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Everyone Gets Shot
By Krish Ajmani A quick rap across the knuckles with a ruler. A square slap on the face. A scathing insult exploiting that tiny insecurity you didn’t even know you had. The world has changed a great deal from the good old days of corporal and emotional punishment. Today, children are given free rein by […]
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Navigating the Apartment Party
By Anu Shivakumar It’s Friday night on Landfair Avenue; you want to join in the fun. High-pitched yells intensify as you walk towards the gates of a crowded building. You begin climbing the stairs and wince as some- one pukes off the balcony onto a fallen Bird scooter below. You’ve reached the door and the […]
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Theater Kids, Take Center Stage
By David Egan How should one live? We’ve asked this since Aristotle. At twenty years old I’m unqualified to answer it. But in the absence of wisdom there is inspiration. Inspiration, which once meant “divine guidance,” is the creative gift of the young. What we create is ourselves and the future. What glimmers as inspiration […]
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Relinquish Responsibility, Embrace Fate
By Kimya Afshar You are not going to be satisfied with yourself. Not because you haven’t worked hard enough to attain some impossible standard of your aesthetic goals, or realized your greatest potential. The person we are, and are constantly becoming, is not a result of free will or personal design. We have no individual […]
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Laying the SAT to Rest
By Angel Perez When the news broke about the introduction of a shorter, digitized form of the SAT, the sanctity of this infamous “standardized” test was called into question for a second time in recent history. After the discovery that celebrities, including Full House’s Lori Laughlin, manipulated the results of their children’s tests for the […]
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Lessons in Burnout
By Gaurav Kale Monday and Tuesday were fantastic: you got all your work done, stuck to your workout routine, and went to sleep feeling invincible. Wednesday and Thursday are ripe for getting ahead for the first time and preparing for next week’s inevitable workload. But instead of progress, Wednesday brings crippling lethargy; you barely work […]
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Mental Illness is Abnormal — And That’s Okay
Raina Jain For as long as there have been sufferers of mental illness, there have been those who demonize them. Though we have moved on from the era of perceiving the mentally ill as morally wrong or devil-possessed, we have entered an era where the term “severely mentally ill” is interchangeable with “dangerous.” Headlines like […]
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The Music Industry is Dead
By Elise Bryan The music industry landscape is unrecognizable from what it was even ten years ago. The days of having to sign with a major record label to be a successful artist are long behind us. Technically speaking, there is no reason to sign a contract when an artist can have more control over […]
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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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