A big one to consider will be how much financial aid Berkeley gives you , especially in the form of grants . If it ' s going to be a financial stretch that may or may not be worth the Berkeley name ? Hard to say . Depends on your majors and career goals . Being in the Bay Area with such close access to a lot of industries may be a springboard you find to be worth it . Or it may not . Hard to say without knowing more . <| sep |> To add to udmelvin ' s good idea if you will have more funds later but not enough now to bury , you could temporarily run it overhead with a steel cable as stain relief and a couple of 2 x 4 s as poles . Heck , you could even lay it on the ground as long as you remember it ' s there when you mow Signed , someone who had temporary power and network running to a barn with extension cords laying next to the driveway for . Two years .