UCLA’s incoming freshmen are without question some of the finest students in the nation. The average high school GPA of these students is a 4.27 and their mean SAT score is 2010. Read more...
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June 25, 9:00 pm
[ORIENTATION]: College requires new academic approach
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June 25, 9:00 pm
Student groups should be organized, reliable
Dicto Simpliciter, the fallacy of making sweeping generalizations, is frowned upon, but admit it, every person probably commits this same error many times in a single day. Read more...
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June 25, 9:00 pm
[ORIENTATION]: Make lemonade of pre-college jitters
When I set foot on a rainy UCLA campus last year, I was awed by the immense beauty of the 419-acre block I would later learn to call my home. Read more...
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June 25, 9:00 pm
Sex columns help educate, clear up misconceptions
I suppose my biggest regret as UCLA’s sex columnist was never coming up with a sassy name for my weekly musings ““ such as Cal’s “Sex on Tuesday,” Boston College’s “Sex and the Univer-city” or (my favorite) “Cornellingus” from you can guess where. Read more...
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June 11, 9:00 pm
My UCLA journey started with a plan, but ended with open possibilities
My entire life has been a series of plans, carefully constructed and executed to the letter. When I entered UCLA as a freshman, I decided on an English major along with taking the pre-medicine curriculum. Read more...
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June 11, 9:00 pm
Good writing grows from the bad
It may be one of the biggest and best college newspapers in the country, but there’s a lot of bad writing in the Daily Bruin. I can’t remember the last time I picked up the paper and didn’t wince at a cliche or inaccuracy within a few seconds ““ and this is after the articles in question had gone through four rounds of editing. Read more...
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June 11, 9:00 pm
Messages last longer than the medium
In some contexts, disappearing paper stacks have been called art. That’s not necessarily the case with the disappearing stacks of paper that we produce. After all, most of us who work at The Bruin are sleep-deprived caffeine junkies working on a deadline in an office where the air doesn’t move and the only fans are for the computers. Read more...