I spent my first two years at Berkeley and then transferred to UC Santa Cruz for a more personal…read moreexperience. At that time, Santa Cruz was the most selective campus in the UC system. Although I liked Santa Cruz better, I still value my UC Berkeley experience. There was no handholding at Berkeley. It was sink or swim for undergraduates. Classes were graded on the curve and very few As and Bs were given. Most professors seemed to resent having to teach undergraduates, and much of the teaching was conducted by graduate student teaching assistants who themselves had little interest in teaching or ability to teach. The undergraduate students who did best were the transfers from community colleges where professors who cared about teaching prepared their students for upper division classes at Berkeley. Another noteworthy thing about Berkeley - and probably most prestigious universities at that time - was the eccentricity of the professors. Many were unpleasant and not well rounded or interesting in their own right. They were specialists in their fields but not broadly educated. Then there was the bureaucracy that one had to deal with. Probably the most valuable skill I learned was dealing with difficult people and cutting through red tape. The second most valuable skill was living in a community where there was no protective barrier separating the students from the less reputable sorts of people. All that being said, there was a vitality and intellectual flavor to Berkeley that I found lacking when I visited Harvard and Stanford. Berkeley had more of the feel and look of a university in Europe in which student life is not separated from ordinary life. I finally found the key to unlocking Berkeley's excellence when I picked up a student guide to professors and classes. Instead of selecting subjects and classes, I selected highly rated professors. As a result, one of the last classes I took was a class on Dostoevsky taught by a Polish Nobel Prize winner.

Always fun to visit the campus with family after coming here for college. Every visit feels…read moredifferent and something is renovated at each visit. Love this school, had some great memories made here!

Berkeley City College Campus is so gorgeous. I have seen students, staff, and teachers in friendly…read morecommunication. I felt comfortable in the college. I took ASL classes and digital photography classes for my major. Good coffee shops and restaurants are close to the Berkeley City College campus. I took the Bart from San Leandro to Berkeley College, and it's easy and fun. Thank you!

Get a better gate keeper. Everything Seems so irrelevant to him. Get someone wants to actually help…read morepeople.

The Wright Institute in Berkeley is a great place to receive affordable mental health services…read more It is a private graduate school of psychology specializing in educating clinicians and giving them real world experience before they become professional therapists. These students have done all the course work and need hours in the field of psychology before they get their licenses. I have a therapist I see once a week for part of their semester and it resolves in July. These students are educated and can help you through phase of life challenges. This is my second time receiving counseling and previously I received therapy 10 years ago. They charge on a sliding scale and offer some stability during challenging times. They also offer group therapy sessions and you may drop in whenever your schedule permits and the cost is $15 per session. Although I have not partaken in the group therapy sessions, I have heard many good things about them and considering joining a few. What I like a lot about the Wright Institue is I feel as though the students really try hard and seem to care very much with what you're going through and are very helpful to help you process what your priorities are and what you hope to gain from the therapy sessions. Finding a therapist in the real world is as challenging as finding your partner in life so it can take a while. That's why I feel that the Wright Institute is a great way to get started in therapy. They're located near UC Berkeley campus and the parking can be challenging. But there is affordable metered parking up and down Durant Street and the duration is for 2-4 hours.

I can't give more than two stars for what is, unfortunately without a doubt, the biggest financial…read moreand temporal mistake of my life. But it is not all the WI fault, it is more the field. I'm writing this for the prospective student considering application. Please deeply consider your options. It's what you think you want until you get it, and let me tell you why. When you get out, which is not your whole journey, (you still have post doc work to do), there is not a plethora of opportunities. Again, it's not just the WI- the value of the education is vastly overpriced. If you don't get a job at Kaiser, you will be swallowed by them. Private practice, and the prices you will need to pay back your loan, CEUs, and live in this area, are virtually (figuratively and literally) a thing of the past. It is not possible to compete with the low rates a therapist from Kaiser charges, and the unethical practices (group therapy for individual presenting problems, HIPPA legally thrown out the window, etc) they get away with. Apps like Better Help will have you making just above what a Door Dasher makes as they saturate the field with the most minimum license above dog catcher to populate their therapist offerings. Because of the ethics of the field, you cannot effectively advertise, and getting clients from senior psychologists comes at the price of a referral fee. You're coming into a field that sees us as pawns. I don't agree with other reviews about it being white- centric. When I went applications to internships on them said "People of color STRONGLY encouraged to apply." Mm hm. If you cannot find whatever solace you need dead-center in the most liberal city in the most liberal field in the nation/world, may I recommend applying instead to a kindergarten program. I had some beautiful kind souls that taught me here, and one or two who were not a good fit. But some glaring gaps- it never taught me the DSM, and it didn't prepare me for licensure. I passed, but that was all on me; perhaps that is the final test to see if you are ready, but I would have preferred a smoother bridge to licensure. Please learn from my mistake: I was once you.

