things u didnt know about berkeley (or at least i didnt know!)

Berkeley is a hill station! well UC berkeley is built on a hill and my department is on top of that hill! and yes there is a distinction between berkeley the city and berkeley the university! however a lot of berkeley city has been taken over by berkeley university.... its a town of young people.... students students everywhere!

Berkeley is COLD! (yes yes im talking about berkeley california!) its cold in the typical summer months (ie july n august) and then it starts to get warmer in september.... strange very strange. it is actually cold enough to require a jacket during the day and a heavy blanket or quilt at night. there is no central air conditioning in most places, but there is central heating.

You can never tell where one city ends and the other begins.... the same roads with the same names continue through multiple cities and u can never tell.... two houses or two shops next to each other could be in different cities.

There are very few... n i mean very few pakistani students here, and even fewer graduate students and literally two male graduate students! (one of them is the guy that is also on a fulbright scholarship n in my department... and definately not my type) and the other is still a myth... ive heard that he exists but i dont know who he is and where he can be found. so there goes my notion of finding an eligible guy around here.