looking really more in depth at ucberkeley's student website for the first time, it made me realise one thing, i actually do not know much about the school at all, the culture, the people, the academia etc. i asked myself, "what about this school did i like so much? what made me so eager to get into this school?"
at that moment, i was lost for words. i don't know? it's good, its prestigious, its not that cold, its had lots of asians, wow... that's all i really know about the school?
I give myself excuses that this is normal, because i'm a foreign student, i don't even have the chance to go to berkeley's open house day or get to see their campus myself unless i really go there in fall. Then i ask myself, why berkeley? why not other options? it was then i realised that i was so accustomed to people around me saying that berkeley is really good that i have convinced myself that thats the only place for me.
To tell the truth, i'm really afraid of going to a foreign country, how will i get used to it? will it be very fast-paced? how is the culture like? What are the people like? So many questions in my head left unanswered.
But I know i have to start now, and take more interest in finding out what berkeley really has to offer me, what other universities have to offer, so that i am sure that i have made the right decision, so that when people ask me why berkeley, i wouldnt answer them like "oh my parents said it was good, my brother said it was good, my friends said it was good." i would say, "it is definitely the school i want to be in for the next three years."