The Student Experience

What students have to say

On staying in touch:
“I call my parents like every other day or so. At the beginning I started e-mailing, but my parents aren’t technology oriented.”
— Nicholas Manginelli, freshman

On selecting a major:
“I initially came here thinking I was going to med school. But I’ve totally changed my mind: now I’m going into business and mass communications. So that’s very different, a very big swap.... I’m planning to either get my MBA or a law degree.”
— Catherine Jedlicka, sophomore, business and mass communications major

On academic concerns:
“At Cal there’s a lot of pressure, because it’s one of the finer research universities in the country, and that can be intimidating. You come here thinking everyone’s a genius but you. And then you realize it’s just a normal school, and people are people.”
— Caitlin Garvey, junior, comparative literature major