University of California Berkeley - Blue and Gold Yearbook (Berkeley, CA)

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Hot stuff. Posters that show loves, interests, or just asthetically pleasing images are plastered in almost every dorm room. Posters are also great for expressing one ' s own personality. Covering up the bare walls in the dorms was a main priority when getting settled into a new room. Photo by Jason Chan On move-in day, my friend. Jammer, who is 6 ' 4 ' , 300 pounds, pre- tended to be me. He was rude and pushed my roommate around to freal him out. We went to Taco Bell and he ate all of my roommate ' s food and he took some of my roommate ' s clothes and put them in my closet and offered no explana- tion. This carried on all day, until finally we told him. Needless to say, my roommate was relieved! Fresh- man Ayman Saad ::m S life

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SludtMil LiiV Page S A( iiilciiiii Uk Page no ( liih Lile Paue S2 (J reek Lile Paoe 102 No two lives will ever be the same. This is an accepted fact. Yet once one arrives to a mecca as infamous as Berkeley, you quickly join in the agglomeration that is Berkeley Life . It becomes assumed and insinuated you will participate in certain rituals and rites that will complete your Berkeley college experience, which include joining different organizations, attending certain functions, and participating in various cam- pus events. Yet as each individual person proceeds through the learning process that is college, Campus evolves though similar, his her experience will be as distinctive as Above, students enter Sather Gate for the start of another school year. Left, the gate is being erected in the year 1910. The gate was built with funding by Jane Sather, in memory of her husband. The gate once signified the begining of campus from Telegraph Ave. and Kittredge St. Archive photo courtesy of Bancroft Library New Photo by Jason Chan Berkeley itself, and that is saying something! And so with that goal in mind, the following section proposes to catch the essence of life for students while hoping to catch a glimpse of each individual persons experience. lire divider i

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With stuffed boxes, heaps of clothing , and their favorite teddv bear. Students were on up moving Pile it on. Carrying boxes stuffed with neccessities, students bring a little bit of home to get comfortable in their dorm room. The first thing students had to tackle when moving in was how to get all their luggage up to their room, which proved to be a problem when a bulding housing 200-f people had an elevator that fit eight. Phoio by Jason Chan Crowded elevators, ten billion flights of stairs, and triple parking were all a part of the joys of moving in. It was a sight to see on August 14, the official move-in day, as long lines of anxious freshmen formed early in the morning waiting to enter their future homes. 1 got in line at seven in the morning, and the line was still long, commented first year student Jang Bae. • Once the doors finally opened there was a mad rush fi )r the sign-in tables where keys and other vital information were being distributed. From there it was to the elevator. The 2000 pound elevator maximum weight limit did not seem to be enough as some of the students needed fork lifts for some of their luggage. The amount of luggage some of the freshmen managed to bring was mind boggling. Luckily there were some organizations present to help people move in. 1 had a lot of stuff, but 1 didn t have too much tn )uble because people from Berkland Church helped me, said freshman Norma Park. • For those who were too impatient for the two hour elevator wait there was always the stairs; those seemingly endless narrow steps which twisted and turned up eight fiights. It was a great chance to get some exercise while moving in, .said freshman .Matt .Mahoney. • A few upper classmen chose to weather another year in the halls. The more experienced upperclass- men started to trickle in later in the day, after the crowds died out and the wait for the elevator was only an hour; some even came a couple of days after. Third year student Kwan Nguyen, a veteran of hall life, offered this piece of sage advice to the freshmen who may choose to return to the dorms next year. Don ' t unpack anything during the summer, that way you have everything ready to go when August rolls around. • Copy by Brian Kang moving in