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Students are speaking out about the allegedly increasing difficulty of CS 70, the campus discrete mathematics and probability theory course, after a recent midterm described on Reddit as “unbelievable” and “brutal.” 

About 60 academic workers, students, faculty, staff and Union Auto Workers, or UAW, 2865 leaders convened at Li Ka Shing Center on Wednesday to discuss the impacts and potential redress of cases of staff overwork in EECS and data science courses in a town hall meeting. 

Amid the ongoing academic workers’ strike throughout the UC system, those in the UC Berkeley departments of electrical engineering and computer science, or EECS, data science and statistics have noted that cases of overtime work and long office hours are common problems being faced by undergraduate and graduate student instructors.

For the second year in a row, campus student organization Blockeley has taken up the torch of helping UC Berkeley students experience a graduation ceremony through the video game Minecraft.

I recognize English to be my first language, but I’m not a native English speaker. Because of that, I've discovered how important English is to my life.

Campus now offers introductory courses to a good percentage of the student body — they simply need to prepare for it and ensure that it remains an inclusive space.

Recently, multiple students on campus have offered to pay their classmates to drop out of classes they are waitlisted for, raising concerns about over-enrollment and advising.

A UC Berkeley undergraduate student's tweet criticizing electrical engineering and computer sciences, or EECS, professor Anant Sahai recently gained traction among the campus community, raising questions regarding the pressure and high expectations computer science students face.

Actions may speak louder than words, but some words speak louder than others. Stand out from your peers by spicing up your speech with these archaic words, briefly defined and used in UC Berkeley-related example sentences.

According to the campus, the park is “a haven for crime and disruption,” but all I saw was a peaceful picnic, couples enjoying a day out in the sun, people napping and a few guys smoking weed.