"There are hippies and stoners and gutter punks and preppy, Abercrombie-and-Fitch-donning, cell-phone-carrying socialites. There are frat boys and oddball co-opers, the politically zealous and the religious fanatics, the atheists and the trannies" at Berkeley. "The students are crazy, hailing from all geographical, philosophical, socioeconomic, political, and psychological points of view," reports one student. And they're "united by one thing: their hatred for Stanford-er, I mean thirst for learning." Sure, students here take their studies seriously, but when the competitive academic life is set aside, they're a laid-back crowd. "My fellow students and I all share the prevalent California attitude that everything is great and that things will work out." The most prevalent trait among the Berkeley student body, however, is independence. In some students' minds, this means that their classmates are "people that will really change the world, discover the cure for something, save a country, build the better mousetrap." In other students' minds, this means their classmates are "soulless GPA mongers" whose only concern is a good grade. -TPR-
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