#USC Berkeley

[godofglitter]

i need some place to document all the very cool things daily life throws my way so hey i'm back.

Image: Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru's address to a throng of UC Berkeley and USC students, October 1949. Credit: Truman Library

This picture was taken at the historical William Randolph Hearst Greek Theatre, and the stage is the same stage I walked when I graduated this May from Cal. Even after four years amongst Nobel Laureates and inventors and revolutionaries I will never stop being amazed by the true extent of Berkeley's place in history. Go Bears. Jai Hind.

[sheswaynat]

Cal vs USC 🏈

[memecucker]

So people protested on the field of a Berkeley vs USC game and it turns out has nothing to do with Palestine (like many assumed) but is instead was about students protesting to reinstate a Berkeley professor who repeatedly stalked and harassed a UC Davis professor (including leaving graffiti at his mothers house) and it’s just so.. bizarre? Like this professor seems to literally have a cult following like she’s doing the generic “I was hacked” excuse and there’s students that just believe her bc they like her?

In an interview with KQED, del Valle acknowledged some of the behavior described in the investigative reports, including keying Clover’s car, vandalizing the area outside his apartment door, contacting his friends, posting an image of his partner online and leaving messages outside the home of his mother. Those messages included one that said “I raised a psychopath,” according to the university’s investigative reports. She has also acknowledged in the report calling Clover’s office phone line at least ten times within 90 minutes.

Throughout each official investigation, del Valle maintains that her actions were the result of being hacked, and that she was not receiving the support she needed.

“I did write outside his door, ‘Here lives a pervert.’ I did that. And again, I’m not proud,” del Valle said. “If I had the opportunity to do things differently, I would do them differently.”

Del Valle said that she regretted visiting the mother’s home, but disagreed that the message towards Clover’s mother was a threat or that any of her behavior was sexual harassment.

Throughout each official investigation, del Valle maintains that her actions were the result of being hacked, and that she was not receiving the support she needed.

She hasn’t even been fired?!? She is choosing to not accept an 18 month suspension and thus would prefer to be fired?? Literally just don’t stalk, harass and vandalize someone’s stuff?

Del Valle said since the suspension in the fall of 2021, she has not been teaching at UC Berkeley and has been living out of two suitcases because of the uncertainty around her future. She said she could accept an 18-month suspension UC Berkeley offered as a settlement, but has no plans to do so. If she doesn’t accept that outcome, the case could instead be brought before the university’s Privilege and Tenure Committee, and she could lose her tenure and be fired.

“My life is completely destroyed,” del Valle said. “I don’t want UC Berkeley to think that they can do this to a minority woman in order to protect a white, senior professor. It’s not acceptable.”

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Students are massed peacefully on campus, making politically charged demands on university presidents. The police are summoned, leading to mass arrests and even to violence — and to the collapse of confidence in the administration. You may see the punchline coming: This picture isn’t drawn from USC and Columbia University of the present day, but Berkeley in 1964. The lessons should be obvious. Bringing police onto a college campus on the pretext of preserving or restoring “order” invariably makes things worse. It’s almost always inspired not by conditions on campus, but by partisan pressure on university administrators to act. Often it results in the ouster of the university presidents who condoned the police incursions, and sometimes even in the departure of the politicians whose fingerprints were on the orders. In other words, nobody wins. Perhaps in recognition of the astonishing ignorance of college administrators of their own responsibilities, the American Civil Liberties Union last week issued a succinct guide on how to fulfill their “legal obligations to combat discrimination and ... maintain order” without sacrificing the “principles of academic freedom and free speech that are core to the educational mission.” [...] The ACLU cautions that “inviting armed police into a campus protest environment, even a volatile one, can create unacceptable risks for all students and staff.” Its statement points to the history of excessive force wielded by law enforcement units against “communities of color, including Black, Brown, and immigrant students.... Arresting peaceful protestors is also likely to escalate, not calm, the tensions on campus — as events of the past week have made abundantly clear.” [...] The history of campus protests suggests that they generally appear more threatening and disruptive on the spot than they prove to be over time. Strong, “decisive” responses almost always backfire. [...] They don’t care a hoot about the “safety” of students, or about the rise of antisemitism nationally, or about hurtful rhetoric emanating from the tent colonies on campus, which they claim to be their concerns. Instead, they’re trying to exploit what appears to be a violent situation to pursue their larger campaign to demonize higher education — in fact, education generally — by softening it up for the imposition of right-wing, reactionary ideologies.

