Achievements (UCB)

Classes

Overachiever: take an upper-division course during your first year (EA105 — great class)
(Under)Graduate: take at least one graduate-level course as an undergraduate (CS264; technically History 200X)
Pass / No Pass: take a class P/NP or P/F
Pass / Pass: skip a final because you’re going to pass anyway
Oops: sleep through a final
Dedicated Student: complete four years without skipping class except for illness or injury
Devoted Student: complete four years without skipping class, period
Lazy Student: attend less than half of the lectures of a class you still passed
“Sick”: skipped class to play a game, attend a concert, etc.
Triage: skipped class to work on something for a student group, for work, or for another class
Trilingual: complete a year of classes for two different languages (Mandarin and Japanese) ← this does not actually make me trilingual
PNH: pass a class taught by Paul Hilfinger (CS164)

Academic Administration

Cap and Gown: graduate
Minor Achievement: complete a minor (Linguistics)
Dual Degrees: complete a double major (off by about a semester)
Triple Trial: complete a triple major
No Cat Videos: complete a quadruple major
Exploration: change your major or intended major at least twice (I’ve been CS all four years)

Berkeley Experience

Take an Interest: spend at least twenty minutes talking to a street person (I meant to)
These Colors Don’t—oh wait: accidentally dye your white clothes doing laundry
Apparently It’s Just “Glockenspiel” In German: play the carillon (campanile bells)
Small Fish: attend your college’s general commencement (everyone else will get this besides L&S…)
Didn’t Need to See That: participate in the pre-finals “naked run” through the libraries
Superb Show: attend a Sproul concert (most of which Superb runs)
Superb Movie: attend a free movie screening (most of which Superb runs)
For the Children: do volunteer work with children for at least a month
Hail to California: get hailed on
Uh, Professor: correct a professor (in or out of class) (people who’ve been in classes with me know I’ve done this in probably every class I’ve taken)
Apprentice Printer: learn how to use a printing (hand)press (History 200X)
Free Speech Movement: participate in a protest
Flash Games: participate in a flash mob (Sproul Plaza freeze, twice!)
The Most Hated People On Campus: flyer on Sproul Plaza
Sandwich Board: attach an advertisement to yourself or your backpack for an entire day (chorale shows, TR shows)
Special Delivery!: deliver grams of any kind (UCCE valentine grams)
Double-Booked: get kicked out of a room you had booked or kick someone out of a room you had booked
Triple-Booked: get kicked out of a room after kicking someone else out or get kicked out of a room, and the people who you kicked you out get kicked out
When You Left, I Was But The Learner: be a judge or facilitator for a high school competition, like Speeh & Debate or Model UN

Academic Extracurriculars

Infosessions: join HKN, UPE, IEEE, or TBP
cowsay: join the CSUA
Research Complete: work on a research project with a professor or grad student
(U)GSI: become a TA
Teach Me How To Dougie: TA for the same class four semesters in a row
Outstanding GSI Award: receive the Outstanding GSI Award!
Substitute Teacher: give a lecture filling in for the professor (not just a presentation)

Locations

How Do You Pronounce It Anyway?: visit the top of the campanile
C Isn’t Actually For “Christine”: visit the Big C
Now You’re A Man: take the manly route up to the Big C
Fire It Up: hike on the Fire Trail
You Just Need To Be A Little Boulder: visit Indian Rock
Jump the Creek: jump across Strawberry Creek to get to/from class
Skywalker: cross the bridge between Cory and Sutardja Dai. (Face it, the one between LeConte and Birge is much less cool.)
Soda Can: visit all seven floors of Soda Hall (missing floor 1)
Most Confusing Building On Campus: find the hidden coffeeshop in Dwinelle (is it even still there?)
Steampunk: explore the forbidden steam tunnels (they’re alarmed, guys…)
Like Being a Kid Again: ride the giant slide in Codornices park
“Rapid Transit”: ride BART

Lodging

Default Housing: live in the dorms for a year
Reluctant: stay in the dorms for two consecutive years
Comfort Zone: live in the dorms all four years
Discipline: get written up while living in the dorms
Locally International: live at International House
Greek Life: live at a fraternity or sorority house
All for One: live in a co-op (coop? coöp?)
2 Lazy 2 Move: stay in the same apartment for two consecutive years
Out of Town: commute from home for at least one semester

Food

Cheeseboard: eat Cheeseboard pizza
Ici: eat Ici ice cream
Thai Temple: eat at Wat Mongkolratanaram (Sunday brunches)
Sumo Grub: eat at Sumo Grub
Sufficient Grounds: eat at Sufficient Grounds (now closed)
Chez Panisse: eat at Chez Panisse
Fentons Challenge: complete the Fentons Challenge
Bowl: shop at Berkeley Bowl
“Dependably Mediocre”: eat at all four dining commons (Foothill, Clark Kerr, Crossroads, and Cafe 3)

