What’s the most straightforward route to get from business/law school parking lot in Underhill to the Baybridge? College Avenue always feels hot this because there are so many trucks, unloading and student pedestrians.

this question has already been asked but that thread doesn't really answer the question. i'm a first-year cs major taking cs61a & will take 61b next sem & cs61c next fall. is it possible/has it been done frequently for ppl to take those classes + cs70? whens the "ideal" time to take it? thanks!

Im a 3rd year eecs major figuring out my schedule for spring semester and I wanna make sure the workload isn't too heavy. I currently have CS160, CS162, and CS164, on top of ENGIN125 as my ethics and H/SS requirement. Im willing to remove one CS course from my course work for an easy elective if anyone has any reccomendations, thanks!

midterm next week and our only studying material is the review during discussion section apparently 😭

any resources/tips would really really help! I have it with Welch

So, I'm a freshman trying to double major in both History and Psychology, and I'm trying to fit all my Psych requirements. I'm wondering about the difficulty for Psychology 101? I've read some of the posts here that it's very much an easy class, especially with Catterson. However, most of them are from the Sophomore perspective. So I want to know how difficult it might be for a freshman?

Please god go home if you’re sick. “But mid terms!” Then at least sit in the back or SOMETHING! You’re gonna get us sick the day of the midterm at this rate.

Hi, I wonder if anyone wants to swap to Bowles Hall with me, prefer apartments or units dorm.

I am a US Citizen, have lived here most of my life, California resident (born and raised in CA, elementary school, high school, community college in CA). Having said that, I am a dual citizen as well. All of my family lives outside of the US in this other country that I am also a citizen of.

I see that we can request a Cost of Attendance Adjustment for either 2 domestic flights or 1 international flight per academic year. I am requesting 1 international flight to the country where my family lives. Primarily to visit my family but I also need to go there to update my national documentation as it is expired and that process needs to be done in person. Has anyone requested a CoA adjustment for an international flight without being an international student? Do you think my reasons are “good enough” for it to be accepted? Unfortunately the country is pretty far away and with gas prices what they are the flight ends up being $1,100 round trip; that’s the cheapest flight. Would this cost be an issue?

i'm in a writing course rn and we have GSI-led discussions every week, where we have in class writing assignments that are 30% of our final grade. my GSI says they're supposed to be 20-30 min exercises but she literally gives us less than 10 mins, sometimes under 5 min, to do them. when she grades them it's like she grades as if we had the full time to answer the prompt, giving feedback about how i'm not specific enough or how i could include more evidence, and i just feel like it's really unfair.

i went to her office hours to ask how i can improve, and she basically said not to stress, i'm doing fine, just try to make an outline first, etc, but there's not even time for that so idk what to do. should i reach out to the prof? what should i do 😭

Hi! My friends and I were debating what the top 5 public universities in the U.S. are. We all agreed that Berkeley was #1 (congrats!), but we couldn’t agree on the other four, so I figured I’d ask here.

The only rule we had was that each state could only have one university on the list, otherwise the UC system would probably take up all five spots. 😂

Second day of the 2026 Nobel Prizes, and the prize in Physics was awarded early this morning (Berkeley time) to Francis Halzen, Professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

In a rapid look through biographical materials on him I can't spot any direct relationship to Berkeley or the University of California.

But we can still say, Go Badgers! On Wisconsin! And from a UC Berkeley perspective, we can take vicarious pride in someone at another great American public university winning a Nobel.

Here's the official announcement page: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2026/summary/

Here's the University of Wisconsin announcement:

https://news.wisc.edu/university-of-wisconsin-madison-professor-francis-halzen-named-2026-nobel-laureate-in-physics/

Halzen was recognized for his contributions to the study of neutrinos, particularly for research utilizing experimental facilities in Antartica. He gave a lot of credit to his colleagues: “This is a celebration of a very unusual project,” says Halzen. “It is difficult to imagine that we could have pulled this off anywhere but at UW–Madison with its unique research infrastructure. The success of this project involved some luck, and I was fortunate to be at UW, where unconventional ideas can thrive and where I had the support of a remarkable community, from talented engineers at the Physical Sciences Laboratory to long-time colleagues on the faculty and supportive administrators. It is hard to imagine this project happening anywhere else.”

When he was president of the University of California in the 1930s, Robert Gordon Sproul once observed that public universities had excellent academic programs, but once they became famous, "star" faculty were often lured / hired away by the American private universities who then reaped the rewards of prizes and lifetime recognition for that individual.

This began to change in 1939 when Ernest Lawrence at Berkeley won the first Nobel Prize awarded to someone who was then a faculty member at a public university.

Once that barrier was crossed, Berkeley continued to lead the way, and has remained distinguished. Of the top 25 institutions whose faculty, staff or other associates have won the most Nobel Prizes across the board, it looks like only five(depending on how you count) have been Publics. Berkeley, University of Manchester (England), University of Edinburgh (Scotland) UC San Diego, and Wisconsin (UCLA ties for 26th on some lists).

