Brace yourselves — the Trees are coming. The 121st Big Game will bring hoards of Stanfordites into town, dawning their atrocious red and cheering for their clearly inferior school. While our blue blood may boil watching the enemies enter Bear territory, there’s one reason why we’re grateful for their presence — they remind us that, by choosing to attend UC Berkeley, we’ve made life choices far superior to theirs. With the Big Game renewing our inner California spirit, the Clog has been reflecting on all the things that we would rather do than attend that lesser school across the Bay.
- Sit on Oski’s lap for the entire Big Game
- Flyer on Sproul Plaza every day for a year
- Have back-to-back classes in Li Ka Shing and Haas
- Eat every meal at Crossroads
- Yell “Hell Yeah” each time we cross the intersection of Telegraph Avenue and Durant Avenue
- Get lost in Dwinelle Hall
- Take an 8 a.m. class with iClickers
- Use Airbears 2 Wifi to download movies
- Buy every single textbook new from the Cal Student Store
- Have every single class in Evans Hall
- Trip on a KiwiBot at least once a week
- Take a nap on the seal
- Live on Northside
- Fight off squirrels trying to steal food at FSM
- Miss our Phase I appointment times
- Arrive at the RSF right when all of the machines are taken
- Take CS 61A, Chem 3A, Physics 7B and Rhetoric R1B at the same time
- Wait two hours to ask a question at office hours
- Set a picture of former chancellor Nicholas Dirks as our phone screensaver
- Only listen to “Fight for California” on repeat at parties
- Live in a Unit 3 triple
- Go to the No. 1 public university in the world
While our lives here at UC Berkeley are far from flawless, we would take our school and all of its amazing quirks over $tanfurd any time, any day. Go Bears!
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