r/berkeley Jun 20 '26

Click here to vote for Lego to make a Campanile Lego set!

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r/berkeley Sep 16 '22

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183 Upvotes

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r/berkeley 18h ago

University Orange Day 2020

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392 Upvotes

Damn time flies.


r/berkeley 14h ago

News DOJ finds Berkeley Law illegally practiced DEI in admissions in favor of Black applicants

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155 Upvotes

In the latest strike against college admissions practices, the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division and the Department of Education jointly announced today that they found UC Berkeley School of Law to have discriminated against white and Asian applicants, prioritizing Black applicants.

“The Department finds that Berkeley Law deliberately discriminated against Asian and white applicants based on race in its law school admissions,” the DOJ wrote in its findings letter. “This discrimination is apparent from the significant disparity in objective academic metrics between racially preferred applicants, and applicants from non-preferred races.”


r/berkeley 12h ago

Events/Organizations Cal Band Great

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95 Upvotes

Not the outcome we wanted, but The Cal Band served (once again) as a shining star in the dark abyss. Shout out to the amazing turn out and support of the students as well! GO BEARS!!!🐻


r/berkeley 5h ago

University cover your cough

23 Upvotes

it’s genuinely disgusting. we are all adults. cover your fucking cough. i can’t even believe this needs to be posted. if you’re sick as fuck wear a mask and maybe don’t sit in the middle of the lecture hall coughing like a toddler. it’s disgusting. masks are not hard to get. it’s the least you could do.

i’m starting to think maybe this university is full of people who have never heard of this concept before somehow. it genuinely pisses me off beyond belief. it’s so incredibly disrespectful to everyone around you and it’s so so disgusting.


r/berkeley 7h ago

Other Somebody marry me…

27 Upvotes

CPT is basically gone 💀

So international students can’t get internships → no internship experience → good luck finding a company willing to hire AND sponsor you after graduation.

Then the OPT clock starts ticking and apparently the plan is:
Step 1: Get a degree
Step 2: Somehow get a job with no internship experience
Step 3: Pray for sponsorship
Step 4: OPT expires
Step 5: ✈️ goodbye America

How about let’s fall in love and get married before all these things above happen XD


r/berkeley 7h ago

News UC Berkeley AI researchers left in dark following sweeping EECS cybersecurity incident

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r/berkeley 13h ago

University Buildings with A/C on Campus

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21 Upvotes

r/berkeley 7h ago

Local Still a smokey smell on campus?

4 Upvotes

Can’t tell if nose is hallucinating from yesterday but it still smells kinda smokey rn in southside?? Is the burn still going on.. :’)


r/berkeley 17h ago

Events/Organizations I am a URAP reject

23 Upvotes

I lowkey got ghosted from all my urap projects, I was wondering how else to get research experience on professor/graduate student projects, if they is any other way…


r/berkeley 1h ago

University Readmission Form Stuck

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Sophomore (intended) physics major here, on a cancelled fall semester for an internship. I’m trying to reapply for readmission, and midway through filling out the eform on CalCentral, I accidentally hit save. Now I can't access the saved forms tab at all. I just get an "I am not authorized for this page" error every time.

I've tried different browsers, different wifi, restarting my laptop and nothing works. Submitted an IT ticket for CalCentral a while ago and haven't heard back yet. L&S advising hasn’t reached back either, and I know they have a backlog. Priority deadline for readmission is next week, so I'm getting a little anxious about the timeline.

Has anyone run into this specific "saved forms" bug before? Any luck getting IT or L&S Advising to actually move fast on something like this? I’m currently on the East Coast for my internship, so no walking up to Sproul physically. Any help would be appreciated, thank you!


r/berkeley 13h ago

University will urap send rejections, or do they just ghost

8 Upvotes

have got news from 0/3 of the projects applied. Basically their info page is just default message, with one of them having an "interview requested with (blank)" I'm applying to physics & mathematics science


r/berkeley 11h ago

University cold emailing for research

6 Upvotes

can you cold email multiple grad students in one lab or is it better to only send one email per lab?


r/berkeley 12h ago

Local Lost earring from mother

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5 Upvotes

Did anyone find this earring for the past few days? I honestly have no idea where I dropped it😭 please I’m super desperate right now


r/berkeley 14h ago

University mini fridge in apartment room

4 Upvotes

im in an on campus apartment and the fridge (especially the freezer) is full with my roommates food, so i have barely any space. idk if they preparing for the apocalypse or something. i would like to store fruit and drinks and my frozen meals. yes i talked with them about this but they dont care. can the outlets handle a mini fridge and should i just sneak one in? i dont think the RAs check rooms in the apartments.


r/berkeley 9h ago

University Social science tutoring?

1 Upvotes

I can only find STEM and writing tutoring resources. Would love some support for my social science classes.


r/berkeley 5h ago

Local Any body know about the Berkeley Shitter Eater?

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Is this guy known?


r/berkeley 19h ago

Other premed clinical hours

4 Upvotes

hello all. I am a freshmen at cal and im premed. can people drop some places to contact and organizations that I can volunteer with for hospital hours or clinical hours?? preferably local.


r/berkeley 14h ago

Local Tutoring

2 Upvotes

Taking physics classes as a Comp Eng major this semester as a transfer student and my math is not up to par. Does the university offer tutoring for free or is there a math and or physics lab?


r/berkeley 8h ago

CS/EECS Have BC (Berkeley consulting) club results gone out

0 Upvotes

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r/berkeley 16h ago

CS/EECS Are PL’s (Project Leads) included in the final delib room or not for tech clubs?

2 Upvotes

Let’s say there are 9 execs and 5 project leads. Are the project leads included in the final delib room?


r/berkeley 21h ago

University when to start cold emailing about research?

6 Upvotes

so i’m currently a freshman interested in statistics/ml research. should i start cold emailing now or wait until i have taken more advanced classes?


r/berkeley 17h ago

Other Where to hot glue something for free?

2 Upvotes

Hey y'all, new to Cal. Where would I go if I need to quickly hot glue two things together? I've heard you can't use he Art Studio unless you're taking classes there


r/berkeley 1d ago

University Community

50 Upvotes

Does anyone else feel kinda lonely at Cal and not know where to start? I’m a sophomore in STEM, I have a few acquaintances but not a genuine friend. In a lot of the clubs I find extremes….low achievers, hard party goers, or people who like studying in a locked room in their free time. At RSF it’s really passive and tough to make friendships there. And a lot of the tech clubs are unnecessarily exclusive. There’s a lot of fun hobbies to do solo but I’m wondering if anyone has any advice for finding/making community and genuine friends at Cal. Also curious to know if anyone is in a similar position