Cal Day

As I am writing this, it has been almost a year since I first stepped foot onto the UC Berkeley campus during Cal Day. Here’s what I would want high school senior me — who’s nervous yet excited about starting college — to know.

I often think about how this was supposed to be our time together now that I was older. We won’t ever get to have these moments, but throughout this year, I sought to find ways I could replicate what would make him proud.

Anthropology students have protested the decision to close three of UC Berkeley’s libraries and reallocate their materials since February, when the “Long-term Space Plan” was proposed.

Picture! Take a picture / We’ll forget, but we can’t forget / We fight for the memory but lose every moment.

Clubs and committees ranging from the fields of design, engineering, Greek life, film and more will be tabling and campaigning for their organizations all day.

Take advantage of everything the UC Berkeley campus has to offer this semester and complete this bucket list along with us.

In capturing the charm of our campus with each snapshot, we have sought to remind ourselves of what originally drew us to this city, to this school.

As a rising senior and former GBO leader, here are three tips I’d give to any incoming freshman (including my former self)!

The Good Bear prepares their outfit for and participates in all of campus’s wonderful traditions by following this curated guide.

In less than two weeks, I begin the end of my undergraduate career: the end of an era. The end of my life as a student, the precipice before I have to figure it all out somehow.