Students and parents gathered outside Unit 2 on Tuesday for UC Berkeley’s move-in day. (UC Berkeley photos by Keegan Houser)
Click to share on Google+ (Opens in new window) Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Click to print (Opens in new window) One day this spring, Earnest Wang, 18, called his mom and screamed so loud she thought he was in trouble. Turns out he was fine; he'd just been admitted to UC Berkeley. Today, Wang and his mother, Grace, and father, Jonathan, were on campus, moving Wang into his new room at Blackwell Hall, UC Berkeley's newest residence hall and his home away from home for most of the next eight months. "I'm really excited," Wang, an aspiring public health major from Irvine, said as he pushed a basket full of sheets, pillows, snacks, blankets and new clothes down a second-floor hallway. "I'm looking forward to unpacking, and just chilling for a little bit." Wang was one of 6,400 new and returning students arriving on campus Tuesday, lugging shower totes, notebooks and heaps of anticipation and anxiety into UC Berkeley's eight residence halls for the first chapter of their adult lives. This slideshow requires JavaScript. "It is a lot of nervousness," Alex Samano, 17, of Modesto, said as he stood with his parents outside of Unit 2 waiting to check out his room for the first time.
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