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I’m sorry I can’t be there today.

Several public commenters engaged in antisemitic and racist hate speech on Zoom during the Berkeley City Council meeting Sept. 26.

As I sit down to write this, though, none of those drafts feel right. There’s so much to say yet also nothing at all. How do you encapsulate four years of your life in 850 cohesive words?

I am a very different person from freshman me. I am a natural continuation of freshman me. I am because of you.

Commitment to me has always meant offering up all of my energy and emotion and everything to fulfill expectations and make everyone as happy as possible. Nowhere was there space for my own happiness, my own interests, my own life.

Whether as a method of providing government feedback or a vessel for reaching the public, many Berkeley City Council commenters are in agreement: public comment in council meetings can be a valuable tool for the city’s citizens.

Students use a combination of resources provided by UC Berkeley and their own connections and proactivity in order to obtain summer internships.

When time warped in on itself and I stepped into another dimension, I didn’t anticipate the whiplash that demanded to be felt.

A UC Berkeley program focusing on Latine students in environmental fields is expanding to UC Riverside with a $342,000 grant from the UC-Hispanic Serving Institutions Doctoral Diversity Initiative.

Why do we see Instagram posts as so far removed from the choreographed skits my cousins and I performed on Thanksgiving?