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]"

backpacking
Want to embrace your wanderlust on the cheap? If you're tall on adventurous spirit, but short on funds, this community can help you plan a trip to anywhere. Offering plentiful tips on how to travel light, you can post about bargain hotels and hostels if you're into urban exploration or discuss camping gear and mosquito netting for the great outdoors. Hitch your backpack, pitch your tent, and carpe diem!

Hey all,

I have a Sealy full size mattress for sale, posted on craigslist but no luck yet. I don't have pictures but if you are interested in buying that'd be awesome. I am thinking 150 or best offer. The only reason I am selling is because I don't have a place to keep it since I am moving to a smaller place that doesn't have any storage space.

I has no stains, I used a foam on top of it to sleep. It's relatively new, 2 years old.

Thanks!

Hi,
I am going to Honduras in January with Berkeley's chapter of Global Water Brigades and working with rural Honduran villages to obtain access to clean water. I am fundraising for my trip via this site, if anyone can donate (even a small amount), I will be incredibly thankful.

https://fundraising.intelis.com/gbl/AThons/Home.jsp?Person=cc0d0bb8124b85c226a1008d4b96eae2&Event=cc0d0bb8120f9a7f25a10016197f083d

**FINAL EDIT Thu Dec 10 02:15:47 UTC 2009**

So there is the final update... Over the past day we have processed around 11 million jobs out of the 12 million that were in queue at that time. Please bear in mind that over this past day, more jobs for notifications are also created. So while the queue has been dropping, we are still not fully caught up at this point, due to backlog and new jobs. We have roughly 3 million jobs still pending that involve the notification system in some manner. We had hoped we could have fully cleared the queue in a day, but unfortunately we can't clear it too quickly, since we need the rest of the site to operate normally. From our current perspective on the amount of jobs that are left in queue, and how many it has processed thus far, we believe it will take around another 8 - 12 hours to process everything.

And finally some answers to some questions:

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freeskiers
While some of us long to escape the cold, dark stretch of winter for hot tropical beaches, for others, there's nothing quite like whoooooshing down those shimmering sugar alps. If you're fond of freestyle skiing, get ready to slide down the slippery slopes in good company. This passionate, international community shares travel/gear tips, anecdotes, photos, and videos for those who can't get enough of the sweet stuff.

seasonal_icons
Need some extra twinkle to decorate your place? Check out these dazzling holiday-themed icons. If you're an artist, you can post your own creations, provided you abide by the simple rules (which is to say, all cheer and no politicking). Be sure to comment and give credit if you wish to borrow a little spirit (no direct links, please). If you're feeling a touch of humbug this season, this is an instant shot of festivity.

handmade_gifts
High on creativity, but low on cash? You'll find tons of brilliant suggestions for do-it-yourself crafts sure to please everyone on your holiday gift list. Offering detailed instructions, photos, budgets, timelines, and active support, you'll soon turn spare remnants of fabric and time into cherished keepsakes. Be sure to search entries and read user guidelines before you post for help!

Hi all!

I was wondering if anyone here has already taken Astro C10 with Filippenko and has old practice midterms/finals or knows if they're available in a test bank online? Astro's hands down my most interesting class this semester .. but being an English major (who hasn't taken math or physics since high school), it's so much harder than I expected. I'm going to be studying like crazy for the final, and could use more than the 25 questions he puts in the reader.

Thanks in advance for any help and good luck on finals!