1601 Allston Way
Berkeley, CA 94703
Total Occupancy: 25 residents
Single Bedrooms: 25
Accessible Rooms: 1
Parking Spaces: 10 (easy to park on the street also)
Only UC Berkeley graduate and re-entry students are eligible to live in the Convent during the Academic Year.
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The Convent is in fact a former convent, but the studious, cloistered nuns have long since been replaced by studious, cloistered graduate and re-entry students. Well, at least some of them are studious. The almost deity-like powers of maturity possessed by these wise scholars allow them to maintain a house that is clean, orderly, environmentally friendly, and fairly quiet. Well-roundedness of convent residents is ensured by regular games of pool, foosball, or dance-dance revolution in the spacious chapel-cum-game
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room, as well as many insightful cross-disciplinary discussions of academic esoterica. Occasionally, residents relive their heady college days during infamous once-a-semester
parties, karaoke nights, and room-to-room fetes. Since cooking is a fabulous way to procrastinate thesis-writing, Convent meals tend to be elaborate many-course affairs of almost disgusting decadence. In short, The Convent serves as an ideal place for both immersing oneself in ones studies and escaping from the books for some real live human interaction.
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