I was an interning Engineer on the Great Highway in San Francisco when I was eighteen years old. I had just completed my first year of Civil Engineering at U.C. Berkeley, and donning boots and a hard hat was a welcome change to my word processing job that required typing 80 words a minute.
It’s Friday night and your favorite band is playing a show at downtown Oakland’s historic concert venue, The Fox. However, you forgot one small detail, where should you and your friends meet before the show?
With seniors in full application mode, now is the time to check that your essays and personal statements help you shine and stand apart from the crowd.
We first moved to Piedmont nearly 12 years ago, just as the bubble was bursting, and trust me we were freaked out! Along with our beautiful, but somewhat neglected house, we acquired a scary-big mortgage and a sizable project. But this was our dream—to take this house and make it our own.
They are, sometimes, the three worst words in the English language to hear. From the pilot when you’re stuck on the tarmac. From a doctor looking at your test results. From the person you just proposed to.
The entry point into the criminal justice system--and all of its tragic consequences for people of color--is the police stop, the crucial moment when the government and the citizen engage.