Note: take this list with a grain of salt!

 

The Top Differences between the University of California at Berkeley (Cal)

and the United States Naval Academy (Navy)

 
  1. A “military demonstration” means quite different activities at each school!
  2. Birkenstocks are sold at the Navy student store, but not at the Cal student store.
  3. At Navy an Anchor is a big piece of metal. At Cal it is a beer.
  4. When class starts at Navy the students stand up. At Cal they wake up.
  5. Everyone at Navy gets a scholarship and a job.
  6. Navy sends students to Cal to get doctorates. Cal sends doctorates to Navy to teach.
  7. According to experts, Navy has the nicest grass (lawn) in the country. According to other experts, you can get the best grass at Cal.
  8. To get something done at Cal you need to find the person who knows the person who knows what to do. At Navy you need to find the instruction that references the instruction that describes what to do.
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  9. Students at both schools frequently march, however after marching at Navy you get liberty. After marching at Cal you post bail.
  10. More Peace Corps volunteers have come from Cal than any other school. More Marine Corps officers have come from Navy than any other school.

 

 

The Top Similarities between Cal and Navy

 

  1. The school colors are Blue and Gold.
  2. The students’ intelligence. (On a naval architecture final exam I gave at both schools the average score was exactly the same!)
  3. How hard it is to get in!
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  4. They are both next to "The Bay".
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  5. The graduates’ success.
  6. You go to Bancroft to catch up on sleep.
  7. Short hair is in.
  8. Large Sept. 11, 2001 Memorial Services
  9. Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz
  10. Commodore Henry Schade and many others!

 

Go Bears!       Go Navy!