Michael Hiltzik at Los Angeles Times on the nationwide suppression of protests against Israel's genocide campaign on Gaza on college campuses by calling the cops to break them up (04.29.2024).

Michael Hiltzik's Los Angeles Times editorial on the campus protests against the Gaza Genocide is spot-on.

This quote is right-on: "Bringing police onto a college campus on the pretext of preserving or restoring “order” invariably makes things worse. It’s almost always inspired not by conditions on campus, but by partisan pressure on university administrators to act."

[homo-sex-shoe-whale]

Shut up you dumb whore, we have no respect for you at all, you're just a dumb cunt that sells nudes, why would we respect you ? Tell me why we should respect you when you clearly have no respect for yourself. If you put yourself out there you better be ready for the backlash.

I don’t sell nudes. I’ve never taken a single nude picture of myself. But even if I did, there’s nothing wrong with selling nudes. Sex workers are people too, and they deserve respect. If you like porn, respect the people who make it for you.

I’m not dumb. I’m a chemistry student at UCLA. I got scholarships to USC and UC Berkeley. I have many bad qualities (see: conceited, stubborn, argumentative, impatient, jealous, apathetic, sadistic, etc etc) but dumb just isn’t one of them. If you’re going to insult me, at least pick an accurate insult?

I do respect myself. I respect myself a lot. In fact, I think of myself almost as a goddess. I think I’m worthy of being worshipped. I’m one of the most self-obsessed people I know. I’m so self-absorbed that when I have manic episodes some people don’t even notice the difference.

Y’all are free to insult me as much as you want, but at least throw insults that are TRUE.

[max--phillips]

Anyway I just saw a post saying that the protests here in the US are “taking away attention” from what’s actually happening in Gaza and “LARPing oppression” as if 1) the whole point of the protests is to put attention on Gaza and call for a ceasefire and 1.5) shows they’re exclusively getting their news from mainstream cable networks and 2) it’s not the fuckin media’s own fault they’re more interested in covering protests than the actual genocide, and 3) the students are somehow not facing oppression ???????

For one, what’s the solution here? Tell these students who feel very strongly (and rightfully so!) about this issue to just give up and go home? Who exactly does that benefit? Oh, right, the universities who are benefiting from this genocide, as well as the federal government. Good plan.

For two, I realize that the university at the center of this is an Ivy League school, and that the students who are there are privileged in many ways. However, that does not change the fact they are facing violence from the university and from police. That does not change the fact many of these students are Palestinian, Jewish, or other minorities. Beyond that, Columbia is not the only school where protests are happening. Emerson, USC, Yale, Harvard, MIT, Tufts, Cal Poly Humboldt, NYU, Vanderbilt, Brown, University of Michigan, UC Berkeley, Emory, Indiana University, Purdue, George Washington University, UCLA, Northeastern, Ohio State, UT Austin, Arizona State, Washington University St Louis, Cornell, University of Pennsylvania, Stanford, University of Georgia Athens, Sonoma State, San Francisco State, Sacramento State, University of Washington, Virginia Tech, Princeton, University of Minnesota, UConn, USC, University of Illinois, University of Utah, McGill, Portland State, UNC Chapel Hill, Tulane, University of Florida Gainesville, University of Colorado Denver, Case Western Reserve, City College of New York, Rutgers, Johns Hopkins, University of Maryland College Park, Barnard College, Pomona College, DePaul, Georgetown, University of Delaware, University of Arizona, University of New Mexico, University of Wisconsin, Virginia Commonwealth University, Oberlin, UC San Diego, University of San Diego, and I’m sure many others have or are currently participating in protests. Many of these schools are not elite universities only the best of the best (or the most money) get in. For crying out loud, my ass got into Indiana University.