So I was taking the part-time Data Analytics boot camp hosted by Trilogy Education for the past 6…read moremonths AND...I just graduated from it!! Yay!! Go me!! Hehe ANYWAYS, when I started this boot camp I thought maybe I'll learn and retain ALL the information. Though, I knew it would be very difficult because I came into this with NO CODING EXPERIENCE! This class is also fully virtual and I was probably the youngest one in the cohort since the majority of them looked like they were in their mid 30s-50s. NOTE: The instructor reminded us multiple times to expect many headaches, tears, frustrations, and the feeling of giving up and YES, I and many others in the cohort felt it all (~1/4 of the cohort dropped). Ok, so since this course is held fully virtually, that was something I was worried about. I actually ended up barely noticing it was an online class since it was LIVE and very INTERACTIVE where the instructor teaches and then everyone gets broken up into groups for classwork, and then we all come back together to discuss. Since I chose the part-time option, that meant there would be classes two days per week where each class was 2 hour sessions. Class was enjoyable and I ACTUALLY had fun and looked forward to attending class! We also had 5 TAs who held their own office hours for two hours on their chosen day (Friday-Sunday) or if you attend class 30 minutes early, they hold office hours there too. I attended office hours at least once a week and the TAs were very helpful. The instructor seemed to know his stuff when teaching during class, BUT sometimes he didn't know the answer to the questions we asked him. Not going to blame him though! This course is taught VERY FAST since it IS a boot camp. It's 24 weeks long, so each week is a new topic or language. Something which helped me complete all my weekly assignments was by starting the homework LITERALLY right after the Wednesday classes (my class sessions were Mondays and Wednesdays)! It's VERY important to form a study group in the beginning of the course because having a group helped me understand the material better (my study group was a group of 7 girls who met up weekly on Thursdays through Zoom). A perk from this boot camp is you can sign up for a tutor. I definitely knew I wanted a tutor! I mean...I might as well get all the help I can get and use all the resources and people available since this course ain't cheap! I don't know what I would have done without my tutor's help; she explained things well and sent me some resources. I also enjoyed the AskBCS service they have which is available throughout the majority of the day, BUT sometimes the person I got wasn't as helpful as others (several people in my cohort agreed with me on this). My class had about 44 students (the ones that didn't drop) and it was mixed with people of different education and career levels. For example, there were some people with a PhD, a Masters degree, and people with only a Bachelors degree. There were also people who already work in the industry as Senior positions. Knowing all of this was a little intimidating for me, but hey, it's great for networking! Oh and speaking of networking, this course comes with a "Career Services" section to help you become "employer competitive," but most of that doesn't start until the last month of the course. The career services was pretty much non-existent throughout the course and I wish I had more time with them. Would I recommend? I feel like I would recommend this boot camp to people who want a career change, BUT I would NOT recommend it to people who ONLY want to learn more of a specific language. The instructor only spent one week on most topics. I personally think one week is only enough to get the basics of a programming language. Even the instructor said we would have to review everything all over again AFTER the course! IF you do decide to take this bootcamp, then I would HIGHLY recommend having 2 or more monitors since that would make it less frustrating during the live online classes. I only had 1 monitor and got overwhelmed when the instructor was teaching too fast or when he was jumping from screen to screen, while others had 2-5 monitors.

Do not get the bootcamps they offer. They just waste your time. They cancel on me twice. After they…read morehad me paying ahead of time they canceled on me when I only had $3,000 left to pay. Now they are making me wait 30-60 days until I get my full refund. That is not fair, they are making me pay for their mistakes. I am not happy. They have $5,765 of my money and they are holding it hostage. I am very upset about this. Please don't do it, don't let it happen to you! They cancel the course and they don't even tell you why. Don't trust Edx or 2U.

