North Reading Room

Our campus has seen the construction of some of California’s most iconic and exemplary buildings — many of which still stand today.

A series of gunshot-esque sounds, followed by shrill screams. As the noises echoed off of the library’s high ceilings, students at Doe Library looked up from their studying and glanced around anxiously. 

Students working at Doe Library heard what sounded like gunshots around 6:45 p.m. Friday, which were later believed to be the sounds of popping balloons. 

Finding your favorite study space can be a challenge, especially during finals season when everyone else is doing the same. Studying at home and inviting friends over may be comfortable and convenient, but the environment can get distracting more often than not.

So take a breath, put in your earphones and listen to our “Welcome Freshmen” playlist for background music as you explore Berkeley for the first time.

With so many popular libraries and luncheries to choose from, we could all use a magic eight ball to help us choose our study spots.

We go to libraries to get work done (well, at least to attempt to get work done). Yet whenever we go to one, there always seems to be at least one person who doesn’t follow the unspoken library code of conduct. These sacred rules should never be broken, and because certain people clearly don’t understand them, we at the Clog would like to put them in writing.

Every student is familiar with RRR week and looks forwards to it, for with the onset of RRR week comes the most hyped social event of the semester: library hopping, the nerd’s equivalent to the bar crawl.