commencement

The campus spring 2021 commencement ceremony May 15 and department graduations will be held virtually due to public health concerns.

In a way, I’m stuck, afraid of all the bittersweet decisions I could possibly make — decisions that can sour with regret as fast as the spread of a virus.

Because in these times, we learn hard lessons: lessons about the costs of failed leadership and the faults in our government, lessons about the vulnerabilities of our communities and of our basic infrastructure, lessons about the fragility of our own bodies.

Chancellor Carol Christ announced in an email March 23 that the spring 2020 UC Berkeley all-campus commencement has been postponed due to the spread of COVID-19.

For all the senior Bears out there, it might be hard to wrap your head around the fact that your time at the No. 1 public university in the world is coming to an end.

Here at the Clog, we've wondered who else we'd like to hear from at future commencement ceremonies, so we've compiled our own ultimate wishlist of these seven ultimate individuals to impart their wisdom on UC Berkeley's graduates

Our college friends are scattered and we are no longer bound together by school. Now, we have to give more energy and time in keeping up friendships.

Dozens of families were seen falling asleep at the UC Berkeley spring 2018 general commencement, with some on the verge of collapsing.

Maybe what we need is to take a step back to remember what it was like when we first arrived at Berkeley and see the city through the eyes of our friends and family.