Profiling Your Facebook Profile Picture

May 7, 2013 | Anne Ferguson When we go out into the real world each day, we are greeted by a society that generates opinions of people based on outward appearances. And since the eruption of social networking sites for all facets of life, that societal opinion has expanded to include our cyber selves as well. Just as we sort through Read More

Useful Berkeley Facebook Groups

April 11, 2013 | Ingrid Hong Did you know Facebook is not a complete waste of time? For those of you who spend too much time on Facebook (which is basically everyone), instead of browsing through your ex's photos or mindlessly scrolling through your newsfeed, you can join these very useful UC Berkeley related Facebook groups. This Read More

7 Tricks to Avoid Facebook for Finals

April 8, 2013 | Anne Ferguson | 2 Comments Post-spring break is when the seeds of panic are planted in students’ brains and sprout into horrifying, tentacle ridden monsters as due dates loom closer and closer. And at these moments, the last thing anyone needs is a distraction as unproductive, but unquestionably appealing, as Facebook. So, Read More

The Art of “Foodstagram”

April 6, 2013 | Brea Weinreb As I write this I am sitting at Jenky’s Café, a popular breakfast spot in Santa Monica. Waiters are scurrying across the tile floor, delivering heaping plates of pancakes and steaming cups of coffee to salivating breakfast-goers. I watch as a server places a loaded plate of poached eggs, waffles Read More

Latest on Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag

March 3, 2013 | Calvin Hwang | One Comment   Over the week, news of Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag, Ubisoft’s next installment in their well-known video game series, has been leaked. Black Flag is set to release on October 29 with the box art certainly revealing something pretty obvious: a pirate theme. With much positive feedback Read More

Why You Need To Watch The Lizzie Bennet Diaries

March 3, 2013 | Surmayee Tetarbe It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man, in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.  Don’t shoot me, but I wasn’t the biggest fan of Pride and Prejudice the first time I read it. To be fair, it was the abridged version and I was 12 – I just didn’t understand Read More

Code Like a Girl

February 25, 2013 | Ingrid Hong The phrase "like a girl" is usually used between guys to talk down someone. For example, "throw like a girl," "fight like a girl," and even "eat like a girl" are top searches that come up when you search up the phrase. Women in the technological field may be rare at the moment, but that does not mean Read More

“Like” Me Maybe?

January 31, 2013 | Brea Weinreb Imagine a conversation that went like this: “How did you meet your boyfriend?” “Oh, we both liked each other’s pictures on Tinder and fell in love via iMessage!” (I’ll pause here to give readers a moment to gag.) Sadly, this is the reality that comes as a result of Tinder, a new Read More