On self-respect: The rough, the lovely

I’m a third-year student here at UC Berkeley. My college years have not gone as I thought they would.
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I’m a third-year student here at UC Berkeley. My college years have not gone as I thought they would.
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I will spend the rest of the year trying and failing to be Mary Oliver.
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You can see why Joan Didion is so well known for her nonfiction. She takes a political event and transforms it, dresses it up, takes it out to lunch and then deconstructs it.
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I have been considering the microphysics of apocalypses. Not blazing lights and the pale horse of Judgement Day, but smaller devastations.
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The summer gave me a glimpse of what a balanced, healthy mental life can look like, and I do not want to forget its taste.
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Starring veteran theater actress Stacy Ross and featuring a script written by Didion herself, the interpretation solidly personifies Didion’s prose.
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If you’re in Berkeley this summer, it’s time to take advantage of everything the Bay Area has to offer — seize the opportunity to make some memories.
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DEADLINE EXTENDED: We want to know about the beginnings and the ends. Tell us what you’ve learned, what you’ve loved and why — or if — you’re ready to say goodbye to all that.
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Fashion as a mode of self-expression has always been a powerful dynamic, and one that has deep historical roots at UC Berkeley.
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