I don’t usually have very much to say. In fact, I waited until the very last minute to turn in this column because, after copy editing 40-plus -30- columns over the course of my two years of editorship, I didn’t think I had anything particularly unique to say about the Daily Bruin experience. Read more...

Photo: Maddie McDonagh stands for a portrait. (Megan Cai/Assistant Photo editor)

The Daily Bruin. These three words carry more weight than I could have ever thought possible for the name of a college newspaper. Just flashing through all of my memories of this paper overwhelms me with conflicting emotions: pride and dissatisfaction, joy and anger, happiness and sorrow. Read more...

Photo: Maanas Oruganti stands for a portrait. (Megan Cai/Assistant Photo editor)

I realize that whatever I say here will never comprehensively articulate what these past four years have meant to me, so I’m just going to write. Read more...

Photo: EJ Panaligan stands for a portrait. (Joseph Jimenez/Assistant Photo editor)

I joined the Daily Bruin to take some pictures, not to do journalism. Photography has always been a passion of mine, and before the Daily Bruin, I used my cameras to take graduation photos and portraits of my high school friends. Read more...

Photo: Ashley Kenney stands for a portrait. (Joseph Jimenez/Assistant Photo editor)

I didn’t know much about my grandma before she passed away. My āmā, which is Taiwanese for “grandma,” was an elusive figure to me. I wasn’t familiar with the life she led in Taiwan before immigrating to the United States with her husband and two sons in the 1970s. Read more...

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Being asked about your five-year plan after graduation can be exciting and intimidating at the same time. In one week, I will walk across the stage to receive my diploma. Read more...

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If you had asked me in my first year of college where I thought I would be four years later, there is no way I would have gotten the answer right. Read more...

Photo: Christine Tran stands for a portrait. (Sakshi Joglekar/Daily Bruin senior staff)