Resources & Fun Websites for Berkeley

Do you know how many different resources online there are for Berkeley students?! Here's a list of all of the ones I know.
Please feel free to send any feedback and/or suggestions for other sites via the "Feedback" side tab!

If you have any questions at all, head over to CalAsk, which is continually growing to try to answer ANY and ALL questions you might have!
Psst, the short link to here is http://ocf.io/~vlo/BR.

General "Official" Pages:

• CalNet Authentication System
  AKA CalNet Login - login to Berkeley services.
• CalCentral
  Currently in the works by the university staff, CalCentral is a portal to connect BearFacts, bSpace, Telebears, etc. all into ONE easy-to-use site.
  
• Bearfacts
  Telebears appointments, CARS, registration, etc.
• bMail & CalMail
  Gmail/email for Berkeley.
• bDrive
  Google Drive for Berkeley.
• bCal
  Google Calendar for Berkeley.
• Cal 1 Card
  Cal 1 Card is your student ID/debit card/bus pass.
• Directory
  Stalk Search for people at Berkeley.
• Colleges of Berkeley
  
  • Letters and Science (L&S)
  • College of Chemistry (CoC)
  • College of Engineering (CoE)
  • College of Natural Resources (CNR)
  • Haas School of Business

Academic:

• bSpace
  Homework, calendars, files, etc. for all of your classes.
• Facebook Group: STUDY TIPS and OTHER USEFUL THINGS
  A place to find study tips and general tips for Berkeley classes
  
• Find your class year's and major's Facebook group
  
• GPA Calculator
  GPA calculator from the ASC.
  
• RefWorks
  Organize and cite the research papers used in a project/paper in any format.
• EasyBib
  Easily make a bibliography in MLA format.
• Tau Beta Pi Test Bank
  Old exams from pretty much all STEM classes, both upper- and lower-div. SUPER helpful.
  
• HKN's Test Bank
  Old exams from all EE & CS classes, both upper- and lower-div. HKN's site also has course guides (descriptions, reviews, etc.) for most EE & CS classes.
  
• Quad
  Quad inputs all of your assignments/projects using your class's syllabus to create a calendar with due dates. Currently only for Berkeley students.
• OneClass
  Organize your notes, share class notes with others, and get recommended notes/videos for your class. Also, when you join, you're entered into a scholarship or can win free textbooks.
• Classmint
  An interactive browser-based note-taking tool with text and image annotations.
  
• StudyBlue
  Make and share flashcards accessible by computer and smartphone for all of your classes. (Get a free month of Pro with the link above.)
• Uguru.me
  Tutor someone in a Berkeley class or a skill to earn some money.
• Written? Kitten!
  Need some motivation to start writing that paper? Every 100 words, you'll be rewarded with a new kitten.
• EssayTyper
  Need a BS essay? Input your topic, and watch the essay fly out as you type.
• HackerTyper
  Need some BS code? Input your topic, and watch it fly out as you type.

Library-Related:

• Library Catalog
  Look up books.
• Library Hours
  When does that library open/close?
• Library Proxy/VPN
  Use this to access research articles off-campus.

Class Planning/Scheduling:

• Telebears
  SIGN UP FOR YOUR CLASSES HERE.
• Schedule of Classes
  All the classes and their times.
• UC Berkeley Schedule Enhancer (UCBSE)
  Reorganizes and decorates the Berkeley Schedule of Classes and provides helpful links.
  
• DeCals
  Student-run 1-2 unit P/NP classes.
• NinjaCourses
  Helps you plan out your schedule, see reviews of classes & professors
  
• ScheduleBuilder
  Like NinjaCourses, but includes grade distributions, but no reviews.
  
• NinjaCommuters
  Script that overlays traveling time between classes based on Google Maps's predictions to pick your best schedule.
  
• Telebears Oracle
  It lets you see how classes fill up over time in the current and last semesters. Fantastic for seeing what classes to Phase I or Phase II.
  
• BerkeleyTime
  Lets you filter what kind of classes you want - by requirement, number of units, grade average, etc. Also has a campus map, grade distributions, and enrollment charts.
  
• CourseRank
  Like BerkeleyTime, but also has a 4-year planner, official and unofficial grade distributions, class reviews, and other cool things.
  
