Every test has a final question. Every book has a last page. Every academic year closes, and every student ends their term. For some, graduation is that light at the end of the tunnel, the finality of one’s time as a UC Berkeley student.
And what a tunnel it’s been. From hazardous air quality ratings to PG&E-mandated power shut-offs to the pandemic that has virtually changed our final finals week, many of us have seen our paths affected, and we have persevered through the unknown. We grew up from Cal Day visitors to campus tour guides, from undeclared majors to student instructors, from fearful cubs to Golden Bears.
It’s time to celebrate the end of our journey — with our family, over the phone with our friends and together at our makeup commencement ceremony. It’s time to step out of the tunnel and into the light.
Maybe it was meant to be
By Revati Thatte, Senior Staff
It took eight weeks of nothing but pondering for me to realize that none of what I’ve learned in college begins or ends with turning a tassel.
The good, the bad, the great
By Summer Kailani, Staff
Years from now, we won’t think back to the class we did well in, or that test we pulled three all-nighters to ace.
In the blink of an eye
By Amber Tang, Senior Staff
As an underclassman, it was easy to brush off the idea of graduating as a distant concept, surely not yet applicable to me.
A scab off my face
By Malini Ramaiyer, Senior Staff
To experience a frenzy is to attend college at UC Berkeley. The combination of my experiences have been whacky in one word, exhilarating in another.
It’s not about the job
By Jack Whaley, Senior Staff
Seeing the inside of California Memorial Stadium for the first time when I went to interview Nancy McDaniel was something else.
I hate you, I love you
By HoYin Mo, Staff
In addition to my job at Crossroads, I decided to work at The Daily Californian after realizing the importance of journalism in Hong Kong.
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