Time and Space

Soda Pop: spend the night in Soda Hall (CS164)
Dwin-hell: spend the night in Dwinelle Hall (they kick you out now)
Closing Time: get kicked out of a building when it closes (libraries, Dwinelle)
Jack Bauer: pull a true all-nighter for school or work (24 hours awake)
Santa Monica Boulevard: stay at a party until dawn
All Natural: complete four years at Berkeley without a single energy drink
Benny Hill: enter one building, leave another (Etcheverry/Soda, Doe/Moffitt, Pimentel/Latimer)
Can UC Me?: visit a friend at any other UC (I did visit Stephanie at UOP, though)
International: study abroad (tourism doesn’t count…but if you’re from outside the US you get this just by studying at Berkeley)

Sports

Pac-10: attend a football game in Memorial Stadium
Tightwad: watch a football game from Tightwad Hill
Also Pac-10: attend an inter-collegiate game other than football
Cal Spirit: attend every football game in a semester
Just For Fun: join an intramural sports team
True Cal Spirit: join the Rally Committee
College Brochure: play frisbee on Memorial Glade
College Brochure Closeup: play frisbee on Memorial Glade with at least two women and two men, where everyone has a different ethnicity, and everyone is wearing a different color shirt. Or a Cal shirt.

Nightlife

Sleepover: sleep at someone else’s place (besides a girlfriend/boyfriend)
GRSSK: visit a fraternity or sorority house
Yeah, Brah!: go to a fraternity or sorority party
Initiation: join a fraternity or sorority
Fake ID: get into an over-18 or over-21 venue before you’re the right age
Nightlife: go to a bar or nightclub (not just to eat)
My Liver Hates Me: throw up after drinking too much (cause I don’t drink at all)
Only Technically Illegal: get high on marijuana
Druggie: cocaine, LSD, etc.
Brawl: get in a fight (it was close one night, though)
Good Friend: get someone home who’s not sober
Hackathon: participate in an overnight coding contest

Creativity

NaNoWriMo Winner: write a 50,000 word story in a month (2007 and 2008!)
Artistic License: write something every day for a month (twice!)
Johann: write an original song
Mash It Up: make an original mashup (up to six)
Cover Me: make a song cover or parody (“Math 1B”, “To Evaluate”, “The Tower” (with UC Chorales Auxiliary), “Let Go”, and, uh, “I’m Gary Oak”. Plus a lot that are just lyrics and not actually recorded.)
Prime Director: make a movie (Door Open, “Math 1B”, Windup, “In the Creases”, “Let Go” (kinda), “Time”)
“Published Author”: get a story published online (…even if I helped run the magazine…)
Starving Musician: buy a new instrument (I wanted a glockenspiel)
It Just Takes Practice: learn to play a new instrument

Performance

Cultured: attend a culture show
Actually Cultured: perform in a culture show
With Their Mouths: attend an a cappella show
Audience Member: attend any theater performance with students
Traveling Show: attend any on-campus theater performance without students
Devoted Fan: attend concerts for the same (off-campus) artist at least three times (Vienna Teng, of course)
On Stage: join any performance group on campus
Octaves: join one of the small a cappella groups (closest I came was the Chorales Auxiliary and Musical Improv)
Triple Threat: join three of the small a cappella groups (Stacy…)
Blow the Pitch: start a small a cappella group (Lily…)
Center Stage: get chosen for a solo or lead role (UCMC’s “Officer Krupke”, TR’s From Rejection to Inception)
The Space Where Singers Perform Space: sing in front of Sather Gate (UCMC, TR’s The Honeymooners)
The Playhouse: perform in Zellerbach playhouse!
ICCA(ssistant): volunteer at ICCA four years in a role (missed last year because of Avenue Q…at least I still saw the show. But all three years I was host for UCSC’s Cloud 9!)

Theatre Rice

Big Circle: four consecutive semesters in Theatre Rice (Fa09-Sp11)
Closing Circle: eight consecutive semesters in Theatre Rice
Summer of Rice: perform in Summer of Rice
Tech and Transitions: perform in a GM troupe (three times, once as director)
Unscripted: perform in an Improv troupe (external, MI)
Oatmeal: perform in a One Act troupe
Sketch: perform in a Comedy Troupe
On Film: perform in a Film troupe (directed it!)
Authority Figure: be in Theatre Rice’s Committee (tech coordinator, Fa10)
Executive Decision: be in Theatre Rice’s ExComm
Director: direct a troupe
Stepping Up: direct a troupe during your first semester
Director Extraordinaire: direct at least half of the troupes you were in. (I’m off by one, but Jon made this one, even counting Fa11)
Third Time’s The Charm: work with someone three shows in a row (Abby)
You Again?: work with someone four shows in a row
You Can Join Us: make an infosession video
I’m On Flyer: make a flyer design that’s chosen for the show
Asian Ghetto: hang out with TR at the Durant Food Court after a regular TuTh meeting
Monster Pic: take a picture with Patricia in her monster makeup (Sp10)
“Jason? Jason!”: be in a troupe with Jason ← I know, this isn’t fair, but I’ve wanted to be in a troupe with Jason pretty much since we joined. Maybe since Twicknam.

Achievements

chigaijin @ UCB

Classes

Academic Administration

Berkeley Experience

Academic Extracurriculars

Locations

Lodging

Food

Relationships

Time and Space

Sports

San Francisco

Nightlife

Creativity

Performance

UCCE

Campus MovieFest

Theatre Rice

Programming Randomness