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How to Survive an Internship in San Francisco
01-08-2025
It’s the dream: getting an internship in the big city. But amid the unicorns and rainbows, there are some challenges to being a summer intern. From finding a decent place to live to finding love and staying sane amid the chaos, SFGATE’s interns Summer and Nathan made the definitive guide.
'Someone's always watching': Gen Z is spying on each other
16-07-2025
I watched in horror from my dorm room as three gray circles, labeled with the initials of my closest friends, slowly converged at the campus dining hall on the map displayed on my phone. It was my sophomore year of college...
Bay Area town turns on recycling project
11-08-2025
A few weeks ago, Devan Lane and her husband were considering purchasing a newly built home in the Willowglen development in Rohnert Park, a city of 45,000 just south of Santa Rosa. Lane liked the idea of raising her 11-month-old daughter Charlotte in a neighborhood full of other kids...
California teens are ditching office jobs — and making $100K before they turn 21
22-08-2025
It’s noon on a Thursday, but the day’s lunch break is already over and the cement building in Concord is once again full. Class is in session. A dozen students — most dressed in gray canvas button-downs and baseball caps — sit with rapt attention facing the whiteboard at the front of the room.