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AI best practices and free tools for students.
- Managing Student Loans
Practical tools from real stories to inform your decisions about loans. - Internship Success Stories
Internship success stories to motivate your own journey. - Grad Housing: Student Perspectives
Graduate students say why they love where they live
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Explore the open clubs of Berkeley. - Bear Statues Hunt
Can you find every bear statue on campus? - Making Friends @ Cal
How do UC Berkeley students find their people?
Berkeley in Reel Life
We asked students “What do you love about UC Berkeley?” Share your favorite things in the comments!
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Things to do around UC Berkeley: Love Letter Edition 💌
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Title opens with “Things To Do Around UC Berkeley”. Page 2 highlights the @ucbgarden which is free for students with your Cal1 Card.
Page 3 highlights @sodoicoffee, a local coffee shop
Page 4 recommends a relaxing reading session in the Doe Library
Page 5 recommends the glade near the Valley Life Sciences building
Page 6 recommends walking around the entire UC Berkeley campus to take in all the sights, sounds, and smells.
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Spending the summer at UC Berkeley is so underrated ☀️
Video description: Montage of summers at UC Berkeley. Students are relaxing and playing games on Memorial Glade.
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Did you know a UC Berkeley alum once commanded the International Space Station? Happy AAPI Heritage Month! Here are just a few iconic AAPI UC Berkeley alumni you should know about. ✨🐻
Let us know in the comments which AAPI UC Berkeley alum inspires you the most!👇💜
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Video description: UC Berkeley student interns Lauren and Rico take turns speaking directly to the camera to share historical facts. As they speak, photos of three notable AAPI UC Berkeley alumni appear on screen: actor John Cho, author Maxine Hong Kingston, and astronaut Leroy Chiao.
UC Berkeley students are truly some of the most talented photographers around. 📸 We asked our Official UC Berkeley Discord community to share their best campus shots, and we just had to post a few of our favorites.
The Official UC Berkeley Discord server is a place where current students can come together! We have movie nights, game nights, giveaways and more! Link in our bio!
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Image 1: A hazy, golden-hour panoramic view over a campus featuring a tall stone bell tower, with a city skyline and bay visible through the mist in the distance. Credit: @wangyinhe.wyh
Image 2: An ornate bronze detail of Sather Gate featuring a star design, silhouetted against a dark night sky with the moon glowing just behind its top edge. Credit @snacc641
Image 3: Looking straight up the center of the multi-story concrete spiral staircase inside the Main Stacks towards a bright circular skylight. Credit: Discord user Soham
Image 4: The iconic Campanile stone bell tower reaches into a clear blue sky, framed by out-of-focus pink, orange, and purple flowers in the foreground. Credit: @yao.howard
Image 5: A view from inside the dimly lit Doe Library, looking past silhouetted reading lamps through a large arched window at a sunlit building and golden hillside. Credit: @l_jessieeee
Image 6: A close-up of a brown campus squirrel clinging upside-down to a tree trunk, looking directly into the camera. Credit: @creativelynivi
Image 7: A golden sunset view framed through the interlocking metal rings of the Hearst Mining Circle and reflection pool. Credit: @jasmine.vl118
Image 8: A warm sunset view of the Campanile tower framed by the dark geometric silhouette of a building’s balcony. Credit: @brandon.j.qi
Image 9: A heavily motion-blurred photograph of three people walking away down a sidewalk, focusing on the back of a person wearing a dark jacket with yellow “GOLDEN BEARS” lettering. Credit: @thrutheeyesofdav
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