Finals week is coming, and with that comes oodles of stress. As Berkeley students, excellence is what we expect, and we’ll go to great lengths to achieve it. This is a great quality to have (and another reason why we’re the best), but sometimes we forget to take a necessary Read More…
Dead week: the calm before the storm of finals. It’s time to dive into the books and prepare to ace those finals. Or at least pass them. We all know that finals are a lot of pressure. They can make or break your grade, so in the next two weeks, Read More…
You have to have a pretty cool story to inspire a movie that wins multiple Academy Awards. And it turns out that two Cal alumni made the cut. Earlier this week, the Daily Californian reported about Cal alums Kenneth and Patricia Taylor, a couple that helped inspire the movie “Argo.” Kenneth Read More…
When it comes to bikes, our campus seems to be divided. An unspoken rivalry hangs in the air between the bikers and the walkers … the bikers just want the walkers out of the way and the walkers just don’t want to be run over. This week, our great university Read More…
Do you remember your first time at Cal? We’re assuming you walked through the craziness of Sproul, roamed around the beautifully aged buildings on campus, tried the “famous” food places like C.R.E.A.M. and Cheeseboard … or all of the above. It’s time to take a trip down memory lane to Read More…
Competitive video gaming takes hard work, cunning skills and dedication. It’s more than just something to do in your free time. No one understands this as much as sophomore Conan Liu, the president of the Cal eSports team. We are proud to see that Liu gets a pretty sweet reward for his efforts Read More…
Earlier this week, Cal chemistry professor Jay Keasling made medical history after the development of a new antimalarial drug production technique, aimed at saving the millions of people who contract the disease in developing countries all over the world. His 12 year’s worth of findings — including his breakthrough discovery about Read More…
It’s April Fools’ Day: a day to celebrate our inner pranksters. It’s a chance for those of us who take life too seriously to let go. After all, it’s the one day of the year that pranks are universally accepted, and we should all take advantage of it, especially in a Read More…
Overwhelmed by election hype? Have no fear — Nathan Adrian has come to the rescue! This week the Clog spied a video of Nathan Adrian encouraging students to vote in the upcoming ASUC election. No, he doesn’t shove any specific candidate down our throats. He just asks us, as a Read More…
Our admissions office goes to great lengths to introduce new faces to the Berkeley scene, but we at the Clog didn’t realize just how far away they really go! Lin Larson, an undergrad admissions officer, goes more than 8,000 miles, actually. Lin is planning to go back to Zimbabwe after a Read More…
