Hey, anyone got spare tickets to the Oracle Arena Eddie Izzard show in January? Sorry for the spam.

i_hope_that
For many of us, the holidays can be kind of rough. If you're searching for a network of understanding friends, this ultra-nurturing community encourages you to express your heartfelt wishes and offer other members encouragement and acceptance. Not for the terminally snarky or emotionally-challenged, this is a good-spirited place to lend comfort and support.

diygifts
Feeling crafty? If you've got a few last folks on your holiday gift list, this is a great place to seed your creativity and generosity. You'll also discover wonderful DIY tips to decorate your home and entertain guests. Offering a no-frills-no-skills attitude that welcomes the cash-challenged and arts-phobic, you're sure to get ideas and make friends in the process.

cooking_club
A fun and friendly community dedicated to those who love to cook, whether you're a meat-and-potatoes type, an aspiring gourmand, and/or a vegan. In search of a brilliant dish to use up those weekly leftovers? Post your ingredients and you'll be whipping up a feast by dinner. You can also share favorite recipes. For Type A chefs, you can spice up your culinary repertoire with exciting cooking challenges.

1. Can a prof change a final grade?
2. What's the time window for this? I mean, I don't think I can find a prof from last sem and get him to change that grade right?

Hi,
I'm looking for a roommate either for this semester or this semester+summer. Email me at sforest@berkeley.edu if you are interested! Danke!

stepstomarrow
When granddaughter, Jada, was born with leukemia, a donor-match was located and Jada made a miraculous recovery. In honor of her grandaughter's health, Jeanna has decided to walk across the country (in the dead of winter) to raise awareness and build support for the bone marrow registry (all that's required is a cheek swab). Follow Jeanna's remarkable journey as she travels the United States by foot.

So I'm graduating, is my email account gonna be closed? Or do we get to keep it?

TY

ucberkeley has never failed me! You guys are my last hope. I've posted this on craigslist but no luck so far (yay for finals week!), and I'm trying to rent my room out before my housemate leaves for winter break. If you're looking for a room of your very own close to campus, ( look no further. )

Hey everyone,

So I just graduated, BUT, there's no jobs, oh the hilarity of it all.

I have decided to make a plan, I did a tamale fundraiser for this half marathon I did a while ago and it was a major success, so now I am thinking about fundraising so I can EAT and live of course.

Do you think it'd be a hit if I decided to sell tamales to students for 1.50 each? (dozens and half dozens may be available too.)

I'd start this project next spring and people can come pick them up at my house and stuff, would you like some? What do you think?

I'd be an ordeal learning how to make veggie but I'd make veggie if it kills me.

Chicken & Pork too.

So, would you like?

taste_buds
Holidays provide a built-in excuse for indulgent entertaining. This all-purpose foodie community covers everything from homemade hangover cures to dinner party menus. Need quick advice? Get five-minute snack suggestions, low-fat ingredient substitutes, and even measurement conversions. Delicious recipes garnished with humorous advice. Yum.

naturesbeauty
Always on the lookout for compelling images, we were delighted to discover this flourishing community of artists who share a love of nature. Honoring the subject with photographs, paintings, sketches, prose, poetry, and other creative works, you'll be simultaneously riveted to your monitor and inspired to run helter skelter towards the nearest wooded dale.

It's so much harder to be popular at UC Berkeley than at my high school in Palo Alto. At my high school all you need to do was any sufficient subset of the following:

* drive a car
* act normal
* wear clothes from Abercrombie and Fitch
* bribe a black friend from East Palo Alto to hang out with you
* be the token Asian on the JV football team
* be polite to women, and not steal anyone's bikes
* have a clique, this really really helps. You only want to be homies with a very small set of people. The goal is to have a clique with very low acceptance rates, and and very high retention rate.
* help only one woman with her math homework, not two, and definitely not three.

In Berkeley you can't drive a car; acting normal is for Republicans; there's no A&F in the 20 mile radius, because Oakland is too poor to buy real clothes; black people from 510 are too cool to hang out with you, unlike the black people in 650; Jeff Tedford definitely does not need a backup linebacker; it's hard to start a clique, and you can't really reject people and have them feel bad about it, because there are so many other options.

But more importantly, nobody wants your help in math homework. They either don't major in math/sciences, or they're really good at math. And by the time you take upper division, you realize you aren't really that good at math. You drag yourself every saturday through 30 pages of algebra, not knowing you made a mistake on pages 2, 3, 11, 17, and 19, turn it in, then you download the solution set which reads like:

"Taylor-xpand the [bloody mess] around a, approximate to 2nd order, then H should trivially reduce to [another bloody mess], then assume [completely non-obvious approximation], it follows straight-forwardly that H is now [a smaller bloody mess], Since P(y) is trivially constant, P(x) is straight-forwardly [a nice looking cosine function]"