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Dead Week Spring 2014

How to turn online procrastination into productivity

So you’ve been in Main Stacks for a while, your brain feels fried and all you want to do is go home and lay in bed with your laptop. You begin to scroll aimlessly through Facebook. You might start to binge-watch Game of Thrones or maybe go on YouTube to
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4 events you should (not) go to during dead week

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As always, the best things in life happen during the worst times. Of course there would be plenty of fun activities to take part in during dead week. But as extremely studious UC Berkeley students, we shouldn’t attend these events … right? 1) Demetri Martin (May 8) Awkward and uncomfortable — in
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Video: A recap of everything you learned this semester in 30 seconds

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Dead Week: it’s that time of year when the shit hits the ceiling and you finally realize just how little attention you paid over the last few months. There’s nothing more terrifying than having to recall everything you learned in your classes. (P.S. that’s called finals, and you’re going to have to do
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Advice given by UC Berkeley professors and GSIs, as told by students

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Stressed out about finals? Exhausted from continuously staring at your notes, wondering if there is life beyond Main Stacks? Take a deep breath. The Clog has got your back with the best finals week advice from UC Berkeley professors and GSIs, as told by students. Contact Sue Ying at [email protected]

Video: Using drugs as a study tool

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“Berkeley is hard. Sometimes you need something extra to help you out,” said Willa Peng, a sophomore majoring in political economy. With exam season upon us, words like Adderall are commonly heard around campus. The meaning of the word “drug” during dead week and finals week is no longer limited to
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10 things every student does during dead week besides study

Now that we have no classes, it feels like we have all the time in the world. Dead week is technically Reading, Review and Recitation Week, but it’s rare that we actually stick to those specific guidelines. Instead, we choose to spend the first few days relaxing and the next few
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Places to eat after 2 a.m.

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It’s 2 a.m. during dead week, and you are hanging by your last remaining thread of sanity. After studying for five hours in a cramped cubicle in Moffitt Library with a dragon’s horde of coffee-stained notebooks and worksheets, you forgot to do one very important thing: eat. By now, your
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