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A Love Like No Other
By: Logan Sobel To the Person I Ride My Bird Scooter with to Save Money, with Love,The world last night was just the two of us. At the Westwood In-N-Out. It was late on a Friday night and all those perfectly mixeddrinks we had killed were digesting beautifully. Together, weobserved the enthralling environment of 16 […]
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Fast & Furious: Drivers in LA
By: Krish AmaniThe hand grabs the wheel, knuckles white as the grip gets evertighter. The belt is tight across the chest. The foot pressedagainst the brake. Almost there. A naive target is spotted, andclosing fast. A few more feet and a completely relaxed and carefreeUCLA student on the premed track will be perfectly in place. […]
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UCLA’s Guide to Healthy Living
By: Lucas Willey Here at UCLA, we take the utmost pride in our healthy and attractive student body. UCLA plans on plastering our students on the front of every university advertising brochure, so to ensure high application rates for the upcoming years, we offer this more than suggestive health plan for our students to follow […]
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Back to School: Dos and Dont’s
By: Kayla Gerber After a long time in quarantine and sitting in Zoom calls, it’sgreat to finally be back on campus—a whopping 559 dayslater! As a former baby bruin who left as a freshman andcame back as a junior, things are obviously different. Here’s a back-on-campus starter pack to make the adjustment a little easier! […]
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The Non-Stem Majors Guide To Fitting In At UCLA
By: Anthony Castillo If you are entering as a new student at UCLA, you’re probablyanticipating the opportunity to create new bonds and meetpeople who share your interests. Perhaps you’ll meet yournew hiking buddy, beach friends, or study squad! However, youbegin to realize that you are struggling to relate to others and can’tform a good impression. […]
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Predicting Majors Based on Instagram Bios
By Max Schaller Picture this. It’s an ordinary day. You’re scrolling through thegram, and you’re feeling a bit antsy. You’ve just spent the lasthalf-hour zooming in on your ex’s tagged photos, and you’refeeling like you should finally delete the app for good. But then yousit back and think. You consider how much you can really […]
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Breaking Down the Breakup
By Anu ShivakumarWe’re not good for each other.” “I need to focus onmyself.” “It isn’t going to work out long-term.”The words that lead to waterworks, to changing their name on yourphone to “Do not text under any circumstances.” The words thatlead to watching Dirty Dancing 16 times in succession. If you’re outthere going through this: […]
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What is this Internet Speech We Speak of?
By Elise Bryan No, it’s the period slay hunty finna on god boots the house down chile sis for me. Comment sections on various social media platforms are riddled with these words in strings that are unintelligible to the casual viewer. These words are not new by any means, but have somehow been absorbed by […]
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We Can All Learn A Lesson In Political Discourse From Baseball
By Willa Reed On baseball season’s opening day in 2011, Giants fan Bryan Stow was found in a pool of his own blood outside Dodger Stadium. Stow was beaten up by two Dodgers fans; they dented his skull, deformed his spine, and left him in a nine-month coma. Vivid memories of this tragedy have stuck […]
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Make Peas, Not War: The Benefits of a Plant-Based World
By Navid Eghbali Twenty years ago, if one was to walk up to a random person at school and mention veganism, there’d be a high chance that person would have a puzzled look on their face. Nowadays, any random person on campus would know what veganism is and would probably have his or her own […]
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