My Interview with a UC Berkeley Student (Rebecca)

My interviewee is a very nice sister who I met in another class of my summer school the sleep of psychology. I invited her to a café near our campus interviewed her at Friday afternoon after the psychology class was over. She is Chinese, the same as me (OMG! there are really so many Chinese people in Berkeley!), and her hometown is Inner Mongolia in China. Her name is Yujie Bu with a really rare and strong first name in Chinese ‘Bu’, and I always call her Cathy. She is a junior student in Berkeley and major in economics in the College of Letter and Science. She says   since it is not a very complicated major and it doesn’t take all her extra time to do her homework, she is now doing two part-time jobs here. We first talked about her experience when she prepared for going aboard and finally got admitted to Berkeley. She finished her high school in China, but unlike the most students in her school, she determined to study in an American university in the last year of her high school. At that time, the main reason she made this decision was that she didn’t want to attend the horrible college entrance examination in China and her English was really good. So after getting the support of her parents, she began to prepared for SAT and TOFEL. It was a tough and confusing time for her because English is not her mother tone and she also had no idea which school she could reach at that time, but she insisted with the encouragement of her parents and friends. Due to her efforts, she got good grades and began to thinking about the university. Considering about a lot of factors such as the academic research standard, the reputation and rank in US and the relatively lower tuition, she choose the Berkeley as her goal and achieved it finally. When it comes to her comments of this school, she told me what she like most are libraries. There are 32 libraries which tie together to make the fourth largest academic library in the United States, and every library is well-decorated and well-equipped. Cathy told me that she can even spend the whole day just sitting in the library without doing anything because she is extremely fond of the atmosphere here. What she likes the least is the food here, and she told me that she really missed Chinese food! It took us about half an hour to do this interview and that’s a great time for me. We also plan to go to NYC next weekend together!

(ps: there should have been a photo of us here, but after I asked a men for help to take a picture using my phone, he actually didn’t save it! It was too late when I went home and realized it. How careless I am!)