Four years at UCLA, and it feels like I have been at the Daily Bruin for six. Between school, partying and the newspaper, it’s hard to believe that The Bruin actually won most of the time. Read more...

I will miss my backpack. That is what I will miss most about school. My green Jansport. It’s been with me for four years and after June 18, I will probably stash it away in my parents’ garage. Read more...

During the countless hours I’ve worked inside the Daily Bruin office, the most interesting have been spent looking at newspapers dating back more than 50 years. Read more...

I joined the Daily Bruin four years ago because I wanted to improve my writing. After two years of being a writer, I decided to edit and help improve the writing of other reporters. Read more...

A few days before I moved into Rieber Hall in the fall of 1995, my otherwise stoic dad called me over to have a little “talk.” He started off by saying, “When you walk down Bruin Walk, a lot of people will try to make you join their group.” He cited various religious, Greek and political organizations that he heard about from his UCLA alumni co-workers. Read more...

The first time my picture ever appeared in the Daily Bruin I wrote about my high school senior trip to Mexico. Like a deer caught in headlights, I smiled to the campus fearful and in full color. Read more...

Last fall, I wrote a column about students’ dependency on cell phones, which make the college experience more isolated than ever before. A disgruntled reader e-mailed: “I’m not here for the experience. Read more...