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The project, a musical journey through anxiety and disorder, is as unpredictable, melancholic and fleetingly joyful as the summer it finds itself released in.
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The word “play” itself can feel juvenile, but in actuality, play and the spirit of playfulness is important to our well-being as adults.
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There is a divinely subtle intimacy about public transportation. In the conversations I strain my ears to pick apart.
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In dreams the earth is always closing.
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As is typical of the overachiever burnout, I have a habit of abandoning activities, both big and small, if I am not immediately good at them.
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In the midst of midterms, project deadlines and a wealth of other personal responsibilities, nutrition can easily become an afterthought.
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And when you spend all that time thinking, and so much of the day reading, it’s natural to develop a laundry list of irrational fears.
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And so, “Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World” arrived in my life. This was the book that changed the way I see fiction, exceeding my expectations for the type of world building mere words could accomplish.
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The note must have been an act of self-preservation — the writer wanted to keep the ‘poison’ all to themself and thus scribbled a little white lie.
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While many of us at UC Berkeley spent last Saturday, April 13 donning blue and yellow, fearfully fleeing Oski and repeating “Go Bears!” an inordinate number of times for Cal Day, another lively celebration was taking place across the Bay. Saturday also marked the opening day of the 52nd annual
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