That begs another question as well. Yes, these students at Ivy League schools have privilege. How else would you prefer they use it? When one has privilege, it is imperative to utilize it for the benefit of those one has privilege over.

Anyway. Free Palestine. Defund the police.

“Taking away attention from what’s actually going on” this is like saying the university protests against the Vietnam War were taking away attention from what’s actually going on in Vietnam. (Which I’m realizing now was probably an actual talking point at the time, but sounds ridiculous now.)

[edwordsmyth]

Columbia, Yale, NYU, USC, UC Berkeley, MIT, Emerson, Tufts, The New School, Vanderbilt, UNC - Chapel Hill, UMich, Swarthmore, UMD, Cal Poly Humboldt, UMN - Twin Cities, Harvard, GWU, CUNY, Emory, UPenn, OSU, Princeton, IU Bloomington, Cornell, Northwestern, WashU, Brown, UCLA, FSU, CCNY, FIT, MSU, Rochester, UD, UNC - Charlotte, Rice, Pitt…

[beardedmrbean]

Before this column ends, we’ll get to the unmissable fact that anti-Israel, often antisemitic, protests are proliferating at what we amusingly choose to call our most “selective” universities—Columbia, Yale, New York University, Stanford, Berkeley. For the moment, add these North Face tent protests on $75,000-a-year campus quads to the sense among the American public that their country is running off the rails.

A list of the phenomena laying us low includes: wokeness, DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion), defund the police (a depressing subset of wokeness), conspiracy theories, head-in-the-sand isolationism and a self-centered political polarization typified—from left to right—by Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Cori Bush, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Matt Gaetz and Lauren Boebert.

Ironically this time of year is associated with hope, amid spring and college graduations—except at the University of Southern California, which, fearing trouble, canceled its commencement speakers and told honorary-degree recipients not to show up.

Setting silenced USC aside, a hopeful note one hears at college commencements is that the American system is self-correcting, that despite recurrent stress, it always rights itself. Opinion polls suggest few believe this anymore but—happy spring—it looks as if we may be on the brink of a real counter-revolt against the craziness.

Last week in the hopelessly gridlocked House, Republican Speaker Mike Johnson, facing threats to his job from the chaos caucus, cast his lot with the enough-is-enough caucus. The House passed bills to sustain allies in Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan. Congress isn’t dead—yet.

Blue states and cities that looked willing to collapse rather than defend their citizens have begun to push back against progressives’ pro-criminal and antipolice movements.

At the urging of Gov. Kathy Hochul, New York’s just-passed state budget includes measures to crack down on shoplifting. Assaulting a retail worker will be a felony. Larceny charges can be based on the total goods stolen from different stores. Progressives in the state’s Legislature opposed the measures. Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker, elected in January on restoring law and order (yes, it can be a Democratic issue), last week announced a plan to support policing in the most crime- and drug-plagued neighborhoods.

March seemed to be a tipping point. The hyperprogressive Council of the District of Columbia, in a city that had become an embarrassing carjacking hellhole, passed an array of anticrime measures. Oregon’s Legislature voted to reverse the state’s catastrophic three-year experiment with drug decriminalization. San Francisco voters approved two measures proposed by, of all people, Mayor London Breed, to ease restrictions on policing and require drug screening for welfare recipients. The results in Los Angeles County’s primary for district attorney strongly suggest progressive George Gascón will be voted out in November.

In all these places, the reversals by elected officials are driven by the prospect of voters’ turning them out of office. That is the U.S. political system trying to right itself.

