<p>So I'm basking in the glow of having finished all classwork and attended my final lecture, and I'm reflecting on the past few years I've spent here. There's been a lot I've appreciated (and enough that I didn't or couldn't!) and I thought I'd start a thread to see if anyone else wants to share some of their favorite things as well. :)</p>
<p>Doesn't need to be about academic, or the university itself -- anything at all related to Cal is fair game!</p>
<p>The reason I started this thread:</p>
<p>Despite its reputation as a monstrously huge, impersonal public university, I get to hang out and relax after finals, drink beer/wine with my professors and shoot the breeze.</p>
<p>wow this list could be longer</p>
<p>That would be the point of making this its own thread: soliciting input from others.</p>
<p>no finals undecided?</p>
<p>I have finals, but they don’t matter. Hooray!</p>
<p>I <3 cal because half the student population cries with me after finals… =<strong><em>=
So I never have to feel alone =</em></strong>______=</p>
<p><em>sigh~~~</em></p>
<p>^ Umm…that’s kind of depressing :(</p>
<p>^ Hahah that was awesome. Bell curves for life!</p>
<p>I think it looks more like a 1/e^x curve… :S</p>
<p>HAHA I know what you mean. Everybody leaves thinking they fail…and even though most do fail you always know that there is somebody who scored worse…of which there are usually hundreds who score worse and end up failing. But I still love Cal. lol we seem like those people on Maury who get beaten and violated all the time, but still stay with the abuser because they are in love =)</p>
<p>I don’t know about you guys, but I feel like I’m sitting on top of the world after each final even if I know I failed and did not answer half of the pages out of 22 or so. =)</p>
<p>Here’s some of my favorite things nevertheless:
Oh wait. Yet to be found sadly… (I mean I could count the fact that I got in a small fight with this guy who wanted my wallet last week, but that’s just bragging.)</p>
<p>Wow… this is really starting to depress me… I came home feeling miserable after my IB Bio HL test, and now…ehhhh. I’m just gonna go and continue stuffing my face in my gallon of ice cream…to think in a year I might have to cry like the rest of you guys instead of eating my gloominess away…</p>
<p>Uggh its hard to be optimistic, especially in the sciences/engineering, when you are constantly fighting to obtain a decent grade…or for a lot of people just pass it can take a toll on you.</p>
<p>Hahah, well, maybe you guys can come back after you finish your finals; you’re dragging everything down. ;)</p>
<p>I love love LOVE the Bancroft Library. That manuscripts and rare books are available for me to handle directly, that the university cares enough to continually acquire and maintain such treasures, is the most amazing thing. My entire department – as well as Dr. Tony Bliss of the library himself – has consistently encouraged its students to use these resources that are here for our use as scholars, and it’s amazing that they really do mean it! Today I got to view a papyrus scrap of the Aeneid, among other really cool unique things (like some unpublished Petrarch!).</p>
<p>I love that I have access to The City via a short BART ride that drops me right in the heart of downtown, but that I also live in a city with its own unique culture. And despite being a pretty urban place, it has some of the most beautiful natural locations on and near campus.</p>
<p>I love that when I’m walking down the hill, going home after classes near the Campanile, I can look over the city, the bay, see the Golden Gate Bridge, see the campus spread out with its new and old buildings, the trees, the students – and know this is where I go to school.</p>
<p>lol… I just ate a whole pint of haagendaz ice cream… xD</p>
<p>not to mention a ton of other comfort food xD</p>
<p>You guys are scaring the crap out of me with these nasty tests and curves.</p>
<p>Is UCLA like this too by the way?</p>
<p>lol StarryNights. So you don’t just cry huh? At least that’s a comfort…Comfort food is fantabulous! It works like a charm! I’m almost done with my whole gallon :S Feel kinda sick (and I know I’m gonna be sick tomorrow :p) but at the moment, I don’t feel depressed at all. It’s wonderful 
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<p>and thanks for that undecided, I’m glad berkeley isn’t all horribly nightmarish ;)</p>
<p>So who is ready for the Chem 3A final coming up?!?!?!?! =)</p>