Some graduates decorate their caps to spell out their sororities’ names. Other people, like Roland Saekow, create a green residential lot on theirs.
Complete with grass paper (astroturf probably causes global warming or something), a solar panel, a wind turbine, a small house and a mechanical rising sun, Roland’s hat made statement. You, too, can have a green cap. What for? Don’t be silly.
Though normally we’d be jerks and point out that you don’t actually have to power your cap in the first place—let alone construct a sustainable way to do so—we won’t do that today. Instead, hats off to Roland, who showed us how graduation gear no longer has to depend on pollutants like petroleum any more. Oil kills!
Green Graduation Cap, solar and wind power [YouTube]
Green Graduation Cap [AP Community]
Posted by Jill Cowan on Sunday, May 17, 2009 12:00 am
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You may have been too stressed out of your mind to notice that, while you were stalking angrily to your finals on Thursday and Friday, you were ruining family photos on Upper Sproul Plaza or in front of the Campanile. Yes, there is a reason for the sudden rash of people taking cheesy pictures … and that reason is graduation season.
That means a lot of people walking around in caps and gowns, stopping in front of every building on campus, capturing their final Berkeley memories. It also means sometimes-semi-interesting commencement speakers. Some of these commencement speeches look pretty crash-able, especially the outdoor ones, so even if you don’t know anybody in the major, you might be able to catch some words of wisdom.
Image Source: m00by under Creative Commons Graduation ceremony season starts Thursday, May 14 [NewsCenter]
Posted by Diana Newby on Tuesday, April 21, 2009 12:57 am
Secretary of Energy Steven Chu—former director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and professor at UC Berkeley—will be Caltech’s commencement speaker this year. Apparently the Nobel Prize cowinner’s “focus on energy research makes him an ideal speaker for Caltech.”
This decision entirely discounting his years of teaching physics and biology here at Berkeley? We won’t pretend we’re not a tad disappointed. But hey, it’s a feeling we’re quite accustomed to by now.
Prolonging your grad date might not work either, if that’s what you’re thinking. Seniors, you’re screwed. Juniors, you’re probably screwed too. We hope you plan on getting a Ph.D. in something useful.
Craig Newmark, the founder of craigslist, will deliver the Commencement Convocation speech Tuesday, May 13. His special treat to graduating seniors? He’ll be making it up on the spot.
NewsCenter reports that Newmark will emphasize three main points in his speech:
1. Follow in my footsteps: “Never read a prepared speech unless you’re good at it.”
2. Wanna know corporate life? (No.) Read Dilbert.
3. When in doubt, quote Shakespeare: “Brevity is the soul of wit.”
We’d also like to add a No. 4: Never use craigslist casual encounters when drunk.
The event begins at 4 p.m. at the Greek Theatre. Congratulations to all those graduating!
Image Source: Andrew Feinberg under Creative Commons
Craiglist founder to give commencement speech [NewsCenter]
In addition to department graduation ceremonies, a few other groups on campus also hold their own get-togethers for proud graduates. It’s a great way to graduate with a community of people (rather than the curve-setting peers you’ve been battling against all four years). Plus there’s usually free food, and the Clog certainly can’t argue with that.
Posted by Jill Cowan on Sunday, April 20, 2008 01:17 pm
It’s time to start planning! For those of us who still have time left to do here at Berkeley, it means it’s time to check Bearfacts before you miss your Tele-Bears appointment (oh, evil of evils), and it’s probably about time to figure out where you’re going to live next year. But for those lauded elite–graduating seniors–it’s time to stop drinking on weeknights and figure out what’s next.
What does that entail? Well, the Berkeley News Center headed to the Grad Fair to find out “What’s left to do and what’s after Cal?” And for most people they talked to, the answer was school, school, some work, and more school. The majority of students surveyed said they were going to grad school, and saw finals as their last hurdle before they graduate and move on–to a masters. Way to stave off the headfirst plunge into that adult version of Never Neverland, “the real world,” for just a few more years, Seniors.
