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Whether you’re a transfer or re-entry student, or even an alum, it can sometimes feel a little alienating to wander around campus among the throng of 18- to 21-year-olds scampering about. In fact, they seem to be getting younger every year (and shorter, for that matter) — oh wait, no, those are
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Berkeley residents can now enjoy a refreshing scoop of ice cream on a toasty egg puff waffle with the recent addition of Gadani, an earthy and simplistically designed café that officially opened its doors Saturday in Downtown Berkeley.
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“All you do is mooch off of your parents, watch TV and post pictures of yourselves frolicking instead of working! Back in my day … ”
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In a social media-saturated environment, college has lost a sense of authenticity and emotional sincerity. Rather than being in-tune with genuine experiences and real identities, we are left with a college culture of fabrication. My least favorite fact about this is that I get sucked into it, too. We all
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She swished her red wine and dramatically looked off into the distance with a glint in her eye. Her mind’s projector was clearly flipping through the yellowed photo album on the walls of her skull in nostalgic revelry. I shuffled my eyes around the room, desperately looking for someone else
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Instead of excavating through the reserves of childhood photos and late-90s Polaroids (I think it was 1999 when Congress passed the Polaroids Are Cool Again Act) on my computer for a suitable Throwback Thursday Instagram, I thought I would go one step further. I went to see a movie. In IMAX.
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Home is where the heart is. It is, or at least it should be, where we can find the steadfast rhythm of our most important vital organ, where we find our most loyal pulse, especially when it quickens in anticipation or happiness.
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Imagine that it’s a Friday night. You know what that means: “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire,” Nestle Drumsticks and some Ibuprofen. A little medical marijuana for your, uh, restless foot syndrome. Maybe some friends.
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We are a lazy generation — or so, at least, have we been dubbed over and over again. We are “millennials”, born and raised to create an era of the entitled, the selfish and the apathetic.
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I’m no ghost expert. Nor do I imagine, based on the drawing of the ghost on the application icon, is Snapchat. But I would hazard to guess that ghosts are either invisible or, on the whole, fairly inconspicuous.
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