Berkeley, CA

UC Berkeley was the last place for us to visit on our Californian trip. In addition to wanting to see a top 3 school, we also were keen to meet two of our friends who are getting their PhDs at UCB: Sujit Kirpekar and Nihar Shah. We took the BART out of Fremont and our train actually had to stop due to some technical problem and we waited 10 minutes for the next train. But the BART system is really smooth from what we saw in our two trips from Fremont to SF and to Berkeley.


Berkeley itself was fascinating: while the school is pretty much like any other campus, it is the surrounding areas, the coffee shops, the street vendors, the book stores...everything has a peaceful, take your time kind of appeal. Reminded Adi of some places in Goa! We've probably never known hippyness, but this felt close to it. We met with Sujit and Nihar for lunch, after which Sujit showed us around the campus and even his lab and some of his research. We also got to go to the Bell Tower and see the scenery from there: Purdue should've had that too...I doubt anyone can go up there. That there's probably not much to see from there is another matter.


Visit ended, we grabbed some coffee and made it back to Fremont by the BART where Wrena picked us up. Our last day in this wonderfully warm and chilled out place.

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