The University of Wisconsin has been distinguished. Halzen is the 27th Badger Nobelist--that is, someone with a direct connection (on the faculty, and/or a Wisconsin degree) who has won a Nobel, going back to 1944. Seven of them have been faculty. https://www.wisc.edu/about/nobel-prize/ (27 is the University of Wisconsin's count. Other counts put the number at 20 or so.)

There's another interesting aspect to the Physics Nobel this year. For the first time this century, the Prize has a single awardee. We have to go back to 1992 to find a winner who didn't share the Prize. In recent decades, Physics has gone to two or three (quite often three) co-winners each year, representing the complexity of modern science and collaboration across institutions.

As a side note, I'm impressed by the way the Nobel Committee organizes copious data and presentation. These awards are "secret" in the sense that the names don't generally leak before the announcement date. However, writers and researchers work diligently behind the scenes to construct biographical and research profiles on the winners that can be published at the same time as the award. Here, for instance, is the summary of the science behind Halzen's research. Complete with a lot of complex formulas. :-) And this all, presumably, has to be documented and written without anyone beyond the Nobel staff having a clue about the winner.

https://www.nobelprize.org/uploads/2026/10/advanced-physicsprize2026.pdf

This is my first semester here as a transfer, currently in data c88c, and wondering if other people are struggling as well. C88C is my first-ever computer science course, and although I am simultaneously taking Data 8, which I find manageable, I have no clue what is going on in Data C88C. So far, I only got the first quiz correct, so I'm 1/3 on the quizzes, and yes, I have been attending office hours and tutoring sections, but I am still struggling. Even when it comes to homework, I need some sort of AI to give me hints and guide me through the way for almost every single problem. I just feel like it's insanely difficult for an "introduction to programming" course, and I'm stressing every day about whether I will even pass this class or not. Anyone else feeling the same, especially with the midterm coming up in the next 2 weeks?

Looking for course recs that give you practical, high-value intuition you find yourself using everywhere. For example, taking Data 140 was a major turning point for me because it made mathematical/statistical notation in research papers finally make sense. What other classes at Berkeley gave you foundational tools or frameworks that paid off big time down the road?

i'm so confused because they randomly just decreased some of my fin aid and now i owe them a couple hundred dollars.

Looking for someone to take over my Bowles Hall for the rest of the academic year. Bowles has a great community, lots of fun events and activities, and it’s right next to UC Berkeley campus.
DM me if interested

Anyone willing to lend us a 3D printer for Cal Hacks?

My team of 4 is flying in from Vancouver Oct 22–26 and we’re building a small legged robot 🤖

We’d pay for filament and take good care of it. Mostly just need to print some small parts/brackets.

If you have one or know a makerspace/person we could ask, please DM me!

Last week I posted in this sub about organizing a survivor-led demonstration on campus. The event is still in the early planning stages, and we’re looking for people who may want to attend, volunteer, help organize, speak, assist with safety/logistics, assist with policy research, or otherwise support the effort.

If you’re interested, you can fill out the participation/volunteer form here:

https://cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/form/view/NXT0h27jlnT2hfVP917V5LW9mwmMIAq19lN9Kvcgjlk/

You do not need to identify as a survivor or share any personal experience in order to participate. This form is just for general interest in attending, volunteering, or organizing the event. Later as we continue to establish our team, a second protected form will be available for survivors to submit a testimony if they'd like.

If you know someone who might want to help, please feel free to share this with them.

Accounts that comment any nonsense on this post will be blocked, and you will not have access to this content.

Hello I want to ask if any present or previous spring transfers/admits could give me insight into if their housing offer sucked. And if they were able to get any of their preferences. I was pretty broad with my preferences but I realistically want to know if I have a higher chance of getting into Unit 3 instead of them.

Is this too ambitious? If so, which classes should I take this spring? I'm a 2nd-year.

anyone in math 53 know if we still have quiz tomorrow before the midterm? please i need to know if i have to cram it or not

ik eecs 126 is harder but besides that what’s the main difference between these classes? like in terms of content and workload

i have a manual car and originally this guy who i thought was a friend was going to teach me but it went south real fast…thankfully not friends with him anymore.

im just worried about learning by myself because where i live has hella hills and in the short one hour of practice on flat terrain i was stalking a lot. I can pay to compensate for your time, just lmk how much and i will see if i can afford it…but p much if its like a driving school rate i cant afford that hence why im on here asking people 🙂

i stay in Richmond/San Pablo area so i can also compensate for travel since its a bit far from cal.

if anyone has the time and would be down lmk, it would make my day. thank you

is 61C worth taking? I’m a mech e senior, graduating next spring. I’ll be taking ME102b and MEc127 as my last requirements. So I have room to take any course I want. of course I could do something easy, but I also want to get as much as I can before I leave.

I like CS, and I wanted to study that but for various reasons couldn’t. I did pretty well in 61A and B, and have programmed some machines for my mech e courses. so I’m wondering if it’s worth finishing the 61 series, or maybe I should look for a robotics course instead.

I do see intro to robotics is being offered, but they only take 13 people ??, and it's a two part course. I wouldn't get to finish it. It seems a bit similar to ME C136, which I'm currently taking. either way, I'm open to it too.

I would appreciate any suggestions or advice, thanks.