This week on the podcast we go in-depth with Joseph Sell, an assistant director in the Financial Aid & Scholarships Office, about financial aid. We know how important understanding financial aid is for all students at UC Berkeley and we want you to have the most up-to-date information, what to look for and make all the elements understandable. For a transcript, please visit the episode page on the ESS podcast hub.

This week on the podcast, we explore what it is like to be a new transfer student in Berkeley Engineering. Our guest Vanshikha Sinha, who graduated in May and was an ESS peer adviser, talked with us about registration tips. She gives us a personal look at choosing courses, creating a four-year plan and what resources she consistently turned to.

For a transcript, please visit the episode page on the ESS podcast hub.

This week on The (Not So) Secret Guide to Being a Berkeley Engineer podcast we we are going to talk about a topic that advisers have been fielding since admissions were released - changing majors! Our guests from ESS, Sharon Mueller, the director of advising and policy and Kendra Van Nyhuis, an academic adviser and here to tell us more about who can change majors, what the process entails and who you need to talk to first. For a transcript, please visit the episode page on the ESS podcast hub.

This week on the podcast we explore what it is like to be a new transfer student in Berkeley Engineering. Our guests Joy Larson and Edrees Saied are retuning transfer students and share their experiences with scheduling, meeting people, resources and what they did to acclimate from community college. For a transcript, please visit the episode page on the ESS podcast hub.

This week our guests on the The (Not So) Secret Guide to Being a Berkeley Engineer are returning students Andrew Ji and Christopher Zavala. They both talk about how they chose their first semester courses, how they created a new network of friends and what resources they found to be the most helpful. For a transcript, please visit the episode page on the ESS podcast hub.