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...

As I reflect on the time when I entered this university, I remember the variety of emotions I felt. I was very excited and a little bit scared. Read more...

Growing up in San Francisco and attending the local public high school, I was like many others ““ I knew I had to do well in school to pursue eventually a career in my field of choice, but I didn’t know what that field might be. Read more...

Since I started working, I’ve had 13 different jobs. I’ve slung coffee, worked retail, sold movie tickets, answered phones and ran errands. I’ve tracked loan data for a mortgage brokerage, I’ve done medical billing for a psychologist and I’ve been an office manager for a crazy chiropractor. Read more...

Welcome to orientation. By now, you’ve probably noticed a few things about UCLA. For one, this isn’t your old high school. You will find yourself one of hundreds in the typical lecture hall, one in a hundred on your dorm floor and one of three in your own room. Read more...