By Joseph Vardner To all who are entering UCLA, you’re about to be blown away. This university is a small city with enough people and variety to make anything possible. Read more...

I’ve written over 200 articles and editorials for the Daily Bruin, but when I sat down to write this column, I was stumped. How could I possibly sum up four years of working for The Bruin in less than 800 words? Read more...

It has been said that if railroad companies had realized they weren’t in the business of building trains, but rather in the business of transporting people, they would have owned airlines. Read more...

With the ridiculously buoyant ending of “Star Wars: Episode I” still in my head, I realized with a start that by the time little Anakin matriculated into the Dark Side, I would have finished college. Read more...

I have never done anything more depressing than look for work. There is nothing in this world I will enjoy more than waking up early to do 40 hours of work a week within the same building, let alone having someone tell me what to do, when to leave and what to wear. Read more...

Less than one week before the final exam in my Zen Buddhism class winter quarter, I marched up to my professor, handed him a sheet of paper to sign, and told him I was dropping the class. Read more...

With its large lower division classes and expansive campus, UCLA is often unfairly labeled as an impersonal university. Many high school students are warned before they enroll at a big school that they will be “just a number,” but my experiences at UCLA have proved quite the contrary. Read more...