• Rate My Professors
  Ratings for professors.
• BearCheck
  Get notified when a seat opens up in a class you want!
• Kloudless
  Does the same thing as BearCheck - notifies you of an open space in a class.
• Has your section been updated recently?
  A listing of sections that have been updated recently.
• bCheck
  Check the status of a class (basically its listing in the Schedule of Classes) or find all open classes.
• Telebears RTC
  A site that claims to be more reliable in showing current enrollment in a class than the UC Berkeley schedule/BearFacts/etc.
• TeleFucked
  Got Telefucked and need to switch sections? Use this to find people to switch with.
• Cal Professor and Course Ratings Visualizer
  Organizes ratings for professors into bubble nodes for visualization - kinda cool.

Textbooks:

Hint: International versions, slightly older editions, and non-Berkeley versions should not be much different. If in doubt, ask people who have taken the class and/or your professor/GSI. Feel free to punch in your textbooks to all of these searches - they will probably show different prices from each other.

• Facebook groups:
  Direct selling/buying/trading between students, which means you get paid more for your books and you also pay less for your textbooks.
  • Textbook Exchange
    
  • UC Berkeley Textbooks
    
  • Textbook Trading
    
• Textbook Comparison Sites:
  • BigWords
    Personally my favorite site - it's a textbook comparison site. You can use this to find not only the cheapest textbooks to buy (including shipping and ALL of your textbooks together) but also the highest price (including shipping) for selling back your books as well.
    
  • Slugbooks
    Another textbook comparison site. This one lets you fill in the classes and auto-populates the textbooks.
    
  • BookSquad
    And here's another textbook comparison site. Basically like a combination of BigWords and Slugbooks.
  • DealOz
    
  • Afford Textbooks
    
  • Get Textbooks
    
  • Bookmetro
    
  • Book.ly
    
• Amazon Student aka Amazon Prime
  Use your .edu email and get 6 months of Amazon Prime free - aka free 2-day shipping and reduced-price overnight shipping. Only valid for 6 months, though.
• Chegg
  Chegg has books for rent/purchase too, but in general, it's not as good of a deal IMO.
• Swarmbooks
  Online marketplace to sell directly to other students.
• Google for coupon codes BEFORE BUYING from any place! Usually RetailMeNot is pretty good with coupon codes. I found a discount for OWL/WebAssign through RetailMeNot.
• FREE PDFS FOR EVERYONE!
  
  • Math 1A/1B and Math 53 (Chapter 13 onward) - Thanks goes to Ada Hui | Interactive Solutions | Solutions Manual
  • Math 54 - Thanks goes to Ada Hui | Also Math 54 (4th edition)
  Both only include the linear algebra portion of Math 54.
  • Selected other PDFs available from my personal collection. Use the "Feedback" tab if you would like to request one.

Fun:

• Confess.ly
  This is where most of Berkeley's confessions are - on the "Confessions & Rants" page, at least. A lot of people on here also give advice too, which is nice, and while confessions are of course anonymous, comments can also be anonymous too. There's also a "General Chatter" page for general chat and "Buddy Up" for finding someone to do things with (from study buddies to dates to hookups to new friends). You can also chat with others.
  
• AnonCon
  This is like the grandfather of all confessions pages. Started before 2008, this tradition brings in all kinds of students from Berkeley in the last two weeks of every semester (RRR week and finals week) to write anything and everything that's on their minds - from heart-wrenching stories/rants to a shoutout to hot GSIs to asking for hookups. There's also a year-round chatroom.
  
• Berkeley subreddit
  Just a place to discuss anything and everything about Berkeley.
  
• Berkeley Jerk subreddit
  And a place to make fun of anything in Berkeley... hahaha.
  
• Room Reservation System
  Have you ever tried to reserve rooms for events in Berkeley? The results often turn out something like this. Refresh it!
  
• 2 Student Bodies
  Hook up with people.
  
• Tumblrs:
  
  • Telebears Tumblr
    May the odds be ever in your favor.
  • Goddammit Berkeley
    Weird stuff in Berkeley.
  • Ursine Living
    Random "Go Bears" fun.
  • UC Berkeley Bathroom Graffiti
    A collection of Berkeley's bathroom graffiti.
• Facebook Pages:
  
  • Berkeley Compliments
    Compliment people anonymously!
    
  • Berkeley Love
    Spread the love...
    