We wish you the best of luck in your future endeavors, and lots more dollars (and a better economy) for every extra diploma you earn. No, but seriously, we do.
Posted by Patrici Flores on Tuesday, April 08, 2008 11:26 am
There’s no doubt that hundreds of busy, graduating seniors have no idea what the hell they’re supposed to be doing right now in terms of buying caps, gowns and all that other goodness. At least, the Clog doesn’t have any idea. Then again, we’re the kind of people without feelings–the ones who just wanna snatch the degree and go without subjecting ourselves to a ritual that evokes the thorny pain of retrospect and the even thornier pain of not knowing what to do with our lives.
But thanks to the Senior Class Council, we can’t avoid that pain forever! Yes, the council will host a myriad of events all this week to make it easier for disorganized seniors to get it together and hopefully bond with the other thousands of graduates who will clog up the Greek Theater come May 13.
So now you’re graduated. Or you’re on track to graduate in, like, five years. So after being a super senior, what the heck are you going to do with the rest of your life?
US News and World Report released a report on the best careers for those carrying a bachelor’s degree. And English majors won’t be living in cardboard boxes after all.
The top highest-paying careers are as follows:
bq. 1. Management Consultant – $96,245 – Bachelor’s in Business
bq. 2. Fund Raiser – $78,902 – Bachelor’s in Business
bq. 3. Actuary – $75,062 – Bachelor’s in Accounting
bq. 4. Engineer – $72,156 – Bachelor’s in Engineering
bq. 5. Systems Analyst – $70,438 – Bachelor’s in Computer Science
bq. 6. School Psychologist – $63,029 – Bachelor’s in Psychology
bq. 7. Registered Nurse – $59,046 – Bachelor’s in Nursing
bq. 8. Editor – $52,443 – Bachelor’s in English
bq. 9. Landscape Architect – $49,974 – Bachelor’s in Architecture
Of course, you can earn more being, say, a doctor or a lawyer. But those careers involve more than a bachelor’s. One would hope.
But if you’re pretty much done with school effing you over, that there list is your guide to the top-dollar life of a college grad.
Yeah, only if you could get into Haas.
Best Careers 2007 [US News and World Report]
Highest Paying Jobs for Bachelor’s Degree Grads [Education Nation]
Finals start tomorrow, but some students only have their eyes on the prize: graduation. Are you ready to get the heck outta Dodge?
Today, the Daily Cal presents its Graduation Issue, chock-full of various Danny Glover jabs, including the illustration pictured at the right. The Clog brings you the featured articles along with our top picks. In case, you know, you don’t want to read any more about rhotacism, metathesis and allomorphy. Whatever that means. We’re supposed to know this crap by now.
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You may have been too stressed out of your mind to notice that, while you were stalking angrily to your finals on Thursday and Friday, you were ruining family photos on Upper Sproul Plaza or in front of the Campanile. Yes, there is a reason for the sudden rash of people taking cheesy pictures … and that reason is 
Secretary of Energy Steven Chu—former director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and professor at UC Berkeley—will be Caltech’s commencement speaker this year. 
To confirm our worst fears/what we already know, the Chron ran an article today about 
Craig Newmark, the founder of 
There’s no doubt that hundreds of busy, graduating seniors have no idea what the hell they’re supposed to be doing right now in terms of buying caps, gowns and all that other goodness. At least, the Clog doesn’t have any idea. Then again, we’re the kind of people without feelings–the ones who just wanna snatch the degree and go without subjecting ourselves to a ritual that evokes the thorny pain of retrospect and the even thornier pain of not knowing what to do with our lives.
So now you’re graduated. Or you’re on track to graduate in, like, five years. So after being a super senior, what the heck are you going to do with the rest of your life?
Finals start tomorrow, but some students only have their eyes on the prize: graduation. Are you ready to get the heck outta Dodge?