Lucy Yang and Shirley Xiao are second-year computer science students at UC Berkeley.

They’re roommates with full course loads and, just like their freshman year, they’re living in Berkeley with busy schedules. Yet unlike last year, and along with millions of other university students, the lecture halls and libraries of yesterday have been replaced with bedrooms and living rooms.

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