In California, a safety coalition has collected about 900,000 signatures to reverse parts of Proposition 47, the state’s now-notorious 2014 decision to reduce some theft felonies to misdemeanors. This week, the U.S. Supreme Court’s conservative majority appeared sympathetic to overturning a Ninth Circuit decision that bars cities and towns from enforcing vagrancy laws. Though the case emerged from Grants Pass, Ore., which is trying to ban homeless encampments, about three dozen elected officials and organizations in California filed briefs arguing that the Ninth Circuit’s ruling made cleaning up the streets almost impossible.

News stories since the start of the year have noted that many private companies are rethinking policies on DEI, partly under legal pressure, such as the Supreme Court’s decision last year to strike down the use of race in college admissions.

Some in the corporate DEI movement thought they were immune to restraints. No longer. Companies are rediscovering that the constituency most needing inclusion is their customers. The loudest shot across the bow came last week, when Google fired 28 employees after some staged sit-in protests at its New York and California offices over a contract with Israel’s government. Google’s firing statement describes “completely unacceptable behavior.” No one saw that coming.

All this adds up to a nascent counter-revolt against America’s lurch toward self-destruction. The exception is elite U.S. universities. Their leadership has seen itself as answerable to no one and politically immune.

Robert Kraft, a Columbia grad and owner of the New England Patriots, said this week he will no longer give the school money “until corrective action is taken.”

If big donors ever regain control of these so-called selective schools, a suggestion: Firing the president won’t close the barn door. Instead, fire the admissions office. What a tragedy to think how many serious high-school students were rejected by Columbia, Yale and NYU, edged out by nonuseful idiots whose chosen major is the political structure of re-education camps.

Someone has to be a lagging indicator, and these schools are it.

Non-paywall link

[bearterritory]

#10 Cal Ousts #8 UCLA

Golden Bears Reach Pac-12 Final

OJAI – The 10th-ranked California women's tennis team overcame some adversity to defeat eighth-ranked UCLA 4-2 in Friday's Pac-12 Championship semifinal round, with Jessica Alsola clinching the victory over the conference's regular-season champion at Weil Tennis Academy. By eliminating the top seed, the Golden Bears (18-5) advanced to the final to play the winner of the Stanford - USC semifinal. UCLA (18-5) exits from the Pac-12 tournament, which they had been favored to win. Friday's semifinal was a rematch of a regular-season clash between the Bears and Bruins in which Cal prevailed 4-3 in Berkeley. Since then, UCLA went on to claim the Pac-12 Championship's top seed, while Cal, dealing with multiple injuries on the team and dropping three out of their last four matches, had slipped to fourth in the Pac-12. Cal trailed 1-0 after doubles, with UCLA clinching the point when Ahmani Guichard and Sasha Vagramaov edged Berta Passola Folch and Katja Wiersholm, 7-6(3), on court three. The Bears faced another challenge when the 44th-ranked Wiersholm – who clinched the regular-season win over the Bruins – became unavailable for singles.

But Cal didn't back down from having to win four times in singles to beat UCLA. The Bears won four of six first sets including on court one, at which the 52nd-ranked Valentina Ivanov topped the 25th-ranked Kimmi Hance 6-0, 6-2 to momentarily tie the match 1-1. The tie was short lived as Cal's 41st-ranked Hannah Viller Moeller fell to the 35th-ranked Tian Fangran 6-1, 6-1 on court one, giving UCLA a 2-1 advantage. Two of the younger Bears then stepped up, with sophomore Berta Passola Folch – who moved into the singles lineup with Wiersholm absent – topping Ahmani Guichard 6-3, 6-2 to knot the match at 2-2. Freshman Mao Mushika gave Cal a 3-2 lead when she beat Elise Wagle 6-4, 6-3.

The last two matches were both three-setters, and Alsola and Lan Mi each had chances to clinch the win for Cal. Ultimately Alsola triumphed first over Fernandez 3-6, 6-4, 6-2 to book Cal's spot in the final.

