Travel Log 2017: Exploring UC Berkeley For Less Than One Hour

On July 23, I explored UC Berkeley with my family. Unfortunately, we were there for less than an hour because we were not able to find lunch food on the UC Berkeley campus.

UC Berkeley (University of California, Berkeley) is a public research university located in Berkeley, California. It was founded in 1868 and is the oldest of the ten research universities affiliated with the University of California system. UC Berkeley is often cited as one of the world's leading research universities affiliated with the University of California system. In fact, it is the top public university in the United States.



This picture above is UC Berkeley's Sather Tower, which is UC Berkeley's most recognizable symbol. The Sather Tower is a clock tower with clocks on its four faces, and it was built in 1914 and opened to the public in 1917. It is also known as The Campanile because it looks like the Campanile di San Marco in Venice, Italy. The Sather Tower is the third-tallest bell-and-clock-tower in the world. There is even a bronze bust of Abraham Lincoln on the south side of the Sather Tower.



This picture above shows me at South Hall, the oldest building on the UC Berkeley campus. It was built in 1873 and is the only remaining building of the original UC Berkeley campus. I didn't go inside South Hall, as it is probably closed for the summer. There are classrooms inside South Hall, 202 South Hall and 210 South Hall. The classrooms have reconfigurable tables and chairs and built-in large-screen projectors and audio.



This picture above shows me standing in front of the Sather Tower. The Sather Tower is really tall (307 feet), which is why the top part of the Sather Tower is not shown in this picture.

Overall, exploring UC Berkeley has been a pretty nice experience, and I wish I was there for a longer amount of time.