Boston People plz lmk

[srcole3284]

Yea alot of people say cali people have an accent, i dont think so, we just talk normal!!!LOL

welll there is a lot of +/- with Berkley and Stanford. I grew up in the Bay and have loved every min of it. Ill start with the postives of the bay in general

Bay POSITIVES:
So the bay area is the $#!t!!! They is anything you want to do with a 2 hour max drive. In the bay you can visit big cities, San Francisco, Oakland ect.. Beautifull sights, drive an hour south and you hit Santa Cruz. Best beaches in the world IMO(believe me, ive been arround the world,literallt, and would rather be at a Santa cruz beach) to include a few nude ones!!! Drive 2 hours east and you hit the Searia Navada Mtns. where form about late Oct early Nov till May early June you have the finest slopes on the west coast. There is just so many good places to eat/hang otu/visit/bars within San Fran, Berkley, and Okaland that you just cant find any better. The peple are nice, the kind of nice your probally used to in Texas, polar oppisite than so cal. Just an all arround good place to be. mild weather all year arround. relaxed. a little solwer in the big cities then the normal fast pace of big cities. and the women... you have your pick of just about any type you are into. Surfer, skater, prep, country gire(mostly in the valley) and they are all (for the most part) relaxed and are really chill.

Bay -'s:
You can get lost in the Cities pretty easy. My sugestion would take BART(Bay Area Rapid Transit). Also alot of the areas arround the bay(espically outside of Stanford in Palo Alto) can get really gettho. Im not kidding either. You know when you hear about cities withthe highest chrime rates, yea they always have atleast 2-3 Cities in the tops 20. I.E. Hayword, Vallejo, East Oakland... Traffic can get bad in the East bay arround Bearkley and Oakland but there is like 20 freeways goinf anyway you need to go. Bridge toll is all ways a kick in the balls. most of the bridges are like 4-5 bucks to get on and there are like 6 bridges in the area!! the cost of living is up there but its easy to find someone with a room ther renting out very easaly, thank you craigs list!! but thats about it and the negitives.

Both Stanford and Berkely are great schools, but I would suggest Berkley due to it being a really forward thinking school. Your GPA and test scores are a factor but they really look hard at all the other things you have done in the past. like clubs, internships and they will actually look at what has brought you to this point in your life. The admissions people there will take everything into consideration before making there diesissions. sometimes they will take someone with a lower GPA and test scores over someone with higher marks if they have proved themselves in other areas.

Sorry for the long responce but i hope this helps. if you have any speciffic ?'s about cali let me now and ill hit you back. later days bro!

[11chaos]

The Devil Dog before me hit it right on the head, California rocks.

However ask yourself are you ready for a little shaking? I mean the earth literally moving. It can be a bit overwhelming. Some people (Transplants) really have an issue with this. However the Blizzards/Nor'Easters are no fun either.

Boston's traffic is horrible but guess what? The (Interstate) 5 in Cali is just as bad. No matter where you go and there are people it can get bad. If you have the oppurtunity to apply to all four then do so. Then make a decision based on which one meets the most of your needs. Regardless of where you choose, good luck, keep up with the good work and your smart decisions.

[srcole3284]

well my shipmate above is smack on with the traffic!LOL the 5 is horible in SO Cal! the good thing is the 5 doesnt run through the bay. but you have to watch out for the 242, 880, 980, 780, 580, 4, 680, the 80 going accross the Bay Bridge, the 101...you get my point. im not shure how Boston is on public transit but you have plenty of ways to get arround in the bay. Just a suggestion though, say away from the MUNI in San Fran. Makes the NY subwayd look imacculate!

[kittykatlynn]

well my shipmate above is smack on with the traffic!LOL the 5 is horible in SO Cal! the good thing is the 5 doesnt run through the bay. but you have to watch out for the 242, 880, 980, 780, 580, 4, 680, the 80 going accross the Bay Bridge, the 101...you get my point. im not shure how Boston is on public transit but you have plenty of ways to get arround in the bay. Just a suggestion though, say away from the MUNI in San Fran. Makes the NY subwayd look imacculate!

I see...So if I were to either go to Stanford or Berkley, would having a car just be a hindrance?

[quinn16]

If i rember correctly havard is supposed to have the best business school in the country

[jlzinck]

Here is some advice from a 42 y/o who liven in Boston for the 1st 38 years of his life.

Boston may be the biggest college town in the world. All the schools are within a 30 min drive of each other:
Harvard, MIT, BU, BC, Tufts, Wellesley, Northeastern, Wentworth.

That being said the housing is at a premium so some of the housing is in less than desired places. Check carefully about where you will be living.

The Mass Transit is very good. The T (Red, Blue, Orange and Red lines) can bring you as far north as Malden and as far south as Braintree and Quincy. It also goes as far wast as Newton.

The Commuter Rail (Amtrak trains) go as far west as Worcester, north to Salem and Lowell and South to the Rhode Island Line.

Cambridge is a very liberal and diverse city.

Boston is expensive but not on the scale of NY or SF. There are some of the best teaching hospitals in the world and the Dana Farber Cancer Institute.

It hot and humid in the summer and cold as heck in the winter. The Spring and Summer are beautiful.

You can be in any of 6 other states within 2 hours and to Canada within 4 hours.

Good Luck with your school

[kittykatlynn]

Here is some advice from a 42 y/o who liven in Boston for the 1st 38 years of his life.

Boston may be the biggest college town in the world. All the schools are within a 30 min drive of each other:
Harvard, MIT, BU, BC, Tufts, Wellesley, Northeastern, Wentworth.

That being said the housing is at a premium so some of the housing is in less than desired places. Check carefully about where you will be living.

The Mass Transit is very good. The T (Red, Blue, Orange and Red lines) can bring you as far north as Malden and as far south as Braintree and Quincy. It also goes as far wast as Newton.

The Commuter Rail (Amtrak trains) go as far west as Worcester, north to Salem and Lowell and South to the Rhode Island Line.

Cambridge is a very liberal and diverse city.

Boston is expensive but not on the scale of NY or SF. There are some of the best teaching hospitals in the world and the Dana Farber Cancer Institute.

It hot and humid in the summer and cold as heck in the winter. The Spring and Summer are beautiful.

You can be in any of 6 other states within 2 hours and to Canada within 4 hours.

Good Luck with your school

AHHH!!! Forgot it was humid over there!!! Urg! How bad is the humidity around Boston?

[srcole3284]

I see...So if I were to either go to Stanford or Berkley, would having a car just be a hindrance?

no its worth having a car, you just have to get used to using alternate routes to get places sometimes. traffic is only bad from 6-8 in the morning and about 3-5 in the afternoon. you get used to it. its hardly ever at a stand still. it will vary from about 10-30 mph. but with the bay everything is so close you wont be in it for long! plus the humidity in the bay... at the most you'll hit 10-15% at most! not even noticible! you have to hit so cal to get even 35 at the most down by the border!

[Shayne1911]

I've never been to Boston. A girl I work with took a week trip up there a few weeks ago. She doesn't talk a whole lot, so I don't know a lot about it. But from what she did say I could tell she liked it.

It's good that you've turned your life around! A lot of people don't do that. Good luck getting into the school you want! And good luck once getting there!!

[kittykatlynn]

I've never been to Boston. A girl I work with took a week trip up there a few weeks ago. She doesn't talk a whole lot, so I don't know a lot about it. But from what she did say I could tell she liked it.

It's good that you've turned your life around! A lot of people don't do that. Good luck getting into the school you want! And good luck once getting there!!

Thanks man, but I still got a long way to go to finish this turn around...got a bit of a smoking problem which Im tryin to stop.