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Sophomores Nissma Bencheikh (intended MCB major) and Roaya Jannatipour (intended IB major) became fast friends at Berkeley their freshman year. But it turns out they had a lot more in common than their love for biology!
Roaya Jannatipour and Nissma Bencheikh are sophomores at UC Berkeley. (UC Berkeley photo by Anne Brice).