Jason Bircea (English ’17) Chose UC Berkeley Twice

man wearing a UC Berkeley English sweatshirt sits in a chair in a garden

Photo courtesy of Jason Bircea

July 23, 2024

In community college, Jason Bircea came across UC Berkeley’s English department website and was blown away by a student’s honors thesis on Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel Never Let Me Go

“I decided I wanted to go to a school that would teach me how to write like that,” Bircea recalls.

Bircea transferred to UC Berkeley in 2015. Several years later, he chose Berkeley again to start his Ph.D. in English literature.

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