Should I go to UC Berkeley for 75k a year and take on the debt?
I’m a computer science professor, I hold a PhD, and I live in California. If I had a bright, hardworking child who wanted to study STEM, while I would support their preference, I would strongly discourage them from attending UC Berkeley.
The class sizes are outrageous, especially in CS. The intro class holds up to 2,000 students in the fall.
If you’re impressed by research, realize that it’s much harder to get into a lab as an undergraduate, and if you do, you’ll likely be mentored by a more senior undergraduate who is themselves being mentored by a grad student who will occasionally meet with the professor.
Living in Berkeley is absurd. The cost is high, the competition for apartments is intense, and much of the housing is low quality.
I get the appeal, and perhaps I’d have a different opinion for the humanities and social sciences, but for STEM, I’d choose an academically more conducive environment.
Now if you’re taking on $75,000 a year in debt, that’s just nonsense. Absolute nonsense. That’s so far beyond the scope of reason that it should be an entrance test; if you’re willing to do so, you should not be at Berkeley.
中文翻译
我应该每年花费7.5万美元去加州大学伯克利分校,并承担债务吗? 我是一名计算机科学教授,拥有博士学位,居住在加利福尼亚。如果我有一个聪明、勤奋的孩子想要学习STEM(科学、技术、工程和数学),虽然我会支持他们的选择,但我会强烈劝阻他们不要去加州大学伯克利分校。
课程规模太庞大,特别是在计算机科学领域。入门课程在秋季学期最多容纳2,000名学生。
如果你对研究印象深刻,要意识到作为本科生要进入实验室会更加困难,如果成功进入,你可能会由一名更高年级的本科生指导,而他们自己则是一名研究生生导师的学生,偶尔会与教授见面。
住在伯克利是荒谬的。成本高昂,公寓竞争激烈,而且大部分住房质量较低。
我理解其吸引力,也许我对人文和社会科学有不同的看法,但对于STEM来说,我会选择一个学术环境更有利的地方。
现在,如果你每年承担7.5万美元的债务,那就太荒谬了。绝对的荒谬。这已经远远超出了合理范围,应该成为一个入学考试;如果你愿意这样做,那么你不应该选择伯克利。
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