My professor let me pick my own grade, and I might fail myself
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“Ungrading” attempts to alleviate the stress and anxiety of traditional grading and test-taking by allowing students to determine their own grades.
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Feeling lost? Look within, your childhood self knows you best
If your ears are strained from trying to distinguish your life’s calling amid all the noise, maybe it would be best to start by listening to your childhood self.
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Mental Health Awareness Month: Life is better beyond your stigma
To me, taking antidepressants felt like cheating. It felt like taking the easy way out. I wanted to make myself happy through my own willpower.
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Figuring it out, 1 step at a time
I’ve been told approximately 1 million times: College is for exploration.
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Clog Report: UC Berkeley student plans to stay home fall semester, turns Club Penguin into full-time job
Instead of the campus experience, rising campus sophomore Pen Gwinn is turning to Club Penguin to make connections to the workforce and prove to her parents that she can make it in the real world.
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Bullet journaling for beginners: Boost your productivity, creativity
If you’re looking to be more organized and productive while letting your creativity fly, check out bullet journaling! Here are some ways you can take advantage of the untethered nature of bullet journaling.
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Notes from a friendlier classroom
Something to write home about
Most of all, I walk into my final year at a university that has given me so much with the knowledge that sometimes, lessons aren’t in textbooks or free solutions to problem sets on Chegg.
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Berkeley’s a no-brainer (Right?)
When I was 7, I wanted to be an author, a detective, a horse trainer — or at least live on a ranch — or any combination of the aforementioned.
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Reflections from my time as a Golden Bear
There is an unspoken tension between the number-crunchers and networkers, and the arts and humanities majors in that the former look at the latter with disparaging disrespect.
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Embracing the difficulties of being a first-generation college student
The term “first-generation college student” was both daunting and honorable for me.
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