University of California at Berkeley - The Blue and Gold Yearbook

“LAYING ^ the GROUNDWORK With the foundation set, the seed of a vision great or small implanted, wonders can happen, making dreams take flight. Now go hears! Within every child is a bold, shining vision to go somewhere, to be somebody, to do something. Within every college stu- dent, a young voice, seasoned by years of academic discipline, yearns to speak out, " I ' ve gone to some place, I ' ve become some- body, and now I ' m going to do it. " Four years at Cal may just have bred the perfect laboratory conditions for the great- est experiment of all— the experiment of LIFE in the real world in a not so real college town-Berkeley, CA, U.S.A. Each of us, in our own ways, has come out with results from four or more grueling years of lessons at Cal. Learning, perhaps, not to trust long lines but to trust your instinct that taking Legal Studies 145 passed /not passed was the right thing to do. Learning that what you hear on Tele- Bears is not necessarily what you get. Maybe it ' s learning not to trust the Regents or even your own roommate. No matter how times have changed from the moment you stepped on campus as a bright-eyed freshman to a more well- informed free spirit years down the road, every facet of campus life has formedtho kaleidescopic memories unique onl\ ' from Cal— whether it ' s mustering enough cour- age to chat with the Hateman, stopping to listen to a self-proclaimed orator on the steps of Sproul, or simply studying the art of restful sleeping under the laz\ ' sun. All told, U.C. Berkeley is the ultimate building block upon which we accumulate the experience, the expertise, and possibh ' the answers needed for the next big step and the step after that. „ , , . ,^ —Dehbw Yuan Building the Foundation ”