  • Berkeley Hookups
    
  • Berkeley Consent
    
  • Berkeley Missed Connections
    Had a connection with someone but didn't get a chance to ask who they are? Post here.
    
  • Berkeley Confessions
    (See also Confessly and AnonCon above). Now inactive.
    
  • Berkeley Secrets
    The currently-active version of UC Berkeley Confessions.
    
  • UC Berkeley Non-Douchey Confessions
    Yes, this is a thing.
    
  • UC Berkeley Confessions - Unfiltered
    Like the Confessions page, but unfiltered.
    
  • Humans of Berkeley
    Berkeley's version of Humans of New York - photos of people at Berkeley coupled with a short little glimpse into their lives.
    
  • Berkeley Story Collective
    Similar to Humans of Berkeley, but with longer narratives; professors included.
    
  • Berkeley Squirrels
    Yeah, our squirrels are famous for being obnoxiously fearless.
    
  • Cal Squirrels
    Another squirrel page.
    
  • Sleeping Bear
    Cute little page about sleeping.
    
  • Facebook group: Overheard at Cal
    Silly things heard at Berkeley.
    

Free Stuff:

• Software for UC Berkeley students
  Software of note:
  Adobe CS6
  Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office
  
• 50 GB of free storage from box.com for UC Berkeley students
  FIFTY GIGS of free space!
  In Fall 2012, Dropbox also ran its Space Race, which gave all Berkeley students that signed up with their .edu emails 25 gigs for free for getting so many signups. Not sure if this is still true, but you could always try.
• Open Computing Facility (OCF)
  The OCF is a student-run organization that provides a lot of free stuff. Make an account, and you get 250 pages of free printing per semester, an @ocf.berkeley.edu email, SSH, a database, and 2 GB of web space if you want them. This webpage is hosted by the OCF. (Check the URL!)
• Dtella at Cal
  P2P within the Berkeley network for sharing/obtaining textbooks, TV shows, etc. There's a better explanation of it here.
• Facebook Page: Free Stuff at Cal
  What the title says - large giveaways at Cal. However, I've found that this isn't very updated. Many of the free giveaways can be found on Sproul or Kroeber Plaza (near the art building) and are not listed here.

Buying/Selling/Trading:

• Facebook group: Free and For Sale
  Buy and sell anything you want here.
  
• Facebook group: Clothes!
  Buy and sell clothes here.
  
• Buynear.me
  Buynear.me lets on Berkeley students input what they want to sell. You can filter by items and see prices. It also helps you auto-post to several Facebook groups.
  
• Berkeley Meal Points Exchange
  Lets you do exchanges for meal points (keep this hush-hush!). I wish I had found this earlier. Excess meal points is an extremely common issue.
• Uloop
  Classifieds for college students
• Karma
  Exchange favors with other students. (Coming soon)

Housing:

• Housing
  Official housing site.
• Maintenance Requests
  Submit a request here if anything in your residence hall is broken or malfunctioning.
• Laundry Web
  Check the status of the laundry machines in your building.
• ResComp
  Login to Helpdesk to view your quota or for help with your in-room internet connection.
• Cal Rentals
  Official UC Berkeley listing of places for rent. (Facebook page.)
• Berkeley Co-ops
  Berkeley cooperative housing.
• PadMapper
  Find apartments up for rent here.
• Facebook Groups: One and Two
  Use this to find apartment housing for next year.
  
• Find your building's Facebook group.
  

Transportation:

• Campus Map
  Go somewhere on campus.
• 3D Campus Map
  Really cool 3D campus map.
• Google Maps
  Walk/take public transit/bike/drive somewhere.
• Bearwalk
  If you want to go from one place to another at night, Bearwalk can walk you. You can request one and check the status of your request from this site.
  
