Congratulations, and welcome to UCLA. It wasn’t easy getting here, but as a first-year UCLA student you’re on your way to expanding your knowledge and focusing on experiences that will help you build a rewarding career. Read more...

By now you probably have been congratulated and praised by every other person both inside and outside of UCLA for being admitted here. It is well-deserved recognition. Read more...

One of the gifts of UCLA is that each of you is welcome here, including lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning and same-gender-loving people. You are expected to be here. Read more...

The Office of Residential Life places a strong emphasis on student development and academic involvement within the university’s living community. We strive to make living on campus at UCLA as positive as possible. Read more...

Welcome to UCLA. You are about to begin one of the most important, most challenging, most exciting times of your entire life. During the next few years most of you will transition from the last days of the relatively confined, somewhat predictable world of adolescence into the wide-open, unpredictable world of the rest of your life. Read more...

It’s a three-day, two-night stay at a sunny locale close to the beach, with palm trees, pools and tennis courts everywhere. Housing, food and recreation are included in the package price. Read more...

As I think back on my undergraduate years, I have visions of late-night studying ““ sometimes for classes that I loved and sometimes for those that I endured. Read more...