High school is over and now it’s time to make the big decisions. Obviously, your first important one has already been made ““ which college to attend. Read more...

Long-distance relationships tend to be a bit like baby sea turtles ““ many thousands are conceived, hundreds come to life, but an astonishingly small percentage of them actually survive. 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...

One of the more popular questions I get is “How’d you start working for the newspaper?” Well, it began innocently enough as something to have fun with “on the side” during my freshman year. Read more...

I’m sitting in the office right now before deadline, surrounded by a horde of staff members rushing to complete yet another paper. A new, ambitious writer to my left is furiously typing away with a phone in his hand. Read more...

Old editors in chief warned me about feeling deep sadness and undergoing difficult withdrawal periods after leaving the Daily Bruin. Dealing with student government officers angry about an editorial every other day, staying until 1 or 2 a.m., working on a sensitive news story, or having to completely improvise a midterm I had no time to study for all made the concept of missing The Bruin very unrealistic. Read more...

I always get a puzzled look when telling people that I am a math student. How did a math student become an assistant design director at the Daily Bruin? Read more...