UC Berkeley was the meeting place of my parents in...

UC Berkeley was the meeting place of my parents in the 1960s both anthropology majors. My mother developed an intense narcissist complex while a student here as she described to me. I couldn t understand her advice of taking the easiest classes in order to get the highest grades and forget everything after the test. My father got B s yet remembered everything so I think the professors got the students mixed up. My mother became ultra competitive toward me yelling at me for having physics textbooks in the house. She said she just couldn t do Calculus II but her stories she is consumed with herself studying German in bed. Or getting the top grade in linguistics big deal lady. I also told her that English is probably actually Danish Swedish origin as it has more in common than with German to invalidate her grades. I also have a nutcase acquaintance who brags about graduating phi beta kappa in chemistry and yet cant remember even simple concepts. Also my mom phi beta kappa brags about talking with Edward Teller at a party. Her view of herself is skewed as is the view of so many others who attend here. That is to say should we take the advice of easiest classes in the entire school to get the best grades and then brag about its reputation for having the most Nobel Prize winners in the world. I m involved with the mental health system now because of my inability to make the right connections. I can agree with taking a fairer grader professor in technical classes who motivates and nurtures but not my mom s of easy classes pretend all you want to be a genius. Truth is San Jose State and Arizona State have geniuses too get over yourself. Also diversity is so abysmally low there ought to be a law suit. Asians are just compulsive but not necessarily smarter than everyone else my mom case in point. I m looking for my friend Darryl D who transferred with me from CCSF out of high school for computer science probably has a security clearance. I was enrolled in Reserve Officers Training Corps for the Army, Major Abenhouse said I would have been a good officer. I was an Applied Mathematics major and taking all the wrong professors to accomodate ROTC in the afternoon. They kept saying the women math profs if you come to lecture do the work ask questions you will at least get a B. I also had friends Kirsten M in Mechanical engineering with Professor Tongue and his stories about the Z3. And there was Kelly G in Army ROTC wonder how my friends careers worked out