CalSO Issue 2016

You’ve taken your first, fortuitous steps through Sproul Plaza.

Some suggestions are obviously more pertinent to certain students than others but in general, cherish advice on where and how to study, career planning, where to hang out and more.

Michelle had worked so hard for that day, for this future. It was time for her to get ready to move far away — to my home state of California, to the school where Uncle Don taught, to where history was and is still being made. Though I worried about her stress and safety, I reminded myself when it came time for orientation that this is my daughter: she is prepared to take on the world.

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When I arrived at CalSO, I had two goals: to figure out my classes for the upcoming semester and to make a friend.

But as I failed to make sense of my own yellow-peeled stupidity, I realized that I don’t even know me; I’ve merely met me. The horrible truth is that I’m not sure exactly why I smuggled bananas.

Each summer, thousands of newly admitted UC Berkeley students flood campus for two-day crash courses on time-honored Cal traditions and to sign up for their first set of classes. Since its inception in 1968, CalSO was intended as a space where baby Bears could learn to navigate the campus and meet some of their peers before officially starting school in the fall.