This review is based on two classes taken at Vista - one in the spring quarter of 2006 & one in the…read moresummer quarter of 2006. *NOTE: Vista has closed and re-opened about a block away as Berkeley City College. About a year ago, I became interested in ASL - Americal Sign Language. I took ASL I in the spring quarter of '06 and a finger-spelling class in the summer of '06. Both teachers were great - I learned a lot and have had lots of fun learning sign. My education in ASL continues at Berkeley City College. As part of the Peralta Colleges, Vista was a great community college in a good location in Berkeley. Want to further your education? Just want to take a class for fun? Check out (formerly Vista) Berkeley City College!

Does anyone have information regarding the financial aid department that was linked to fraud a few…read moreyears ago? A letter was sent to students -giving a deadline to respond; but I was so sick at the time. I misplaced the letter and now I am stuck with a loan that I did not even receive. Please help if you can. Respond to my email address: mary4797@sbcglobal.net

If I could go back in time I would go to school here. I enjoy the atmosphere which puts me in…read morelearning mode. The bookstore is comparable to walking into William and Sonoma or the Apple Store. It's a highly designed space.

I applied here twice as an African indigenous and Southwest Asian Christian only to get rejected…read more Arabic is literally my first language, and I was told that one didn't need to be Muslim to get accepted. Before I applied here, I was told by a Muslim professor that I should apply here as he would happily recommend me to study here. It sounded to be some sort of insincere sarcasm on his part. I believe they do not accept christians or if they actually do, maybe they should show in their social media non-Muslims.

I really appreciate my education from J. F. K. probably even more so now than when I was in school…read more I really learned a great deal from various artists and instructors that is still impacting not only my art, but my interactions with the community, my work, and life.

Martin Luther King Jr. Student Union is U.C. Berkeley's student union building. besides all the…read morestudent services this building holds, there's also space for a mini food court. food court open to the public, hours, m-f, 11-3 p.m. La Cocina alumnae begun popups here earlier in the year. will be here at least 2 more quarters. current lineup: -Noodle Girl; Vietnam, noodles and soup -Old Damamcus Fare: traditional Syrian Fare -Pink and Red's: soul food -A Girl Named Pinky: baked goods -El Meson de Violeta: Chilean empananda foodnotes: -metered parking nearby -similar foods not easily found elsewhere....

All Things Must Pass!!!! The weathered, yellow, tired old MLK student Union has been rehabbed and…read morefinally finished. Now, sporting loads of Windows on all sides, lots of chairs and tables, outlets ( of course), and mixed use, flanked by a new Student Store, an Amazon Locker room, & topped with Marin's Equator coffee, pizza,& a burger place. What a difference a few decades makes! Especially nice is the NW corner in which gorgeous logs are used for benches and art. The Bears Lair is no longer in this building, and finally, FINALLY!!! One can walk straight through the square to Zellerbach!

UC Berkeley should never, ever have graduations in the Greek Theater in the afternoon. We attended…read morea graduation that started at 2 pm and it was so sweltering hot that we could not stay for the whole ceremony. We were admonished to stay for the whole ceremony but if we did we would easily have a heat stroke. Delaying the ceremony a few hours later would make the ceremony tolerable. The public health graduation ceremony we attended today, indeed was not in the interest of public health.

Had a good time studying here. I enjoyed going deep into the stacks at Doe to read for hours in…read moreblissful silence. Many afternoons spent people watching in Sproul Plaza and cheering for the Bears on Saturdays in Memorial stadium. More people watching while sipping espressos at Cafe Roma. Getting lost in Dwinelle. Washing dish and mopping the floor at the sorority on Prospect Street. Making friends and pondering the future. You'll like it here.

Best architecture school out there. Classes are held during evenings and weekends helping students…read morewho work. I am very happy with SFIA and can't wait to finish my Masters! I am already interviewing with different architecture firms in the Bay Area and employers are very impressed with my portfolio and my knowledge on ecological design.

I enrolled with the San Francisco Institute of Architecture six years ago, for their Bachelor of…read moreScience in Architecture degree. Despite having been practicing as an architect for several years, the whole emphasis of Sustainable Architecture and Construction opened up a whole new world to me. I realised at the outset that their degrees were not accredited, but the knowledge I gained was enormously helpful to me, so much so that after completing my bachelors degree, I went on to do a combined Masters degree in Architecture and Green Building, which I completed at the end of last year. Over the course of my studies there were some issues with getting responses to my assignments, the reason given was that because of the standard of my work, only periodic reviews were necessary. It took a while to get my certificates, but I have both my Bachelors and Masters degree documentation, with certificates and transcripts, so yes, possibly they could be a bit slicker in their response time, but I absolutely believe they are worth studying with - provided you don't need an accredited qualification. The course material is brilliant.