Jennifer Wilson said she initially intended to get a bachelor’s degree in physics at the University of Birmingham in England, but decided to pursue American literature after she read Herman Melville’s “Moby-Dick” in one sitting. Read more...

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Swipes for the Homeless has facilitated the donation of more than 95,000 swipes worth of food since the club was founded in 2009. The majority of the donations go to UCLA students with unexpected financial burdens. Read more...

Photo: Third-year business economics student Bianca Natt donates swipes to UCLA club Swipes for the Homeless. Club members Tiana Austel, a second-year psychology and communication studies student, and Javier Fernandez, a first-year business economics student, collected swipes outside De Neve Dining Hall during dinner hours. (Evaneet Sidhu/Daily Bruin)

Nabil Alshurafa and Rajaa Alrayyes rushed through the menu at a bakery in Egypt days before their wedding ceremony. Preoccupied with their studies, they picked out their wedding cake in less than a minute. Read more...

Photo: Nabil Alshurafa, a graduate student in computer science, and Rajaa Alrayyes, a fifth-year civil engineering student, demonstrate one of Alshurafa’s programs, a phone application that tracks physical activity and nutrition. (Alyssa Dorn/Daily Bruin)