An Ode to the I-House Fireplace | Part Two of A Series of Odes to the Little Things of I-House that make it so Largely Special Ode No.2 | An Ode to the I-House Fireplace Walking through the Great Hall one may have … Continue reading
To kick off the new year, we’d like to share with you a summary of activity on our blog, I-House: Where UC Berkeley Meets the World. Here’s an excerpt: This blog was viewed about 17,000 times in 2014. The busiest … Continue reading
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The 2014 I-House All-Staff Holiday Luncheon Celebration took place on December 17 in the Chevron Auditorium. This year, the invitation list more than doubled due to the administration’s decision to add our RAs, student workers and limited staff with a … Continue reading
Revisiting International House Berkeley, 50 years later Letter From I-House alumna, Mely G. Tan Mely G. Tan, from Jakarta, Indonesia, received her Ph.D. in Sociology at UC Berkeley in 1968. She lived at International House from Fall 1964 through Spring … Continue reading
Bonjour ! Today is December 1st and the start of the holiday season! This comes with the eternal question: what gifts should I give? Being a photographer, I have found that prints of photos that I took are always thoughtful … Continue reading
This post is written in Dutch, my native language. See English translation below. (Deze blog is oorspronkelijk geschreven voor de website van mijn universiteit in Nederland, http://cursor.tue.nl/) Het land van vrijheid en onbegrensde mogelijkheden. Het land waar groter bijna altijd … Continue reading
What’s all the fuss around an enormous roasted turkey, countless bowls of sides, mashed potatoes and a sweet, very tart cranberry sauce? It’s what I-House residents who are part of our Host Family Program are going to discover next Thursday, … Continue reading
Dear Ms. Chang, we are pleased to inform you that you have a place at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Term begins on the 21st of August. We await your owl no later than the 31st of July. … Continue reading
To read this blog post in English, click here: One world under one roof Yo recuerdo que me levantaba y absorbía como una esponja del jet lag de toda la casa. Yo recuerdo que bajaba al refectorio. Yo recuerdo que me sentaba … Continue reading
Globalization is a loaded word with many different connotations and interpretations of its consequences. While some people believe that Globalization is diluting world cultures while intensifying disparities in wealth and power, others believe that Globalization is “flattening” disparities and infinitely … Continue reading
I-House: Where UC Berkeley Meets the World 