Information for getting by at Cal

Enrollment and class schedules
Exams and class times are defined well in advance each semester, though they do get changed. Choose classes which don't have exams that clash.

To search for classes or exam schedules, follow the link. You can search the final exam schedule to check where your exam is, then have a look at the campus map to find where the building you have to go is. Good luck!

Text books are expensive. Shop around at Amazon and Barnes and Nobles. Calbook gives a good comparison of prices if you give it the ISBN.

For readers, you'll need to go to a place like Copy Central - your lecturer will tell you.

The Berkeley Melvyl system for accessing electronic documents and the INSPEC catalog of articles is very useful. You need to go to Berkeley's libraries to get full access. Also check out:
Berkeley
CRC handbooks (click IP access)
engineering research bibliography
dissertations
filing a dissertation
engineering
References
news, business, law, medicine, general
ACM, IEEE, commercial journals
ACM
chemical abstracts
CRC Chemistry
IEEE Xplore
Resources
fundamentals
Wiley Interscience Encyclopedia

All the University of California at Berkeley phone numbers are either 642-xxxx, 643-xxxx or 664-xxxx; to phone internally just use the last five digits. The dormitories and International House are also internal to the university telephone system.

Telephone costs for dorm residents and telephone statements online: Connect to Residence Telephone Services and get your individual authorization code (IAC).

Places on campus you may need to go to:
The Cashier's Office for paying CARS bills is at 140 University Hall.

Other useful Berkeley resources