"It was a really good team victory just like yesterday," said Cal head coach Amanda Augustus, referencing Cal's 5-0 win over Arizona State in the Pac-12 quarterfinals. "We have trust in all of the players on the team, and everybody is committed to our goals. We're excited for the opportunity to play in the final. I'm especially proud today because doubles didn't go as we'd hoped. But everyone dug in on their courts in singles, and the Bears supported each other very well. We knew UCLA would compete very hard, and we rose to the occasion. "I'm excited this group will play in Libbey Park in the final Pac-12 championship match as we know it. We still have more to go in the postseason, but they've earned the right to play in this final." Added Alsola, "It doesn't matter who we play. We'll be just as ready tomorrow as we have been the past two days. We're just really excited and honored to play in the last final of the Pac-12 tournament." The final is slated for 2 p.m. PT on Saturday at Libbey Park, with the Pac-12 Network airing the match. Pac-12 Championship – Semifinal Round [4] No. 10 California (18-5) defeats [1] No. 8 UCLA (18-5), 4-2 April 26, 2024, in Ojai, Calif. Weil Tennis Academy

Doubles 1. No. 14 Tian Fangran/Elise Wagle (UCLA) vs. No. 18 Hannah Viller Moeller/Mao Mushika (Cal), 6-5 UNF 2. No. 50 Kimmi Hance/Anne-Christine Lutkemeyer (UCLA) def. No. 56 Jessica Alsola/Valentina Ivanov (Cal), 6-3 3. Ahmani Guichard/Sasha Vagramaov (UCLA) def. Berta Passola Folch/Katja Wiersholm (Cal), 7-6(3)*

Order of finish: 2, 3 *Clinched the doubles point for UCLA Singles 1. No. 35 Tian Fangran (UCLA) def. No. 41 Hannah Viller Moeller (Cal), 6-1, 6-1 2. No. 52 Valentina Ivanov (Cal) def. No. 25 Kimmi Hance (UCLA), 6-0, 6-2 3. No. 82 Jessica Alsola (Cal) def. No. 65 Bianca Fernandez (UCLA), 3-6, 6-4, 6-2 4. Mao Mushika (Cal) def. Elise Wagle (UCLA), 6-4, 6-3 5. Lan Mi (Cal) vs. Anne-Christine Lutkemeyer (UCLA), 6-2, 0-6, 5-5 UNF 6. Berta Passola Folch (Cal) def. Ahmani Guichard (UCLA), 6-3, 6-2 Order of finish: 2, 1, 6, 4, 3^ ^Clinched Cal's overall win

[ellewritesandrants]

Okay but what about a modern AU with Rockstar! Eddie who always shouts out his baby, doll, darling, etc. to the point where it becomes a running gag?

Maybe, it starts out with Billy getting into USC-Berkeley and Eddie dropping everything and convincing his band to come with them to California. They get there and unsurprisingly, they have a much larger audience. Billy was the one to get them the gigs when they first got to California, making Eddie always shout out his baby for helping them out with the gig or for inspiring their songs. They eventually go viral and they catch the eye of a recording label, landing them a deal.

Of course, even if they play bigger venues and have a legit manager, Eddie always manages to sneak in a dedication to his darling and light of his life and as they gain fans, so does the interest in the band members’ love life. Billy and Eddie had agreed early on that they wanted to keep Billy’s name out of public speculation for now because he was still finishing up his degree in social justice and he didn’t want to deal with the fame of being with a rockstar.

It doesn’t stop Eddie from gushing about his partner and his everything at every opportunity he gets and fans are simultaneously heartbroken and so in love with how Eddie was in love with his partner. There are legit compilations of his dedications on Youtube and everyone quickly learns the quickest way to get Eddie Munson to talk was to ask about his partner. Some superfans eventually would sleuth around and dig using the clues that Eddie would unknowingly leave them like them being highschool sweethearts and their blond haired and blue eyed appeal.

