Santa Clarita Diet Accomplishing good: A personal essaydailycal.org - Brianna Brann The neatly organized folder sat between us, a solemn sign of the imminent discharge of Patient 210B. As a nurse’s assistant for almost two years back …
Design From the Design Desk | Artwork by Olivia Staserdailycal.org - Olivia Staser Here at The Daily Californian, the design department is responsible for laying out the physical newspaper you pick up every day, as well as for …
Poetry lost: A poemdailycal.org - Madelyn Peterson imagine a long ride just after it rains.singular drops race down the window,you race home. the moon: your silent companion.when you were young, you …
Poetry Star Girl: A poemdailycal.org - Sean Tseng Star girl stringsher table with lights,tapes wire to wall, spells her name in neon blue.The roof is above herinstead of the sky,but stars glitter, …
Poetry Teeth of the young lions: A poemdailycal.org - Alex Jiménez but first let’s set the scene: when I was a child I always had this vision of us as glass. someone tapped too hard one day and we shatteredinto …
Festivals Faith and food: 30th annual King Tut Festival emphasizes Egyptianness of Coptic Identitydailycal.org - Elizabeth Neoman The smell of freshly made basbousa filled the air as Umm Kulthum’s music boomed over hundreds of people chatting in Arabic and English. At Saint …
United States Eastwind Books: A unique space empowering Berkeley’s Asian American literary communitydailycal.org - Anna Ho Nestled between restaurants and tea houses along a stretch of University Avenue, Eastwind Books of Berkeley can be easy to miss amid the flow of …
Homelessness James and the mystery of homeless discriminationdailycal.org - Yao Huang Most of the time when we think about homeless people, we just assume that businesses don’t like them because they don’t have the money to pay for …
Cake One more bite: A short storydailycal.org - Sarena Kuhn He was about three bites into the cake when it occurred to him that perhaps it had really and truly been poisoned. As a matter of fact, if he thought …
Design From the Design Desk | Artwork by Olivia Staserdailycal.org - Olivia Staser Here at The Daily Californian, the design department is responsible for both laying out the physical newspaper you pick up every day as well as for …
U.S. Congress A conversation with a US senator: Barbara Boxer on Congress in a changing Americadailycal.org - Danielle Miller Editor’s Note: This interview has been edited for length and clarity. B rooklyn-born, California sworn.For more than three decades — 10 years in the …
Refugees ‘But we are still alive’: On refugee depictions in ‘Transit’ and ‘Exit West’dailycal.org - Kris Shin The consul banged the table and said,“If you’ve got no passport you’re officially dead”But we are still alive, my dear, but we are still alive Went to …
China Lying in between: What the movie ‘The Farewell’ tells us about our own multicultural familiesdailycal.org - Raina Yang As a Chinese international student who has lived in the United States for the past six years, I find that the gap between my family and me has grown …
Poetry Looking for the Beats and finding slam poetrydailycal.org - Hannah Frances Johansson It started with Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s 100th birthday and book release last March. I arrived at City Lights bookstore half an hour early for the …
Joan Didion The summer of magical thinking: A personal essaydailycal.org - Edrick Sabalburo I don’t know why, but I have always believed in the promise of summer. Every year when May rolls around, I tell myself that the time is coming to …
Essays Missing out (and the crippling fear of it): A personal essaydailycal.org - Emmanuel Ronquillo When the summer sun peeks through the blinds, it illuminates the room with a different light than the usual somber awakening before classes. Just as …
The melancholy of a 21-year-old pseudo-adult: A personal essaydailycal.org - Ru-Ping Chen So, before you embark upon this mess that comprises my thoughts, I thought you should know that I’ve already made many attempts to write a coherent …
The Golden Hour: A personal essay to say goodbyedailycal.org - Alec Newcomb UC Berkeley is really a campus in and of its own time. Who doesn’t remember being a freshman stunned by their professors’ supposed 10-minute …
Being Berkeley: A personal essaydailycal.org - Katrina Fadrilan Can you be in love with a place? Because that’s how I feel about Berkeley — utterly in love. And I don’t hesitate to say “in love” because how I feel …
Those damn anxious butterflies: A personal essaydailycal.org - Nelly Lin We as a collective society have this undeniable fear of mortality. Something about the uncertainty of death and ceasing to exist disturbs our psyche …
Nineteen X Old: A personal essaydailycal.org - Jericho Rajninger There exists no liberty purer than taking a nap at 1:30 p.m. on a Tuesday in April and having nobody ask, “Are you feeling OK?” or “Shouldn’t you be …
Exposing the sophomore slump: Dealing with the pressures of year 2 at UC Berkeleydailycal.org - Kate Winterbauer Before starting college, I had no idea what the “sophomore slump” was. I had heard the warnings about the freshman 15 and senioritis, but this was a …
Breaking the eggs: Learning to unlove Woody Allendailycal.org - Andreas Gjosaether Every so often, I find myself having the same discussion about separating art from the artist. I find it generally unfulfilling, but that doesn’t …
What the movies tell you about freshman year (and what they don’t): A personal essaydailycal.org - Pamela Hasbun Lights, camera, action! Picture this: a preliminary shot of Sather Gate, busy with students running to class. A couple of leaves fall to the ground, …
Committing to UC Berkeley (for real this time): A personal essaydailycal.org - Ashley Soliman I sit at my desk fidgeting with the strings of my sweatshirt, becoming aware of the feeling of its hug upon my body. Multiple wears and washes are …
Notes to self — on coming home: A poemdailycal.org - Sean Tseng Closuredoes not come when you leave. Not when your friendswave to you one last time,sending you offin that six-passenger cab. Not when you get …
Making room: College students experience the consequences of clutter and the impact of interior designdailycal.org - Molly Nolan When setting foot in the average college apartment, many instinctively brace themselves. The college living space, frequently neglected and left in …
Not just CS: Professor Ani Adhikari talks distinction of data science major at UC Berkeleydailycal.org - Arth Vidyarthi Four years ago, about 110 UC Berkeley students enrolled in the first edition of a class called Computer Science 94. Today that class is better known …
‘A multigenerational experience:’ Cal Alumni Day of Service 2019 fosters community, cleans Berkeley Marinadailycal.org - Kristen Hull S ix condoms, 10 syringes and needles, 32 shotgun shells, 945 Styrofoam pieces and 5,445 plastic pieces were recently picked up a few miles from …
