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% A section highlighting Berkeley students having fun, relaxing, or engaging in other hobbies unrelated to academics.

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\addcontentsline{toc}{section}{Graduate Life in Berkeley}
\section*{Graduate Life in Berkeley}
The grad students in our department like to enjoy the variety of things to do in the area such as skiing in Tahoe, hiking in the Berkeley hills, seeing shows in San Francisco and Oakland, hitting up local farmer's markets, and more.
We have a designated social e-mail list and a very active graduate-students-only Slack. There’s always something going on!

\subsection*{Hiking}

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Hikiing: 
\textit{(Top left)} Chris Keckler, April Novak, and fellow grad students from MIT visiting Mayan ruins between presentations at a conference in Mexico. 
\textit{(Top right)} Berkeley nuclear engineers hiking in the Lake Tahoe region. 
\textit{(Bottom left)} Emily Frame, Amanda Lewis, Mitch Negus, Franziska Schmidt, and Franziska's mattress on the rim of the Grand Canyon over spring break. 
\textit{(Bottom right)} Joey Kabel, Sami Lewis, and April Novak hiking at Pt. Reyes national seashore.


\subsection*{Skiing}

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Skiiing: 
\textit{(Top left)} Kathy Shield, Milos Atz, and Maria Simanovskaia skiing in style. 
\textit{(Top right)} Kathy Shield, Mitch Negus, and Joey Kabel challenging the rule that there are no friends on a powder day. 
\textit{(Bottom)} 2016 first year grad students after skiing at Sierra-at-Tahoe.


\subsection*{Spending Time with Friends}

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Friends: 
\textit{(Top left)} Berkeley graduate students enjoying beers at the Bay Area Brew Festival.
\textit{(Top right)} Emily Frame, Mitch Negus, Mauricio Ayllon, and Kathy Shield at Drake's in Oakland.
\textit{(Bottom left)} Kathy Shield, Dane DeWet, and Emily Frame at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk.
\textit{(Bottom center)} World famous Cheeseboard pizza, a Berkeley favorite.
\textit{(Bottom right)} Berkeley grads at the Oakland Women’s March.


\subsection*{Spending Time with Family}

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Family:
\textit{(Left)} Sandra Bogetic and her daughter, Caroline, at Pt. Reyes visiting the Elephant Seals.
\textit{(Right)} Maria Simanovskaia collecting White Chanterelle mushrooms with her family in Mendocino County.