Somehow, they get the idea that it must be up and coming popstar Chrissy Cunningham since she’s also from Hawkins and she fits the criteria to a tee. Everyone thinks they’ve cracked the code until Chrissy is asked about it an interview and she laughs about it since she and Eddie had dated but they eventually realized they were a tad too different before breaking up and becoming good friends instead.

Chrissy was actually the one to introduce Eddie to her cousin who became the love of his life. Everyone is even more confused than ever but Eddie takes it all in stride, promising to reveal his partner in due time. He continues to dedicate each and every single performance to his muse and inspiration until one day, after Billy’s first proper tour with Corroded Coffin and his agreement to go public after his graduation, Eddie proposes to Billy on stage at the last stop of their tour in front of their friends and family.

Of course, Billy says yes and everyone wonders who the fuck he actually is. All of their friends and family start sharing stories about Billy, with the band members calling him Corroded Coffin’s biggest fan and secret ghostwriter and with their celebrity friends backing up about how much of a sweetheart Billy is, everyone soon falls in love with Billy the same way Eddie had.

It doesn’t help that Eddie immediately floods his Instagram, stories and his Twitter about his amazing partner and all that he’s had to keep secret with the world. He starts a countdown of their wedding from the day he proposed, always sharing one of the reasons he fell in love with Billy. They eventually get married and they adopt and foster a few kids but Eddie and Billy remain one of the most popular celebrity couples since they’re proof that love still exists.

Maybe I’ll come back later on and make this a proper fic because I have an idea leading up to the proposal so I can have Billy blushing with every dedication Eddie gives him and how Eddie yanked Billy onstage for the proposal in front of hundreds of thousands of people just so he could propose.

[ryan-sometimes]

my friend and i were talking about colleges today and she wants to go to UCLA. any words of advice for her? <- as silly or serious as you would like. i will show it to her

1. If you don’t get in, it has nothing to do with you. UCLA is very selective and there’s thousands of people who deserve to get in but don’t. There’s also many who don’t deserve to go here but do. I could’ve sent in the EXACT same application and gotten rejected. Luck is a huge factor in college admissions

2. It’s an AMAZING school for LGBTQ+ people! The campus is generally super accepting, and our university insurance covers everything trans care: from hormones to surgery! So many professors and TAs start off lectures and discussions sharing pronouns. I recently changed my name and my profs and TAs have all been so sweet about it.

3. The campus is very hilly and there’s a lot of stairs. There’s a reason we joke that UCLA stands for University of Calves, Legs, and Ass. Your first two or so weeks will be very harsh on your lower body. Just push through it

4. The quarter system is very fast paced. It’ll take a while to get used to

5. The academic environment is way less competitive than I anticipated for such an academically rigorous school. People love collaborating, making study groups, and sharing resources. Not a lot of classes are curved and so there’s not much reason to pray on the downfall of your fellow students

6. Get ready to shit on USC and UC Berkeley lol!

I could probably think of more but that’s just the stuff that came to me reading this anon

[eopederson2]

RIP Pacific 12!

Upper photo Sather Tower, University of California, Berkeley taken in 1969; lower entrance to Red Square with statue of George Washington, University of Washington, Seattle, 2016.

While I am not a sports fan, having strong personal (Washington, Cal and UCLA) and familial (WSU where my great-grandmother was one of the first graduates, my sister and her husband both graduated, and my niece earned her Ph.D.) ties to four of the schools in the conference, I am saddened to learn that the Pacific 12 has effectively disbanded. It was "the conference of champions," and far western intraregional competition, especially between the PNW and California, was a source of local pride and affiliation. The Rose Bowl was the culmination with the best team from the Pac 12 (earlier Pac 8) playing the best of the Big 10 resulting in matches like Washington against Michigan. When the Pac 12 won it was the highlight of the sports year. Of course in those years Seattle and Portland had no pro teams, and the pay rates for college coaches were much lower.

