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...

As I walk home from a late class, I am suddenly aware that this is one of the last times I will stroll down Bruin Walk as a student. Read more...

For those of you graduating this quarter, it is hard to believe your college career is almost concluded. What seemed such a big part of your life just a few years ago is now completed so quickly. Read more...

Commencement is an important and unforgettable event in your lives. It honors a significant accomplishment: the successful fulfillment of the requirements for your degree. It also signals the end of a very special and formative period, and it marks the beginning of the great future you have been preparing for while at UCLA. Read more...