• Parking and Transportation
  Shuttle routes and schedules.
• AC Transit
  AC Transit maps and schedules.
• NextBus
  Check when the next AC Transit bus to your stop is coming.
• Clipper Card
  RFID card means you go "beep" at the Clipper stand to pay for public transportation anywhere in the Bay Area.
• BART
  Subway all around the Bay Area.
• ZipCar
  Rent a car to drive somewhere.
• City CarShare
  Or rent a car from here.
• Uber
  Uber is essentially a higher-end on-call taxi service. Here are some codes for $20 worth of free credit into your account:
  • jizj2
  • xybin
• Lyft
  Lyft is another higher-end on-call taxi service, basically. Here are some codes for $20 worth of free credit into your account:
  • CAL1
  • OSKI
  • GOLDENBEAR

Food:

• CalDining's Menu for Today
  Check here to decide where to eat.
• Instacart
  Get food from Trader Joe's, Whole Foods, or Safeway shipped right to your door!
• SpoonRocket
  Pick from a few different choices and get it delivered to your door for $6. Menu changes every day.
• Ghetto Delivery
  Food delivery service from (Southside) Asian Ghetto/Durant Food Court. Here's a code for free delivery: getitnow

Money:

• MyFinAid
  View your financial aid for Berkeley.
• Electronic Funds Transfer
  Link your bank account to receive refunds from CARS.

Jobs/Careers:

• Facebook Groups:
  
  • Jobs and Internships
    
  • Berkeley Startups and Entrepreneurs
    
  • CS Jobs and Internships
    
• Callisto
  The Career Center's site for helping you find a job. There are so many internships and jobs listed here.
• Work Study
  Work study listing of jobs.
• Blu
  "The employee portal designed to be your one-stop employee resource for personalized access to information, services and online resources."
• At Your Service
  Resouces for Berkeley employees.
• URAP
  URAP, or the Undergraduate Research Apprentice Program, is a program where students can apply to assist in the research of Berkeley faculty.
• LinkedIn
  The ever-important LinkedIn - basically like Facebook but centered around your resume, where your friends are your connections.
• InternMatch
  Find an internship here.
• FirstJob
  Find a job here.
• Clover Ink
  Post your resume and easily find and apply to job offers.
• Occuhunt
  Map of tables at Berkeley's career fairs with descriptions of the companies - updated every career fair. Now with resume critiques too.
• Hired
  Hired makes tech companies bid to hire you (and you can choose who to interview with) - all you have to do is fill out a profile similar to that of LinkedIn.
• Readyforce
  Similar to LinkedIn, but much more easily connect to the companies you're interested in - just fill out your profile and click "Connect".
• StudentQuest
  Post and find jobs.
• UniConn
  Uniconn connects startups to university students (finding startups to work for, helping give startups resources, etc.) - starting from Berkeley.
• collegefeed
  This self-described "career marketplace" helps college students and grads find places to work, prepare for interviews, and apply for essay-based scholarships.
• Go Getter
  Schedule a free appointment to figure out what to do to get to the job you want.

Events:

• CalLink
  Search clubs/organizations and events going on on campus.
• UC Berkeley Events
  Official listing of all events in Berkeley.
• Student Calendar
  Another calendar.
• Rumblii
  A site that lists events at Berkeley.
• CalBeat
  A better way to search clubs/organizations on campus.
• Socialplex
  A site that lists events at Berkeley, it seems like... not yet open.
• Facebook Groups: Events and Parties & CAL Knows How To Party

Advice/Help:

• CalAsk
  Have any questions about Berkeley? Find the answer here!
• Berkeley FAQ
  The Google Docs predecessor version of CalAsk.
• Bearably Golden
  One of my friends' Berkeley Tumblr filled with advice (and pictures)
• Golden Bear Blog
  Blog written for incoming Berkeley students by the Office of Undergraduate Admissions.
• Facebook Group: Premed Advising
  A Facebook group helping premeds run by a very helpful Cal alumnus.
• Productivity Hacking Guide
  The most helpful guide ever written to help you become more productive. Written by James Maa from the Class of 2016.
• A Beginner’s Guide to Computer Science
  A comprehensive overview to how studying computer science really works, also written by James Maa.

Handy Tools/Technology-Related:

• Manage My Keys
  Set your keys to use AirBears2 or bConnected on your devices.
• Synchronize CalNet PassPhrase
  If your passphrases aren't synchronized, use this to fix it.
• bConnected FAQ
  Have any questions about using bConnected? Check here.
• Berkeley API Central
  Want to make a tool/web app for Berkeley students and need to pull data from Berkeley? Here's APIs for you to use.
• Berkeley Authentication Autofiller
  Chrome extension to auto-fill in (or even auto-login!) your CalNet info for you so you don't have to login to AirBears or Telebears or bSpace or any of Berkeley's dozens of sites manually. THIS IS SUPER USEFUL. Only works on Chrome, though.
  
