The life of über-scholar and cellist Aaron Benavidez, just named Berkeley's top graduating senior, is nothing short of dramatic - from his impoverished and turbulent childhood in California's Central Valley, to playing the cello in Europe's elite concert halls, to finding his "Ithaca" in the field of sociology.
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For centuries, great wits and thinkers have poked fun at the paradoxes and practicality of philosophy. But for a growing number of Berkeley students, philosophy is not only a passion, but a smart career move. The number of undergraduate majors has increased 74 percent in the last decade, and graduates are going into law, business, medicine, technology and pedagogy.
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CAL Prep, the academic charter high school that Berkeley co-founded six years ago, is about to celebrate the graduation of its first class of seniors. Making the event especially sweet is that all 17 won acceptance to at least one four-year college.
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