CS 70

Students should not feel intensely stressed over an exam or course, worried sick about the next impossible question that arrives at their doorsteps.

Students are speaking out about the allegedly increasing difficulty of CS 70, the campus discrete mathematics and probability theory course, after a recent midterm described on Reddit as “unbelievable” and “brutal.” 

Amid the ongoing academic workers’ strike throughout the UC system, those in the UC Berkeley departments of electrical engineering and computer science, or EECS, data science and statistics have noted that cases of overtime work and long office hours are common problems being faced by undergraduate and graduate student instructors.

UC Berkeley's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences announced that future enrollment for Computer Science 70 would not be restricted by major.

With UC Berkeley holding all of its classes for the fall 2020 and spring 2021 semesters online, engineering, data science and computer science instructors have had to adapt their teaching styles to meet the demands of remote learning.

A UC Berkeley undergraduate student's tweet criticizing electrical engineering and computer sciences, or EECS, professor Anant Sahai recently gained traction among the campus community, raising questions regarding the pressure and high expectations computer science students face.

“Oh, I'm so sorry – did you not get into your first choice major,” says almost everyone when you tell them your major. "No, pal".