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Back in Spring of 2020, after the school went remote, I moved back to my hometown of Salinas, California. I settled into the room that I grew up sharing with my sister, and on our bedroom door hung a poster with a CSU system logo.

Construction has begun on a 772-bed, apartment-style housing project for UC Berkeley transfer students that is being designed, built and funded by the Helen Diller Foundation

February is Black History Month, making it a time to celebrate achievements by Black people and recognize the significant roles they have had, and continue to have, in history. We asked students active in Cal’s Black community to discuss their experiences in different organizations and share their insights about the Black community at UC Berkeley.

Since 2014, Big Give — the university’s annual fundraising blitz — has inspired the campus community to make Berkeley moments possible. What’s a Berkeley moment? It’s a moment of realization that could only happen in this extraordinary learning environment; a moment of connection between two researchers from disparate disciplines collaborating for the first time; or a moment of recognition between two alums from different decades. Really, it’s any moment when your blue and gold rise up to make you proud!

My transition and time here at Berkeley, both online and in-person, cannot be possible without an energizer. I’m not talking about an energizer that can keep me awake all day, I’m talking about an energizer that fuels me through the semester, through the spaces where I fail to find people who look like me, through the spaces where all I hear is English and never Spanish.