With UCLA, USC, Washington and Oregon joining the Big 10, that conference will extend coast to coast and include a large fraction of the big money college athletic programs. It includes a mixed bag of programs ranging from ones virtually always in the top positions in revenue sports to others of somewhat dubious prospects (as examples Rutgers or Northwestern). Whatever the cash value, there is likely to be little regional enthusiasm, at either end, for match ups like Oregon vs Maryland.

Academically the enlarged league is a mixed bag with second-rate state universities like Maryland and Rutgers against some of the best in the country. Left behind in the rump of the PAC 12 are two of the best universities in the country, Cal and Leland Stanford Junior University.

Among Marx's projections was the devolution of all human activity into realms of money and finance under the logic of monopoly capitalism. Tradition, sentiment and regional affiliation give way to cash as the value of everything becomes something measured only in money. The demise of the Pac 12 and the expansion of the more financially dominant Big 10 illustrates that perfectly.

[mischas]

you know if marissa wasn't killed off, they'd have to write a college season (considering they have nothing like a kid or marriage between the teens like oth did for them to jump into adulthood), and i dont know how thats gonna work.. like marissa and ryan would be in berkeley, seth's going to a different uni than summer (tho it's the same state i think), so really, i dont think josh even planned to go that far? idk whats your take if marissa wasnt killed?

Yeah, RISD and Brown are both in Providence, Rhode Island. I think the basic plan was to have SS be in Providence while RM were in Berkeley and just introducing new dramas in those college towns/environments. They'd have to fly in for Newport events that Julie/Kirsten throw and Sum/Coop would probably fly to be with one another every few months. The major beats of Thanksgiving/Passover/Chrismukkah/NYE could cover a few episodes if they went with the s1 outline. Maybe an episode in between where the core four gets into shenanigans like The Mallpisode or The LA. I have no idea if Josh had legitimate input in the college choices in s3 because we know he bounced for the majority of the season. It seems like RM (or at least one member of the core four) should've gone to school in LA for Newport-adjacent storylines. I think a twist could be that Marissa decides Berkeley isn't fitting and wants to transfer. Her choices are USC, NYU, and Brown if she can get her grades up and really good recommendation letters (she visited Sum for Homecoming and LOVED it). Which would cause tension with Ryan. RM aren't dating but they've hooked up a few times and are in the same friend group.

[lboogie1906]

Paula Maxine Patton (born December 5, 1975) is an actress and producer. She made her feature film debut in the 2005 comedy Hitch and has had starring roles in the films Déjà Vu (2006), Precious (2009), Just Wright (2010), Jumping the Broom(2011), Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol(2011), 2 Guns (2013), Warcraft (2016), and Sacrifice (2019). She was born in Los Angeles to Joyce, a schoolteacher, and Charles Patton, a lawyer. She graduated from Alexander Hamilton High School, and then started college at UC Berkeley, transferring to USC's Film School after her first year. She won a three-month assignment making documentaries for PBS. She provided additional vocals for Usher on his 2004 album Confessions. She provided the female vocal counterpart on the song "Can U Handle It?" which was co-written by Robin Thicke. She has songwriting credits on multiple Robin Thicke albums under the name "Max", derived from her middle name (Maxine). She appeared in Idlewild. She appeared in her "Lost Without You" video. In, an interview with Hot 97, she revealed on Ebro in the Morning that she ghostwrote with her ex-husband Robin Thicke under the name Max Haddington. She played television reporter Kate Madison in Mirrors. She married Robin Thicke (2005-2015), and they have one son. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence https://www.instagram.com/p/ClyYBQqrqxS/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[topguncortez]

Okay I’ve finished the Professor Jake series! Awesome 👏🏻 but I’m confused, did reader attend USC or Berkeley? It says both

Berkeley!

[sweetswesf]

I Found an Old Goals List...

...and it made me chuckle...

by each of the "Want to Be"s, I put who I knew was currently in that role...some names, I don't even recognize...How I feel today is in red...

