Hi! I'm Rebecca Chambers, a current third-year student at UC Berkeley. I graduated in 2007 from El Diamante High School in Visalia, CA. It was a new public school of approximately 2000 students. Because it was new, my school didn't offer a wide variety of classes, clubs, or sports teams, so everything had to be started by students. In high school, I loved English and History/Social Sciences (AP Government and AP US History were my all-time favorites!), which probably explains why I'm a History major here at Berkeley. While in high school, I was pretty much a band geek (played clarinet in marching band), participated in mock trial, and wrote for my high school's newspaper. Now in college, I'm involved in a Christian fellowship and like to volunteer with different activities at the YWCA when I have time.
Overall, I LOVE college...high school, not so much. I had a math teacher who required all of his students to sign out to use the bathroom on a computer, which would turn to a screen with the student's name and a timer, so the whole class could monitor how long students were gone. And I hated homeroom, which was half an hour everyday of listening to announcements and being forced to make trips to the career center or library. However, although high school was full of seemingly meaningless rules and regulations, I realize now that my involvement in high school - clubs, academics, social life - actually helped get me to UC Berkeley. Even those boring trips to the career center helped to keep me on track to fill out college applications when I was finally a senior.
And a word of advice: High school goes quickly, so make the most of it! Have fun, enjoy your friends and even your classes, and find out what you're interested in. College is just around the corner, waiting for you...so start preparing now!
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