A guide to residence halls from a freshman who’s never set foot on campus

To be honest, though, as a freshman who has yet to step foot on campus, I don’t really know anything about UC Berkeley’s residence halls.
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To be honest, though, as a freshman who has yet to step foot on campus, I don’t really know anything about UC Berkeley’s residence halls.
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Beginning Thursday, UC Berkeley students living in the residence halls can walk to Underhill Parking Garage for their mandatory twice a week COVID-19 surveillance testing.
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Students living in residence halls on campus are being consolidated into fewer buildings to better utilize resources in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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In an effort to mitigate the spread of COVID-19, UC Berkeley is looking to consolidate students within campus housing while promoting social distancing and community.
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If you’ve lived in the dorms — specifically in Units 1, 2 or 3 — you’ve probably experienced your elevator breaking down at some point.
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To better understand elevator culture, I need to be in one for more than just a few minutes. So, that’s why I decided to spend an entire day in an elevator.
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We all know that each of the residence halls have extremely distinct personalities, and we can’t help but relate the hall to the people living in them.
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The residence halls, as you will soon discover, are simmering cesspools of teens living on top of one another, complete with clogged bathrooms, unwashed sheets and the lingering smell of weed. Such an environment makes for prime seduction — no joke, I found my first two serious boyfriends in campus housing. When you are crammed in with a bunch of people your age, there will always be that smoking hot person you eventually pursue.
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Oh, Blackwell, you are the life we wish we had. You are the wind beneath our wings. You are the building we walk by just to get a peep inside. Most importantly, though, you’re an inefficient use of resources.
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On Charter Day, March 23, 1868, Berkeley didn’t offer student housing since California state codes prohibited the existence of dormitories on college campuses
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