Written by Samantha Wong (PEACE advisor) It’s 9pm, and you’re getting ready to start an intense study session to prepare for your midterm tomorrow. You also need a study motivator to accompany you, so you’re headed to ShareTea to grab boba. However, your midterm is at 10am tomorrow, so you want to make sure that you’ll still...
Written by Samantha Wong (PEACE advisor) With the semester more than halfway over, it’s more important than ever to finish the semester strong. Unfortunately, students tend to get sick around this time of the year as well, and I’ve seen many of my friends, roommates, and classmates suffer from the characteristic sniffles and coughs...
Written by Kevyn Niu (PEACE advisor) Hi all, Lord of Coffees back again. We all have endless numbers of study guides for classes, best ways to optimize how we study, how we can get the best amount of learning done in a limited amount of time, and so forth. But in all that, we...
Written by Anyun Chatterjee (PEACE advisor) Short answer – yes I first began my meditation journey in high school. For me, meditation was originally a tool to increase my focus. Embarrassingly, I thought if I started meditated regularly I would get better at standardized test taking and also at games like chess that required a lot...
Written by Christopher Wang (PEACE Advisor) If you’ve ever wanted a free copy of Microsoft Office or Adobe Creative Suite, then you’re in luck. UC Berkeley has partnered with various organizations to promote accessibility for individual and institutional programs. What this means is that you are eligible for a one-time free purchase of all...
Written by Kevyn Niu (PEACE Advisor) Hi all, your resident Lord of Coffees checking in again. This week, I’ll be presenting reviews of all the study spaces I know of on campus, so you’ll never have to wonder where to go to study again! Having studied in basically every location on campus, it is...
Written by Kevyn Niu (PEACE advisor) Hi all, Lord of Coffees here once again! This week, I’ll be continuing my series of my reviews of study spaces on campus, with a comprehensive list of pros and cons. Once again, these are my personal opinions of having gone here for four years; please take with...
Written by Anyun Chatterjee (PEACE Advisor) Perhaps those fortunate few who are socially well-adjusted might not have had this problem, but personally after leaving the unavoidable social atmosphere of the dorms upon entering my sophomore year, I quickly found myself interacting with people less and less. First semester sophomore year brings this change without...
Written by Merel Dagher (PEACE Advisor) It’s week four of the new semester (can you believe it?) and everything has gotten slightly out of hand and overwhelming and things are rushed and nothing seems to be slowing down. It’s a really hard position to be in, especially given how much is going on and...
Written by Anyun Chatterjee (PEACE Advisor) Lately there have been a good number of PSAs on various student groups warning students of experiences with various unsavory characters. It is in fact a sad truth that there has been a spike in crime around Berkeley in the last month or so, and a result many...