Archive for UC Berkeley

Interviewing The Golden Bloggers (Cal Football Season Preview)

I’ll be the first to admit I’m not a football maniac. Okay, maybe I am, but I’m a stupid football maniac. I can’t claim to be knowledgeable about the offensive package Jeff Tedford runs. I don’t have the slightest clue about whether Washington State or Washington will be the more likely team to upset the […]

Posted by: Avinash on Monday, August 27th, 2007

The Shining Lights (Ten of the Best Professors This Semester)

Standing ovations. You don’t do this often. Maybe at a basketball game, maybe after a great musical. But these teachers? They lecture so perfectly that you can’t help but stand and cheer. So in case you want a great experience in class along with your good grades, obsessively stare at your waitlists and try to […]

Posted by: Avinash on Tuesday, August 21st, 2007

Shouldn’t You Have Been Fired Yet? (Ten of the Worst Professors This Semester)

Just for the fun of it, we decided to create the doomsday scenario for you. Some of you think you have it bad with your miscellaneous craploads? Imagine a combination of the following teachers of terror. These profs are not going to make your life fun. So in case you’ve ever thought of killing yourself, […]

Posted by: Avinash on Monday, August 20th, 2007

How Sadomasochistic Are You? (Hardest Classes This Semester)

Hey tough guy. So taking 25 units with research wasn’t backbreaking enough for you? Do you just really want a kick in the ass? Want to feel the cold boot of academia squash you into the ground until you’re nothing but bones and meat? Believed you’ve had it too easy as a kid, and can’t […]

Posted by: Avinash on Sunday, August 19th, 2007

Just Want To Club in SF? Easiest Classes This Semester, Part IV

(The semester is now closer than ever, and you’re probably scrambling around Telebears these last few weeks, filling up holes in your schedules with classes you probably will end up hating. Well, no worries. We’ll be happy to provide you with teachers who will be pushover…push you to your limits. Of your alarm clocks. If […]

Posted by: Avinash on Saturday, August 18th, 2007

Like to Skip Lecture? Easiest Classes This Semester, Part III

(The semester is now closer than ever, and you’re probably scrambling around Telebears these last few weeks, filling up holes in your schedules with classes you probably will end up hating. Well, no worries. We’ll be happy to provide you with teachers who will be pushover…push you to your limits. Of your alarm clocks. If […]

Posted by: Avinash on Friday, August 17th, 2007

Want to Feel As Stress-Free As Possible? Easiest Classes This Semester, Part II

The semester is now closer than ever, and you’re probably scrambling around Telebears these last few weeks, filling up holes in your schedules with classes you probably will end up hating. Well, no worries. We’ll be happy to provide you with teachers who will be pushover…push you to your limits. Of your alarm clocks. If […]

Posted by: Avinash on Thursday, August 16th, 2007

Running Out of Options? Easiest Classes This Semester, Part I

(The semester is now closer than ever, and you’re probably scrambling around Telebears these last few weeks, filling up holes in your schedules with classes you probably will end up hating. Well, no worries. We’ll be happy to provide you with teachers who will be pushover…push you to your limits. Of your alarm clocks. If […]

Posted by: Avinash on Wednesday, August 15th, 2007

Poll Smoking–Telebears XVIII, Sociology

For our last Telebears preview, we bring you the tough slog major that is…sociology. Sociology…isn’t this what all the Cal football/basketball players who couldn’t major in social welfare or family planning or mass comm. end up majoring in? Or the department where humorless feminists go to preach social change? Yeah. That’s what we think about […]

Posted by: Avinash on Thursday, May 3rd, 2007

Studying Abroad Forever, Telebears XVII–Anthropology

Anthropology always seemed like an interesting, low-maintenance, and even somewhat relevant type of major that the geek inside all of us appreciates. You get to learn about people, about culture, travel to exotic locations, meet the remaining indigenous tribes on Earth. As long as you don’t mind all the skeleton interaction and aren’t a necrophiliac, […]

Posted by: Avinash on Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007