Clark Kerr Campus — Attraction in Berkeley

Everything so good worth a 5-star except one super annoying thing!

Explanation for deduction of the 2-3 stars: Sloppy and unresponsive housekeeping.

1. only one trashcan provided for bathroom but nothing in living room

2. not cleaned the trashcan with disposal of foods for many days so people have to put it outside of bathroom

3. complained the residents why not to return the trashcan to bathroom rather than why they did not clean the food-smelled trashcan day by day. Trying to take advantage of other people’s faults to cover or shirk their own responsibilities.

4. Petty and Malicious People Who Schemes behind Others’ Backs-BACKSTABBERS: instead of communicating with the residents when they were still there and more than willing to corporate when they have any requests, not to speak anything in face but put all the complaints behind people’s back to ask the organizers to notice. Made residents feel quite uncomfortable by shrewdly dealing with communication in this way. *If you housekeepers are not able to communicate with people in English when you see people are there, using a Translator is totally fine.

5)all complaints to others but never had sense about their faults. Took detergent pods and restaurant/convenience store’s receipts away from the surface of desks! Made me have to buy the detergent again. And made me lost my receipt to cast accounts! No one informed me things put on the desk surface should be considered as trash by...

Clark Kerr is a beautiful place to live, and the commute, while far, is often exaggerated. There's lots of natural scenery, big rooms and lounges, and it's adjacent to student-accessible track, pool, tennis courts, volleyball pits, and hiking trails. And it is surrounded by a similarly beautiful neighborhood that makes you feel as though you are frequently separated from the chaos of the UC campus. This, however, comes with a downside of feeling isolated from the campus activity and prone to staying in your dorm room rather than getting out and involved at school. All in all, the one serious downside to Clark Kerr is the uniquely antisocial atmosphere. Certain cliques -- primarily the athletes and the frat/sorority rushers -- dominate the dorms in a homogeneous and unaccepting way. It's difficult to avoid them, and it can get annoying if you do not fit nicely into them. There certainly aren't as many hardcore STEM kids here; it's generally more a party culture kind of group, if you're into that. Living here for a third year now, so there is definitely a net benefit. But you need to be prepared for the kinds of exclusive crowds you encounter here. Of course, there will be decent kids, but it's definitely a different kind of group...

Pretty campus. Lots of paths through the campus where the kids can explore on bikes. Great activities for the kids in the camps run by UC Berkeley in the summer. I've been here for conferences, too, and the facilities are nice. However, there is not very much bicycle parking, especially not around the conference hall, and I've always ended up locking my bike to...