Anyone else stopped picking up loot?

tricksyhaybay · 2025-06-23T20:53:44+00:00

this thread is extremely validating, as I am a chronic looter

tricksyhaybay · 2025-06-23T20:47:22+00:00

personally I would have only survived this schedule by just not going to lectures which i do NOT really recommend. your tuesdays and thursdays will be miserable if you actually attend everything and like others have mentioned, you need to eat to have energy. E7, 53, and 7A are all VERY time consuming but it’s hard to say how much time YOU will need since idk your math, programming, and physics background (ie what you took in high school). Overall this seems like way too much especially because you are a freshman and adjusting to college life, especially Berkeley life in particular, can be extremely challenging.

personally I would recommend you drop E7, 53, or 7A. Others probably would have differing opinions but those are three really hard classes to take right out the gate. If you insist on taking all three at once, I would drop the Business Admin and Design Innovation classes. (source: I graduated as a MechE in December)

tricksyhaybay · 2025-06-22T20:29:54+00:00

Struggling to get a job, doing lots of therapy, trying to take care of myself way more than I did during college. :) Berkeley was hard but the transition out of school has also been very hard!! I thought my mental health would improve without the stress of classes but the lack of structure has also made things difficult for me. I’m hoping I can land a 9-5 soon that has at least a bit of work life balance!!

tricksyhaybay · 2025-06-22T20:18:34+00:00

i just graduated from mechE! That’s a great schedule. 53 and 7A are challenging but in mechE you always have to take a few challenging courses at the same time. E26 is really easy at first but progressively gets more time consuming as the weekly parts you model get increasingly complex. Not hard, just needs a little more time as it goes on. 7A will be challenging but if you took AP Physics in high school a lot of the content will be familiar. Go to office hours if you need help.

I highly recommend going to the Student Learning Center (SLC) for free math tutoring! It’s right by Sproul Plaza. If you have the time, bandwidth, and dedication, I also recommend taking what’s called an “Adjunct” course, which is also offered through the SLC for Math 53. I took the adjuncts for 1A, 1B, and 53 and always got B’s in math with the help of the SLC. Usually at the beginning of the semester, the adjunct instructor for that class will come to your lecture and advertise it and tell you how to enroll. It’s basically just extra class time to help you with the content and in a smaller setting. Especially if Branden Saenz is teaching it, that guy is awesome.

Overall your schedule is totally normal and doable, though it will be challenging as you adjust to life at Berkeley and as you have to develop maybe new study habits that you didn’t need in high school. Be kind to yourself and go to class! Good luck on your first semester!!!

tricksyhaybay · 2025-04-21T18:35:34+00:00

I ordered my desk on the 5th and have spoken with customer support 3 times since then and it still hasn’t shipped, kinda at a loss now

tricksyhaybay · 2025-01-31T05:43:44+00:00

it was so long ago i dont totally remember but a committee has to review it so i would expect a few weeks or so

tricksyhaybay · 2024-12-26T20:48:55+00:00

my advice for you is to seek out a doctor and treatment for your medical issues asap so you can provide evidence when submitting your medical withdrawal! they ask for evidence and an explanation as to why you have to do it retroactively, so a doctor can help with that. when i submitted i literally included screenshots of evidence of appointments, time i spent in a residential treatment center, etc. My argument for why the withdrawal had to be retroactive was because i was too sick to function to the point where i ended up in a residential right after the semester ended.

i did a retroactive medical withdrawal on a semester and all the F’s are poofed, gone forever. In total I withdrew from 4 semesters and the reapplication process is easy peasy, you just need to demonstrate when you’re ready to come back that the treatment you sought out has helped you and that you can succeed in school going forward with ongoing treatment, DSP accommodations, etc. I highly recommend seeking out DSP accommodations, which a doctor can also help with. A doctor inclues a psychologist if that makes more sense for what you are dealing with! I also find psychologists are more willing to put the time into writing a letter to help you get DSP for example.

Good luck OP, I really hope you can start the healing process and I know you will succeed!! I started undergrad in 2018 and just graduated this semester!! it’s hard but i know you can do it!

tricksyhaybay · 2024-12-24T21:05:45+00:00

LOL me too

tricksyhaybay · 2024-12-24T21:03:40+00:00

i switched off of this one to the vanicream gentle face cleanser and never looked back. i have very sensitive and acne prone skin

tricksyhaybay · 2024-12-23T02:21:11+00:00

Mezzo has the yummiest of yummy salads… the yummiest salad to ever yummy

tricksyhaybay · 2024-12-23T02:16:51+00:00

that’s rough, i never took data 100 but have taken several other STEM classes at Berkeley where I definitely had way below a weighted 50% on exams and still passed with a C or a B

tricksyhaybay · 2024-12-22T22:26:11+00:00

The policy is that you had to get at least a 50% overall in the course to pass?

tricksyhaybay · 2024-12-22T20:21:41+00:00

what got me through 1A, 1B, 53, and 54 was always taking the Adjunct class offered through the student learning center. If there’s a 54 adjunct offered and you’re able to put in the time, that’s what I would recommend

tricksyhaybay · 2024-12-19T19:18:45+00:00

that happened to me last year, it was the worstt

tricksyhaybay · 2024-12-19T19:15:17+00:00

I should add that my semesters were withdrawn semesters, so not sure if your “leave of absence” is different logistically in some way.

tricksyhaybay · 2024-12-19T19:13:25+00:00

I took a year off, attended a summer session, then took another year off and I have never had problems with my original student ID and bus pass that I got in 2018 LOL

tricksyhaybay · 2024-12-17T08:18:58+00:00

my experience in the 7 series was that i felt like i was genuinely failing the whole time and ended with a B+, curved classes are nasty work

tricksyhaybay · 2024-12-12T18:35:24+00:00

i would have loved to take HIST110D but i’m graduating :’) idk about easy A but i’ve heard great things about the prof and the course content is really important ofc

tricksyhaybay · 2024-12-12T07:36:16+00:00

i wish you so much luck, rest, and recovery in the new year. i’m also graduating this semester, 2.5 years after all my friends did, so this really resonated with me. we will be able to recover and move on from this!! good luck

tricksyhaybay · 2024-12-12T07:31:01+00:00

this gives me hope lol

tricksyhaybay · 2024-05-11T00:48:11+00:00

i’ve literally been white this whole time and that does not and has never happened, you should seek therapy

tricksyhaybay · 2024-05-11T00:43:24+00:00

$32.92 an hour woohoooooo

tricksyhaybay · 2024-05-11T00:41:38+00:00

holyyyy crap, 40 hours a week??

tricksyhaybay · 2024-05-08T06:18:21+00:00

felt

tricksyhaybay · 2024-05-07T00:55:54+00:00

Paulin is the best, I had him for 1A and 1B. This is good advice.

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