Every conversation I’ve had in the last month goes something like this: “Are you excited to graduate?” Yes and no, I reply, with the bittersweet nostalgia of any student who must say goodbye to Berkeley. “What will you do afterward?” I’ll be interning at a newspaper in Southern California, for Read More…
As one former vice chancellor puts it, when people from other countries ask about how UC Berkeley is, they have two specific questions in mind: Is Top Dog still there, and is Cal as bureaucratic as ever? The answer to both these questions is, as always, yes. Top Dog locations Read More…
To all you newly admitted students and proud friends and family members, welcome. UC Berkeley is your university. Here, the greatest heights of academia are raised even higher by the marvels of human ingenuity that every incoming class of freshmen and transfer students bring with them. While UC Berkeley is Read More…
Locals and Bay Area eaters are all well aware that Berkeley is a foodie mecca, but one website is taking its praise for the city one step further — best foodie city on the West Coast. Read More…
Hallmarks of romance could be found all over Berkeley yesterday. Plenty of people walked to and from class carrying flowers, stuffed animals and candy, but one person took it upon himself to make a pizza-gram for his sweetheart. Daily Cal ad sales staff member Lila was at La Val’s with Read More…
This blog is for you, Berkeley. We’ll feature the very best food that this city and the Bay Area has to offer as well as help you eat just as well while at home. We’ll take you into the kitchens of some of your favorite restaurants and into our own modest apartments. We’ll tell you what makes us hungry, and we hope you’ll do the same. Read More…
Finals and stress are synonymous at UC Berkeley. Academic standards at the campus — ranked first among public universities by U.S. News & World Report — are predictably high, and the consequent pressure comes to a head during finals week. Read More…
In any given public place, it’s not uncommon to find children using smartphones or tablet computers. The world has become a place where anyone can compute anywhere at any time, but it wasn’t always that way. Before UC Berkeley electrical engineering and computer science lecturer Brian Harvey began teaching on Read More…
With a massive amount of data online, computer programmers have recently taken to looking for ways to manage it all. Marti Hearst, a professor in the UC Berkeley School of Information, has been at the forefront of research on working with “Big Data” to make it searchable and accessible. Her Read More…
As a native Angeleno, transitioning to the Bay Area has had its ups and downs. People often ask me what I miss most about home, and while my family is always my first answer, my second is a puzzling one for them: the Los Angeles Kings. My father instilled in Read More…
