“There comes a time during RRR Week when every student finds himself or herself in a moral quandary: To study or, perchance, to browse GIFs on Tumblr for three hours?”
UC Berkeley’s student newspaper, The Daily Californian, is asking the important questions this finals season.

Campus Alert: I guess that means that I’ll have to abandon the campus in favor of a bar that is off-campus. Should be safe there, right?

symphonyofjoy:

UC Berkeley Style

Seeing Oski dance to Gangnam style made my day!

Who made this? It rules.

Tonight’s assigned reading for the first lecture of a class tomorrow. Awesome Tonight’s assigned reading for the first lecture of a class tomorrow. Awesome

Tonight’s assigned reading for the first lecture of a class tomorrow. Awesome

This class is simultaneously taught at UC Berkeley and MIT via cameras with one professor from each campus teaching different portions of the class. They’re in the process of writing a book and Berkeley/MIT students are their e. coli experimentation subjects. (Taken with Instagram at Stanley Hall)

designdesk:

The Daily Californian ‘Calympics’ Issue | Thursday, July 26, 2012

Infographic: ‘A History of Cal in the Olympics’

Graphic Artist: Chris Chau/Staff

55.7% of our medals have been gold? I am disappoint.

“We live in a capitalist system, somebody has to fund this research and science. The government doesn’t have the money.”

Jay Keasling, director of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) program, founder of the new Richmond lab, and pioneer of synthetic biology research at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and UC Berkeley, responding to concerns about the large energy and biotechnology corporations that are “funding this research and licensing the patented new technologies it produces.”

Life is hard.

STUDY HARD OR DIE TRYING (Taken with Instagram at Roger W. Heyns (East) Reading Room)

You may notice the name Gutenberg at the very top, well this reading room also includes the names Dante, Erasmus, Machiavelli, Cervantes, Shakespeare, Galileo, Descartes, Voltaire, Adam Smith, Kant, Gibbon, Goethe, Cuvier and Darwin.