If you go in the first semester, it is strongly recommended to go at noon. Every day 12 o'clock, the south gate is an open-air cappella performance by students, and the whole Shanghai sproul is an exhibition, campaign and sales activity of student associations; If you are lucky, you can also see protests or speeches or performance art of all kinds of weirdos ... and look for a free circle, which is a circular plaque similar to a manhole cover. Like the fountain over there, it is the product of the freedom of speech movement in Berkeley in the 1960s. Standing on the central hole of the circle, you can speak freely and not be bound by the government.

2. Take a nap: Free Speech Campaign Cafe

The small cafe next to the undergraduate library was also built to commemorate the freedom of speech movement. Apart from the commemorative posters inside, the cafe itself is nothing special, but it is very energetic.

3. Art: Berkeley Museum of Art

One of the best university art galleries, there are often unexpected wonderful exhibitions; Zellerbach Concert Hall is a big theater with national performances. Greek Theatre: Basically, there are superstars coming to give concerts every weekend. You'd better check the information before you go.

4. Life Science Building, Valley Life Science Building

There is a huge dinosaur skeleton in the hall. By the way, you can look for statues of football players in the Woods over there, which were made to commemorate the victory of the first Stanford and Berkeley football games.

If the weather is fine and there is plenty of time, you can go to the Lawrence Science Museum on the mountain, and there is a huge cactus in the nearby botanical garden.

6. Nobel Prize: leconte Hall

The building of physics department, this department alone has produced 8 Nobel Prizes; Pay attention to find a sign nearby, which is a parking space for Nobel Prize-winning professors in Berkeley.

7. Library of the Department of Energy

The largest library in the school, above the entrance of the gate is a bust of Athena, in order to remind students of the importance of learning; East Asia Library Museum, a personal favorite library, is beautiful and elegant, and the bright floor-to-ceiling window is a forest. Speaking of East Asia, there is the newly-built Li Ka-shing Medical College Building of Li Ka-shing Architecture School, but the highlight is only the name of Li Ka-shing itself.

8. In the principal's office building of California Hall, students protested their favorite place. The highlight is that the gate has no handle, but it was removed to cope with the students' constant protests.

9. The most lost building: Dwinenell Hall.

Just next to the south gate, because the classroom is marked with two sets of systems and is not formal; Another building, Evens Hall, is the seat of the Department of Mathematics and the Department of Statistics. The classroom door numbers are arranged in even and odd numbers.