Foothill Student Housing — Attraction in Berkeley

For every incoming student, pls don’t choose this horrible place to stay.

1 Foothill is very far away from teaching buildings, supermarkets and restaurants. (ik Clark Kerr is further away from everything and I feel sorry for people who live there but i think only a small amount of people live there or maybe bc it's too far away from everything so people who live there don't come to campus that often so the chances of meeting them are quite small🤨)

2 If you’re lucky enough to live in hillside, there are always many big trucks driving through the steep road next to the dorm and they make tons of loud noises due to their poor engines starting from the morning every day to wake you up.

3 This place has the worst dining hall ( idk if it’s that the campus doesn’t like this dorm or the manager thinks the kids here are all brats so he decided to let them suffer but whatever). Crossroads and cafe3 serve kinda juicy beef very often but only foothill doesn’t serve beef at all (oh wait! they do but only in the beginning of the very first semester to impress you and then maybe later once every 4 months). Instead, they only serve dry cardboard chicken breast (the type of chicken breast you can use to hit someone’s head and the person’s head will bleed)

4 Its gym is so small (Every dorm has a small gym and I've been to the one in unit 1 and it is quite small as well). Just try to get to live in Blackwell. The gym in Blackwell has dumbells, a smithmachine, benches, leg machines... everything.

5 Few buses come to this place. Plus, the buses in berkeley usually come late and they sometimes just don't come so if you want to go somewhere downhill, you better walk most of the time bc you might end up waiting your bus forever.

6 Stupid design. I don't understand why I can't go through the Stern hall, which is a dorm only for females students ik. buildings at hillside are Sausage-shaped and there are only 3 entrances that connected to the main roads. Thr first one is at the every left end on Hearst Ave, the second one is at the left end as well on Gayley Rd, which is close to the first entrance, and the last one is at the very right side on Gayley Rd but the last one is not a straight path. instead, it makes you detour around the stern hall which is in the middle and in front of foothill dorm. I think it would be a good idea to have a entrance that connected to the middle part of foothill dorm. The campus can definitely set a gate that people who live in foothill and the stern can acess and set some doors inside the stern hall to block people who don't live there from coming in. There are a bunch of other stupid designs in foothill as well but I'm not gonna talk ab them here.

Old. Unit 1 to 3 are all using card door locks and only foothill is still using keys (they are kinda filthy after being used so often). Also, the windows, the pool table in the rec room are all quite old.

Hot. Idk ab the other dorms but it is quite hot here and there is no ac (for those who don't know this, there's no ac in most places on campus bc the campus is poor)

My final advice......

Don't live in a dorm!!! Tell the campus specifically that you don't want to live in the dorms. The price is $2500 a month for a double room here (ik it includes the blue meal plan which is around $600 but but but it is a double room so you're forced to share a room with another person you don't know at all and you might get a person who only uses water to wash their clothes without laundry detergent. Moreover, you will never know what type of people will live in your suite like people in my suite are always very noisy and often don't flush the toilets oh and someone just threw up in the bathtub earlier, i don't know if that person is retarded or what but why couldn't he throw up in a toilet). It is a overpriced for its quality.

Renting a one bedroom studio outside the campus only costs $1500 - $2000 per month but you can get your own room and a quiet space and you can still buy the meal plan...

I lived here in 2021 as a freshman, and during that time I moved out with a penalty fee because how terrible the management and service were.

One African American female front desk worker at the mailroom, about 5'5 slightly chubby, has always had a very very terrible attitude. And during busy times once I walked in to get package she got very physically close and made shoving gestures to force people to go out. Many of my other friends received the same mis-treatment but decided to stay silent to avoid trouble. I have never filed complaint on her in fear of repercussions. It's been 4 years and I finally decided that this cannot be tolerated in silence. I do not know if she still works there -- if she is there I hope incoming students can identify here based on my description and know how to defend your rights against such a miserable employee. I left one suit and some books by accident in my dorm room in my freshman winter break. After I came back I the things were gone and I was never informed how that happened, whether through theft or what. Only after I called I realized the dorm management took my things and didn't want to return them. There was nothing I can do.

Foothill management, I do not think you would read this, but if you do. My name is Jinjian Liu, I was a Berkeley student, I stand on every single word I say. If you think my review is misjudging you, feel more than welcome to reach out to me by any means possible. I am ready for any and every of your question. You need to FIRE employees mistreating students and enforce better policies that DO NOT DISREGARD the properties of...

There are several dining halls in Berkeley, but Foothill is my favorite. This is my first semester in Stern and I live in a girl’s dorm, needless to say, I have to find a place where I can eat good, healthy and not so expensive food in order to survive! Foothill is placed conveniently close to where I currently live, so it’s my favorite and closest place for having dinner or late night snack when I miss the dinner. They are serving dinner from 5pm to 8pm and it is more like all you can eat buffet. The menu is not always the same and that is what I like about it, there is always something new and unique on the menu and so far everything I tried was delicious as heck! They post their menu online every day so you can easily take a sneak-peek at what you will be having for dinner.  My fave is the tri tip with chimichurri sauce. The food is fresh and they also have a decent choice for...