Join the CalStuff Team!
With my impending graduation, I realized that I have been remiss in not working to find some new blood to keep CalStuff alive and vibrant in the coming years. CalStuff has been around for a number of years and has played an active and important role in campus activities. Here are a couple of brief responses for people considering blogging:
Who can do this? Anyone! As far as technical skills are concerned, anyone who can send e-mail and use Microsoft Word is overly qualified to blog. Kevin, myself, Allen, Ben, and any of the other CalStuff bloggers have all been remarkably different people, and there are not any set of skills that you need in order to blog.
Why should you do this? Blogging is an amazingly rewarding experience. Writing a blog can help you make friends (and enemies!), get interviewed by reporters for articles about Berkeley, get a job, become a better writer, become a more knowledgeable person, play and active role in campus politics, have your opinions read by as many as a thousand unique people each week, and much much more.
If you are even remotely considering giving bloggin a shot (and why wouldn’t you be?) please leave a comment here with a way we can reach you or e-mail us at calstuff [at] gmail [dot] com.
I’m definitely interested
Comment by Joshua May — April 23, 2006 @ 3:46 pm
Blogging is fun. With a camera, even more so. My only warning is it has the ability to expand and fill all your time.
Comment by Chris Page — April 23, 2006 @ 4:06 pm
Plans post-graduation?
Comment by Anonymous — April 23, 2006 @ 6:31 pm
Next year, I’ll be working in St. Louis doing Jewish programming at the Washington University Hillel.
Comment by Andy R. — April 23, 2006 @ 6:43 pm
Don’t let CalStuff die.
Comment by Old Balls — April 23, 2006 @ 6:56 pm
Washington University is in St. Louis? That’s screwed up.
Comment by Beetle — April 23, 2006 @ 7:29 pm
damn my email didnt show up earlier
joshlmay@berkeley.edu
Comment by Joshua May — April 23, 2006 @ 7:34 pm
Oh, give it to me! You know I can be trusted!!!
Comment by Beetle — April 23, 2006 @ 7:48 pm
You’re going to St. Louis? AWESOME! What drew you there?
You must eat at City Diner on Grand Ave., and go to Soulard market, and the farmer’s market near Wash U, and visit Forest Park (way better than Golden Gate Park), and listen to NPR droning on with announcements from “Left Bank Books in the Central West End”, and SO MUCH MORE!!…
I guess you can tell I love St. Louis.
Comment by Jim Fung — April 23, 2006 @ 9:01 pm
Correction: The City Diner (used to be called the South City Diner when I was in St. Louis for a summer internship six years ago) is on Grand Blvd, not Grand Ave. I guess there is no Grand Ave.
After a couple weeks, you will really fall in love with St. Louis if you aren’t familiar with it already ….
Ah, the supermarket chain is called Schnucks. I mean, how cool is that?
Besides all the stuff I mentioned already, there’s also Ted Drewes (custard).
Even the street names are so cool — Linden. Kingshighway. Natural Bridge. Florissant. Manchester. Chouteau. Russell. Tower Grove. Gravois.
St. Louis = Heartland = BEST PLACE IN THE USA
Comment by Jim Fung — April 23, 2006 @ 9:05 pm
Paid for by the St. Louis Tourism Board.
Comment by Beetle — April 23, 2006 @ 9:11 pm
The politics are pretty good too. The city itself is very Democratic — both north St. Louis (which is predominantly African-American) and south St. Louis (which is predominantly working-class Irish and Italian, at least traditionally). There’s strong neighborhood spirit in the city.
If you don’t end up living in the actual city of St. Louis, then the surrounding county, St. Louis County, is also reasonably Democratic or at least competitive. But St. Charles County is Republican.
The city also has a very gay-friendly area on South Grand Blvd., which is also a bit of an international area. This is near where the City Diner is, which I said you must go to.
Oooh, I haven’t even mentioned the Arch or the Metrolink yet. St. Louis!!!
On the down side, if you’ve never seen block after block of abandoned houses, north St. Louis might be a bit of an eye-opener. There’s a sense that the city is ignoring that area. But the neighborhood spirit remains there, and the people are A+!
Comment by Jim Fung — April 23, 2006 @ 9:13 pm
LOL, Beetle, about the Tourism Board comment.
… Sorry, I totally hijacked this comment thread about taking over CalStuff. I’ll stop. Now.
Comment by Jim Fung — April 23, 2006 @ 9:14 pm
I hear that St. Lou has some bangin’ hookers.
Comment by Anonymous — April 23, 2006 @ 11:43 pm
You could just have the CalStuff.com domain point to Res Ipsa Loquitur from now on…
[kind of like having CNN.com forward to FoxNews.com?]
Comment by BCR Boy — April 24, 2006 @ 5:47 am
hey andy…you actually have met me various times via darryl (im normally hiding from your camera)…anyway. i start law school at WashU in the fall. they have an INSANELY large jewish community in their professional and grad programs too…and when i went to admitted students day at the end of march they had a giant matzo ball announcing activities for passover.
Comment by steph — April 24, 2006 @ 1:07 pm
You two are gonna love the Loop, I swear. Loop > Telegraph.
Comment by Jim Fung — April 24, 2006 @ 2:09 pm
i visited the loop and was like…its telegraph ave..a little trendier…but without the homeless! OMFGBBQ!
Comment by steph — April 25, 2006 @ 3:00 pm
im interested
Comment by alex — April 25, 2006 @ 7:46 pm
I despise Jim Fung.
Comment by grand ayatollah anonymous — April 25, 2006 @ 8:53 pm
compatibly databases crossed.kids:adored Northfield .
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