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I'm a PhD student here for a few years now. I've found it really hard to meet people outside of my program. Any advice? I've tried the generic join clubs and go to hobbies but nothing seems to work

I am an incoming transfer student and I will be transferring my this fall and really want to bring my car because I don’t have a place to store it in socal. I will be staying at anchor house so I really won’t be using my car much but I will use it for occasional trips back to SoCal and whatnot. Any advice for safe areas? I know you can get overnight parking if living at one of the on campus apartments but I heard that situation wasn’t great 😬 thoughts??

Hello!

I started seeing this girl and it is going super well. However, she told me she dated a guy for three years who cheated on her and has slept with 12 different men and i would be 13. We are 23 and I had only slept with 4.

Secondly, her roomate is my exes sorority big. It is awkward all the way around.

But at 12 people she’s slept with will she ways be comparing them to me? Idk if this is a long term partner tbh.

I do like her and we have good chemistry.

What do yall think?

If I got a 5 in AP literature then I assume
I don’t have to take any reading and composition I assume, please advice

What are some of the best resources to study for cs 61 a . Thanks

Senior in mechanical engineering who wants to get an eecs minor is it cooked currently 3.67 gpa (haha) yearn for potentially 5th year masters

I'm helping a family member look for a personal injury attorney after an accident, and it's honestly harder than I expected. Every firm seems to have great ratings, so it's difficult to tell which ones actually give clients the attention they need. While researching, I came across Choulos, Choulos & Wyle, but I'd rather hear from people who've had firsthand experience with lawyers in Berkeley or elsewhere in the East Bay.
If you've gone through this before, what should we be looking for beyond online reviews? Were there any firms that really stood out because of their communication, professionalism, or how they handled your case?

Hi everyone, hope your summer is going well.

I have had a rocky relationship with my parents for a while now, and now they have just dropped the news that they are cutting me off from everything (I still live with them right now, but I know they want me to leave).

They are well off, and money is normally not an issue for my family. They never let me have a job in high school or college, and I don't have my own bank account. I thought I could pay my tuition with my mental health and them having autonomy over my life. They told me that I have to pay for everything myself now and to take out loans, but I'm so scared, overwhelmed, and I don't know where to start. I normally pay 50k for UC Berkeley housing and the tuition, but now that I'm being cut off, I can't live in the University's housing as I receive 0 financial aid and it's around 30k. What should I do? I'm so scared.

Advice welcome

EDIT: I was having a mental breakdown when I wrote this post, so I understand that not all the context is here for why my parents and I had a falling out. They just told me I can continue to live at their house, so I guess that's nice. I appreciate everyone's advice and those telling me to get a job... duh!! I definitely got this; many students are in the same boat as me, and this situation won't deter me in the slightest. Go bears!

AC Transit implemented the second phase of a 25-cent fare adjustment Wednesday. Riders will now pay $2.75 for local single-ride fares using Clipper or contactless payment and $3 with cash, increased from $2.50 and $2.75, respectively. 

The completion of the adjustment marks the first time the transit district has increased fares since 2019. The first phase of the fare adjustment took place in July 2025 and saw the local adult cash fare increase from $2.50 to $2.75, as well as the Transbay cash fare increase from $6 to $6.50. 

While AC Transit could potentially cut $53 million from its operating budget if the passage of a transportation sales tax fails in November, the fare hikes are unrelated. According to AC Transit’s spokesperson Robert Lyles, the adjustments were approved before the COVID-19 pandemic, but their implementation was paused to ease the financial burden on riders.

This class had 90% A's last summer session, and I want to get started on my upper div H/SS requirements on COE, and thinking of NWMEDIA 131.
I'm hoping for a really light class since I'm already working 30 hours a week and taking data structures at a CCC. Thanks.

Harshita “Khushi” Nair, a legal studies student and rising senior at UC Berkeley, passed away in June at age 21. 

Nair was from Fremont and graduated from Washington High School. She studied at Ohlone College before transferring to UC Berkeley. She was an active member of the ASUC Office of the President, serving as a Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Justice intern. She was also a member of the Undergraduate Women in Law club. 

Esha Sharma, a friend of Nair, first met her during the spring semester in Hindi 100B, where the two got to know each other through conversations in Hindi.

when I was an undergrad at Cal, every summer, we’d get a bunch of exchange students from Ireland, who’d come stay at the frat houses and take summer classes. is that still a thing?

Does anybody know if they're enforcing in residential areas today? Yesterday was the official holiday, I just want to know if I need to park elsewhere.

im so mad at berkeley

Gov. Gavin Newsom approved California’s state budget for the fiscal year 2026-27, which approves $355 billion in spending, despite the Legislative Analyst’s Office’s May projection of a $16.9 billion deficit. The budget protects UC funding but cuts healthcare coverage and funding for some student financial aid programs as Newsom aims to balance state finances.

The cuts reduce funding for the Middle Class Scholarship, aimed at low- to middle-income UC and CSU students. While it previously covered up to 35% of eligible students’ remaining cost of attendance after other aid, it will cover only 17.5% of the remaining cost of attendance for the 2026-27 school year under the new plan. This is expected to reduce the cost of the program from $1.1 billion to $531 million.

The budget designates a total of approximately $5.4 billion in funding, honoring Newsom’s 2022 compact with the UC and CSU systems to annually increase their funding by 5% over the span of five years.

UC Berkeley School of Law professor John Yoo, best known for authoring the “torture memos,” will advise a Department of Justice investigation into an alleged yearslong conspiracy against President Donald Trump.

Yoo will assist prosecutors in Florida looking into whether former intelligence and law enforcement officials who scrutinized Trump illegally conspired against him.

Yoo led the DOJ’s Office of Legal Counsel under former President George W. Bush and helped author memos used to justify torture against terrorism suspects, which the DOJ later rescinded. He has since remained an advocate for expansive presidential power.