A Loafer's Guide to the U.C. Berkeley Campus

TL;DR — An idiosyncratic walking guide to Berkeley’s campus, written by someone who clearly loved the place.

A personal walking guide to the U.C. Berkeley campus by Carolyn Dougherty — buildings, grounds, and the things worth noticing, at a loafer’s pace.

The file path preserved in the scan (‘/Volumes/music and pictures/all writing/loafers guide/’) is a small artifact in itself: a personal-website document from the era when a person’s writing lived on their own machine and their own domain.

⚠️ The PDF’s font encoding defeats text extraction, so the title was read from the rendered page.

Where this came from

• Tim Hwang’s “greatest, rarest PDF” thread

53 pages. A copy is archived locally against link rot; the header links the original source.