we are dreamgirls...

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!

So I checked my grades on sisweb and was not expecting the grades that were posted. Before I email the professor, I wanted to know what the UCD policy is for talking to the professors about grades at this point. I vaguely remember something one of my previous professors said last year about not being allowed to discuss grades with students after they have been submitted?

My professor said he would email us our grades during the week of finals so we'd know what to expect on our transcript, but he never did. :[

And btw, does anyone know the policy on regrades?

Thanks

Hi UCDLJ. Hope you all survived finals.

I am a president of an on campus club, and annually we fundraise with a Trivia Night for grad/undergrad/professors in our department. We usually use a venue that has alcohol service and a private room. The event can draw anywhere from 30-60 people.

Does anyone have any suggestions of places that can have events like this? Usually, we've used Sudweks, but have had issues in the past as they do not split checks, and people were skipping out on their bills. We've looked into having a dinner buffet there, but their prices are high for our little club. Has anyone held an event at sudweks?? Can anyone suggest different venues?

Thank you!

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

TY

So maybe the whole march on the chancellor's house wasn't as crazy as the UCB press release made it out to be.

The student Activism blog has an update on what facts have come to light since last week. The 8 students who were picked up on felony charges, while they had their bails set over $100k, the DA decided there was no case and all of them were released, but not before three of them had posted a non-refundable $13k bond.

UC Davis professor Bob Ostertag wrote an article defending two of his students who were among those 8.

In the end whatever happened during Live week ended up with students, admins, and the police at each others' throats.

My Conclusion: Everybody in Berkeley is crazy.

I found out that I got a C- in BIS102, a major-required course. Should I just start crying now and give up on going to grad school, or is there any way I can retake this class at Davis? I know that C- is kind of a "limbo" grade because it's passing and therefore can't retake it, but it isn't accepted by many grad/professional schools. I have already e-mailed my adviser asking what to do, but she is out of office during break. I'm guessing I can't ask my prof to drop my grade down to a D because it is already in sisweb.

So UCDLJers...any insight on what to do with this lousy grade? Or should I just let the tears fall :'(

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?

Aggies, I need your help.

If I have got an incomplete this quarter, does that bump me down to being not in good standing? My GPA is above 2.00 and I'm meeting minimum progress but I'm paranoid about that incomplete affecting my academic standing.

BONUS POINTS FOR CHRISTMAS CHEER IN YOUR COMMENTS :/

Is anyone else enraged that livejournal is flooding with ads? I dropped by UCDLJ to read the comments to the past 2 posts, and they had fullscreen ads that I couldn't close for 5 seconds!

LJ has stooped to a new low. :[

At approximately 11 p.m. Friday (Dec. 11), a group of about 40 to 70 protesters stormed Chancellor Robert J. Birgeneau's home on the north side of the UC Berkeley campus, smashing planters, windows and lights while shouting, "No justice, no peace." They also threw incendiary objects at the house, which could have caused a major fire.

Eight people, including two identified as UC Berkeley students, were arrested and charged with rioting, threatening an education official, attempted burglary, attempted arson of an occupied building, felony vandalism, and assault with a deadly weapon on a police officer.

The attack at the chancellor's home followed a four-day occupation of the campus's Wheeler Hall building claiming to focus efforts on "opening the university." UC Berkeley police arrested 66 students and other protesters early Friday morning, the same day the group was set to hold an unauthorized concert inside the classroom building, which threatened to compromise the ability to conduct final exams. At the university's request, the UC Berkeley students without outstanding warrants were cited and released later Friday.

Denouncing the violent actions, Chancellor Birgeneau said, "These are criminals, not activists. The attack at our home was extraordinarily frightening and violent. My wife and I genuinely feared for our lives. The people involved in this action will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. I want to emphasize that they represent an extreme minority of our students."

Read more of the "official" story

The Student Activism blog came out against the assault, but then had to back-pedal because "revolutions" are supposed to push people out of their comfort zones or something.

The Wheeler Hall activists are not happy with the arrests; I'm not sure if this article is a direct response to those arrested at the chancellor's house though.

Now, Cal students might have reason to be upset: their occupation at Wheeler Hall this week was supposedly sanctioned to some extent, but then on Friday police just came in and arrested everyone without a dispersal order.


The way I see it, the "movement" has attracted every anarchist in the UC system. I don't think things are going to calm down at all in the new year.

So my boyfriend is having a very hard time finding an entry level job doing anything in Davis right now. He graduated two years ago from UCD and has picked up some odd jobs doing website design and tutoring and the like, but nothing's stuck.

Does anyone know of any jobs that are entry level positions around town?

He doesn't have much job experience but he does have skills in programming and website design and is willing to do any sort of entry level stuff, be that maintenance or food service or retail or whatnot.

He doesn't have his driver's license yet (though he is in the process of learning) so it has to be in Davis or a bus route. :-/

Thanks!

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]"

So I only had a dollar to my name (10 cents after I bought my coffee), so I went down to the MU Games Area to withdraw money from my bank's ATM.

Chase apparently removed their only ATM on campus.

Now I need to walk or bike downtown whenever I need cash without being charged a gratuity fee. This is so annoying. I want my inconveniently placed, but still more convenient than not being there, ATM back.

I'm almost tempted to move back to Union Bank, or switch to Wells Fargo.

Anyone know of any good dumpsters in Davis that throw away good things like furniture or used computers?

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!

Hey guys,

So I broke my calculator (don't ask) trying to replace the battery (which cost $8). So now I'm out of a non-graphing calculator for my econ final tomorrow...

Any ideas where I can either borrow one on-campus (and return it afterwards) or buy one for real cheap within 24 hrs and in Davis? I'm reluctant to head back to Radio Shack, since that's where I got my $8 battery.

Ideas?

P.S. I guess one of the perks of CC was that they provided cheapo calculators for students for every test... Mhmmm.

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

There is going to be a surprise tomorrow morning...
But do you know what it is?

SPOILER WARNING:
Don't read this post before Monday morning!