For those who are not UC Berkeley students or alumni, but are simply Cal fans or rising freshmen, you may be surprised to learn that not everyone uses dead week to study. Dead week is the common nickname for Berkeley\u2019s \u201cReading, Review and Recitation\u201d week \u2014 the week before finals with no class, so you can dedicate all of your time to study. Some students believe there is an unsaid fourth R \u2014 rest. They master that fourth R, taking their rest to new heights. Yes, I\u2019m talking about you, day trip-maxxers.<\/p>\n
Everyone spends their dead week differently to prepare them for the finals they\u2019re about to endure.<\/p>\n
The Home(town)body<\/p>\n
Even though it\u2019s the second-to-last week of the semester, you still manage to flee Berkeley and go home. You\u2019ll enjoy your favorite homemade meal while studying in your childhood bedroom, surrounded by your favorite stuffed animals. Or you just max out that fourth R for as long as you can, then come back to Berkeley for a few days to cram.<\/p>\n
Day trip-maxxer<\/p>\n
For you guys, this is the week to venture on all the day trips you wanted to do during the semester, but didn\u2019t have time. One day you\u2019re on the Golden Gate Bridge, and the next you\u2019re hiking Half Dome in Yosemite. You are the UC Berkeley adrenaline junkie getting it all out before finals suck the life out of you.<\/p>\n
Professional club tripper<\/p>\n
If you\u2019ve finished all of your club projects, you\u2019re on a flight to either Hawaii or Mexico for a few days to celebrate your hard work and hang out with your p-bros. While you\u2019re posting beach photos on Instagram, everyone else will be wishing they were there while stuck in the library.<\/p>\n
Main Stacker<\/p>\n
This is often the week UC Berkeley starts to feel more like the University of California, Berkeley. You\u2019re the stereotypical student who hasn\u2019t seen daylight in forever and is trying not to crash out about your data science, physics and math finals that you absolutely need to pass. Your butt has officially molded to that wooden chair, which you only get up from for the midnight scream to let out your frustration.<\/p>\n
Procrastinator<\/p>\n
This is your spring break 2.0, or simply an extra-long weekend. You may do a day trip or hang out with friends around Berkeley. You\u2019ll enjoy the good weather, deep clean your room or do laundry \u2014 literally anything to avoid studying. You might use the classic \u201cI need to hit the gym\u201d excuse or just sleep all day for seven days straight. Then the weekend before your finals start, you\u2019ll suddenly become a Main Stacker, wishing you had started studying sooner.<\/p>\n
In betweener<\/p>\n
If you\u2019re like me and don\u2019t have the attention span to study all day for five days, plus the extra four weekend days on either side, you want a good study-life balance. You may do a day trip one day, or chill by the pool on Clark Kerr Campus to maximize your tanning and studying time. You study a few hours, then decide you\u2019ve worked hard enough and treat yourself to some Yogurt Park.<\/p>\n
No matter how you decide to spend your RRR-R week, the best I can do is predict your habits and wish you the best of luck on your finals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For those who are not UC Berkeley students or alumni, but are simply Cal fans or rising freshmen,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293626,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[25213,119719,87756,143,145,144,47183,149,21343,118],"class_list":["post-293625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-clark-kerr-campus","tag-dead-week","tag-main-stacks","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-rrr-week","tag-uc-berkeley","tag-yogurt-park","tag-yosemite"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}