• AirBears Supplicant (currently inactive until further notice)
  Like the Berkeley Authentication Autofiller above, this logs you in automatically to AirBears and also comes in more versions. No longer in use/development due to AirBears 2, but left here in case the original AirBears returns.
  Windows (and looks like a Mac one is in progress too)
  Gnome (Linux - Fedora/Ubuntu)
  Android
  
• Github Educational Accounts
  Github is a great tool to backup, collaborate, and merge code together. Anyone with a .edu email can get a free upgrade to a Micro plan, which includes free private repositories.
• Install Sublime in Soda
  A super-awesome script to install Sublime Text editor on the lab machines in Soda. Woo, no more Emacs/Vi(m).
  
• Rescuetime
  Track how much time you're spending at your computer, and at which sites and which programs. Gives you a weekly report with exactly how many hours you spent at your computer, and your productivity score. Highly recommended.
• Prezi
  Make animated, detailed infographics to give presentations from - basically like a really fancy slideshow. Sign up with your .edu email to get free edu membership, which removes the logo and gives you more storage space, in addition to some other features.
  
• LastPass
  Super-handy add-on to save your passwords on Firefox/Chrome/etc. Apparently having an .edu email gives you 6 free months of LastPass Premium as opposed to the free version.

Miscellaneous Sites:

• UCPD Email List
  Sign up for UCPD email alerts about all of the crimes happening around Berkeley.
• UCPD Lost and Found
  Check for your lost items from the police station here.
• Facebook Group: Lost and Found
  Lost or found something? Post here.
• Facebook Page: UC Berkeley Lost Keys
  Lost or found keys? Post here.
• The Daily Californian
  The Daily Cal, official newspaper of UC Berkeley.
• Caliber
  Caliber, the magazine for UC Berkeley.
• Facebook Group: Campus Tips
  
• Facebook Group: UC Berkeley Stalkerspace
  Not used much, really.
  
• Innovative Design
  Innovative Design (or Inno D) is a student-run organization for students to learn and practice graphic design and photography. If you are part of a student organization, you can request for Inno D to make a gorgeous logo or flyers for your organization for free, under the "Request" tab.

Apps:

• Bearwalk on Android and iTunes
  The handy app version of Bearwalk - request a bearwalker, see the shuttle map, etc.
  
• Mounza on Android and iTunes
  See career events (talks, job openings, etc.) at UC Berkeley. Career talks usually give out free food and stuff.
  
• Lunch Box
  Get a schedule of all the events on campus that have free food!
  
• Glookup Frontend
  Handy app for checking glookup (aka your grades) for CS classes (Android only)
• CalMeals
  View the menu for today for any dining hall and rate the food.
• AirBears Auto Login
  Automatically logs you into AirBears - now not necessary with the advent of AirBears2.
• FanCred for Golden Bears
  Some iPhone sports app for our football team...
• Lucky
  Swap pictures with someone random at Berkeley! Only for Berkeley students.
• Courses
  Keep a to-do list of all the work you have to do for classes.
• I heard there's also an app for NextBus (which tells you how long until the next bus at your stop) but I haven't personally used it and it looks like there's a variety of unofficial apps.

Other Resources:

• Student Learning Center
  The place to get free study groups and/or tutoring for pretty much all large lower-div classes
  
• HKN
  HKN is the EECS honor society, which provides free tutoring and review sessions for lower-div CS classes!
• Academic Services Center
  Located in the main building of every unit, the ASC provides free tutoring and computers to use, as well as paid printing.
  
• Disabled Students' Program
  If you have any disability, whether physical, mental, emotional, learning, etc. DSP will help you.
  
• UHS/Tang Center
  The Tang Center is UC Berkeley's health clinic. People both with and without SHIP health insurance can use it. There's CPS with 5 free counseling sessions a week, as well as pregnancy testing and just about anything else you would need short of surgery.
• CalGreeks
  All about Greek life at Berkeley.
• Cal Panhellenic Council
  The main base for all social sororities at Berkeley.
• Recreational Sports Facility
  Site of the RSF. Sport clubs, intramural sports, workout machines, etc.
• Study Abroad
  Find out about how and where to study abroad.
• Facebook Group: Study Abroad
• SUPERB
  Free movie showings and concerts for Berkeley.