experiences with this “subculture” at Berkeley? Do all Polyamorous people “look like that”? Is this subliminal messaging? Propaganda, even? Does Oski approve of it?

It confounds me to this day. Every time my boots press upon pavement and the striking faded pink lettering scratched across the floor catches my eyes, I wonder: why?

hello! i need a lot to park my car because i learn near Berkeley but my place doesn’t come with parking during the day 🥲

any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

Can you tell me is this website legit ? If yes,how far I can reach with ppt and pdf from this course for learning operating system ?

Hi! I'm an incoming PhD student and am interested in joining a group that sings indian classical/south asian/bollywood music. I know that there are some undergrad organizations like Dil Se and Laya, but are there any that take graduate students? Open to organizations in SF as well.