| 1 This classroom is in Haviland Hall, which is not too far from Tolman Hall (home of the ATDP). Sarah Herbold's First-Year Latin class might be inhabiting this classic college classroom this summer. The photo looks slightly weird like this because of a combination of the fluorescent lighting in the classroom and the harsh ambient backlighting. (Also, for you Photoshop freaks out there, some excessive "dodge-and-burn" swipes on the image...) |
| 2 Northgate Plaza is probably the least trafficked of the campus portals -- compared to Sproul Plaza which is diametrically across on the southside, or WestGate, near downtown Berkeley. The famous Top Dog hotdog stand is near here, sure to be popular with ATDP students with classes in nearby buildings: Giannini, Haviland, Tolman, Cory, Soda, Davis, et al. (In the hillock to the right background is a "haunted shack." Visit it this summer, if you dare...) |
| 3 This charming classroom is on the third floor of Giannini Hall (the top floor, as suggested by the quirky sloping ceiling.) The Math analysands, p.m. section, will be occupying this space. Students will be tempted to go out onto the balcony, joining the pigeons, squirrels and other local fauna, gazing down on passersby along lovely Giannini Green and the redwood-lined north fork of Strawberry Creek. |
| 4 The lawn outside of the Faculty Club, near the east fork of Strawberry Creek. Students in Birge, LeConte, Lewis, Latimer, Wurster and Kroeber Halls will be able to relax in this calm green heart of the campus, during class breaks. Nearby, look for an odd log cabin (not in the picture), which is the home of a secretive campus organization comprised of faculty and students, of which Chancellor Chang-Lin Tien is a member. |
| 5 The spartan innards of a classroom inside Evans Hall, likely home of Algebra 1 and Geometry students this summer. Evans is distinguished as the most monolithic building on campus -- all blocky 9 floors of it, its concrete facade completely unadorned by paint and color. Evans houses the Mathematics and Statistics departments, as well as part of Computer Science. Lucky ATDP math students may be able to encounter the stray Nobel prize or Fields Medal winner as they walk around this building (the Fields is the mathematical equivalent of the Nobel). Be sure to ask the Nobelist or Fieldster how to proceed on a math question you may be stumped over... |
| 6 Soda Hall incorporates AI (artificial intelligence) in it, believe it or not. It houses some Computer Science and Engineering departments, and was built specifically to be an integrated network structure: that is, all the workstations in all its rooms are networked into one giant computer brain. If you're familiar with the Hotbot search engine, Soda Hall is where it had its genesis. Among its AI features is microcontrol of climates in any given area inside the building; also, there's a web-savvy computer wall in the lobby, which will tell you most anything you need to know (or find) in the building. Prof. Harvey's Programming in Scheme students will call this "bathroom-tile-green" building their home this summer. |
| 7 That somewhat formal, odd long table with the hole in the middle is actually bolted to the floor. It is in a narrow room in Barrows Hall, and you students in Yoko Clark's Second-Year Japanese will be practicing your kanji to each other across the table this summer. The photograph was taken through the classroom door's window--it was locked at the time of my visit. To compensate for the spareness of this space, at least Sproul Plaza is nearby, and students can go there and people-watch during break. |
| 8 Forbidding and gloomy, this corridor shows Dwinelle Hall as it currently undergoes construction. ATDP students in writing courses will probably find themselves in the Dwinelle labyrinth come summertime. Even longtime Berkeley students and staff still find themselves lost in the maze that is Dwinelle. One is never sure if there are 3, 4 or 5 floors in Dwinelle, and each corridor leads off to strange and uncharted recesses of the building. At least, if you're late to class after the break, you will have a good excuse. Just say you got trapped in the Ishi Wing of the hall... your instructor probably won't know what you're talking about, and will pardon you for being egregiously late. Maybe. |
| 9 The beautiful Life Sciences Building as (very partially) seen through a haze of cherry blossoms. If you saw the movie "Junior," with Arnold Schwarzenegger, Danny de Vito and Emma Thompson, you'll find this scene familiar. LSB is where much of the film was shot. Ironically, the college campus was called "Leland University" (recalling Leland Stanford's farm, I'm sure). Jamie Marantz's Marine Biology students will be able to gawk at the complete T-Rex skeleton, menacingly posed at the entrance to the Museum of Paleontology, in the LSB basement. |