As a jaded junior, I have a solid strategy for walking through Sproul during the day. 1) Hands in pockets. 2) Earphones in and blasting music. 3) No eye contact. 4) Permanent RBF.   These four things ensure that I am never handed a flyer by anyone, and believe me, it works. However, there is […]

By virtue of the fact that most of us are Cal students, at some point or the other we have all buried ourselves in our various dungeons on a hot date with some readings, a paper or a problem set. We whine and sigh and curse our luck as we trek our way through Main […]

Everyone who has ever been martyr enough to host a soiree at their humble abode is familiar with the set of emotions generally experienced the morning after. It’s a lethal combination of “what the f— happened last night”, “why do I feel like a truck just ran over my face” and “what the hell do […]

The first time I tried to cook on my own in my apartment, I almost burnt the place down. No, I’m not exaggerating, things actually caught on fire. There I was innocently frying my bacon (without turning the exhaust on or opening the windows) and my fire alarm went off. At that point, I did the […]

There’s nothing more deflating than your sudden lack of independence when you come home for the holidays. Even if you just spent a year in the dorms and don’t really know how to handle bill payments and subletters, for the last eight months, you’d been living on your own terms. You controlled what you did […]

Presenting: A new feature of Caliber Magazine- Ask Caliber! www.calibermag.org/ask   It’s a Friday night. You’re sitting with your friends, taking a break from Frat Row for the week. You all stare wistfully at your Scrabble board, knowing that if you suggest that one more time, somebody’s gonna get hurt reeeeeal bad. You wish desperately that you knew […]