Check your school records
Bear Facts
Bear Facts (bearfacts.berkeley.edu) provides information 24 hours a day about your registration, including your current class schedule, your unofficial transcript, your financial aid status, and CARS billing information. You can also change your addresses (local, permanent, billing, and email) and order degree audit reports, enrollment verifications, and official transcripts.
Information in Bear Facts is always one day old; if you make a change to your class schedule or a payment to CARS, you will have to wait until the next day to see the change on Bear Facts.
- Go to a professor’s or GSI’s office hours
- Set up an email account and use it
- Join a student group
- Study in the library
- Attend a campus cultural or athletic event
- Plan for life after Cal
- Take a class outside your major
- Read a book by a UC Berkeley professor
- Work in an area related to your interests
- Live in group housing
- Exercise
- Volunteer
- Participate in an undergraduate research project
- Take charge of your own learning; ask questions in class and ask for help when you need it
- Spend a semester studying away from campus
- Be spontaneous