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Saint Patrick’s Day has always held a special place in my heart — well, stomach. For as long as I can remember, March 17 has signified a hearty meal of corned beef and cabbage in the evening with the company of my family, most significantly, my grandmother. We’re not Irish in
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College is a time full of stressors — doing well in your classes, maintaining good relationships with your friends, figuring out what you want to do with your life — but without a doubt, the most stressful thing of all is trying to locate the nap pods that are hidden somewhere on
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Facebook’s new reactions have been out for about two weeks now, expanding the scope of emotions we can express via social media from the single, notorious like to a diverse array ranging from angry to the sometimes-confusing wow. (Is it sincere or sarcastic? Who knows?) Sometimes, however, seven basic senses
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You are about to leave your dorm room, apartment, frat house or mildly comfortable trash heap for the day, but for some reason the weather app on your phone is not working and you are unsure what Oski, in all his infinite power, has willed the weather to be this
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As everyone knows, leap day exists as a portal into a dimension where time moves four times as slowly. Therefore, you won’t experience any consequences for things you do today until the next leap year on February 29, 2020, when the portal opens up again. Why not take advantage of
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Most everyone has heard of Neko Atsume, the Japanese app that allows you to collect virtual cats by leaving out food and goodies for them to enjoy while you’re away. Fewer people, however, have heard of Squeako Atsume, UC Berkeley’s very own real-life equivalent to the popular game. By leaving
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UC Berkeley is known for many things — Nobel prize winners, giant towers and the creepiest mascot this side of the Bay to name a few. And now, thanks to the release of its first studio album, The Life of Oski, it can also be known as the only campus that,
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Apartment hunting season has officially begun, and as the procrastinator that you are, you’ve waited until all the good places are already taken to start searching for next year’s home. Now the only places left are those that are three miles away from campus, lack running water or are infested
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As we get farther into admissions season, it’s going to be more and more common for us to see prospective students and their parents traversing campus with a solitary, blue and gold striped tour guide at the head of the pack. These bi-colored paragons of leadership must be sick and tired
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The common graduate student instructor, Latin name Eruditorem discipulus, is a moderately large, library-dwelling breed endemic to the campus and surrounding areas of UC Berkeley. Despite its relatively frequent appearance in classrooms and other areas associated with learning and knowledge, the graduate student instructor, or GSI, is still a favorite
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