Campus Tour

Let’s have a look at what U.C. Berkeley’s main campus looks like. We enter the campus every morning via Telegraph Avenue (I’ll come back to this cool street in a later post – remember that you can follow via this map) and pass through this elegant gate:

We then turn right and pass by the campus’s main hallmark: an elegant tower with a carillon inside it:

This place is really no less than a beautiful park…

perfectly maintained…

with some really magnificent trees (my limited photographical skills didn’t allow me to fully capture the beauty here…):

Some places look like a real forest, including small streams of murmuring water:

Most buildings perfectly fit in the ‘park’, like the library:

and the Botany building:

Inevitably, right in the middle of the campus we find the American flag (especially for you, Eduardo) and below it the mascot of U.C. Berkeley (a bear, not visible in this picture):

Even a field of grass is suitable for some ‘PR’ (‘Cal’ is the common abbreviation for ‘University of California’ of which U.C. Berkeley is part – now you know at once what the ‘U.C.’ means):

And finally, there is ‘The Pomodoro Orb’:

Apparently, a couple of these things can be found all over the World and one of them happens to be here. I don’t have a clue why it should be here or what it signifies but it is a nice piece of art. Google can probably satisfy your curiosity should it be pressing (please do share your knowledge in the comments).

Want to take a look inside the lab? Keep reading the blog!