Want to Be

Fundraiser

Owner of Microfinancing Philanthropist

Financial Infrastructure Engineer

Data Scientist

Product Director

Trader on Wall Street

Enterprise Saleswoman

App Owner/Business Owner/Entrepreneur/Mogul

Professor

Teacher

Author

Investment Banker

Fantasy

Actress

Dancer

DJ (Hannah Bronfman)

TV Host (Desus & Mero)

Tour Manager

Don’t Want to Be

Attorney

Real Estate Agent

Rapper

Singer

Scientist

Fitness Coach

Event Planner

Office Manager

Financial Advisor

Financial Analyst

5 Year Plan – 2017 - 2021 – 24 - 28 YO (6/13 complete)

Establish connections, gain industry experience (happened)

Complete my 1st Marathon – 2017 (happened)

Raise & Promotion @ L – 2017 (happened 2018)

Leave L – 2018 (happened 2022)

Visit Cuba - 2018 (didn't happen, lost my passport and fought w/my mom pretty badly over this one...)

Join Netflix w/ 6 figure salary – 2018 (hahahah)

Complete UC Berkeley data science program – 2018 (no longer a desire)

Make 1st trade on NYSE - 2018 (happened 2019)

Visit KT in Bangkok/Bhutan/Charles in Singapore – 2019

Visit Japan - 2020 (happened 2018)

Become Mid-level Finance Manager – 2021 (ahahhaah)

Earn CFA - 2021 (not a desire)

Visit Switzerland - 2021 (not a desire)

10 Year Plan – 2022 - 2026 – 29 - 33 YO

Visit Capetown - 2022 (2023...2022 is over this week, I don't think this finna happen...)

Return to work in NYC on Wall Street as Financial Infrastructure Manager – 2022 (no, but I did work in NYC in 2021...)

Finish the NYC Marathon - 2022 (don't care to anymore)

Learn basic conversational and reading in Japanese – 2022 (I tried in 2021...but other things were prioritized)

Visit Hong Kong - 2022 (with that air pollution & covid?? nahhh)

Harvard Business School funded by employer – 2023 (could happen...)

Visit Dubai/UAE/Mecca - 2023 (I don't care to go there anymore...human rights reasons...)

Work abroad in Italy, South Africa, Japan or London – 2024 (could happen...)

Visit Brazil – 2024

Visit Australia – 2025 

Visit Tahiti – 2026 

First child with natural birth – 2026 (yikes...unless my future husband has 8 figures, miss me with this one...)

Own NYC loft - 2026 (we shooting big here!...can happen...)

Get hired at T4 or T5 SWE position at my top choice company - 2023

Get a $180k+ base salary - 2023

Start dating a guy a like and who likes me - 2023

Move to a 1 bedroom in Manhattan or Brooklyn, New York - 2023

Master all the topics I want to before June 2023 - June 2023

Look like Tamara Prichett, Melanie Alcantara, Jade Cargill, or Massy Arias - 2024

Update my app to be on React - 2024

Mentor an intern engineer - 2024

Get a promotion - 2024

Staff engineer - 2025

Visit friends in Milan - 2023

15 Year Plan – 2027 - 2031 – 34 - 38 YO

Visit the Amazon – 2027 (don't really care to do this anymore)

Fundraise for my own app – 2027 (2028)

Go public with my company – 2031 (2037, MAYBE)

Get married to a really rich man (2026)

Move back in with grandparents to code for my app full time or live off of my really rich husband - 2027

35 Year Plan – 2032 – 2050 – 39 – 58 YO

Grow company

Tech Invest - 2040

Own home in NJ or NY - 2040

Retire – 2050 

40 Year Plan – 2051 – 2055 – 59 – 63 YO 

Become teacher in LA – 2051

41 Year Plan – 2056 - 2060 – 64 - 68 YO

Become USC Trustee

It could happen...I have to believe and work hard...