A friend once told me that life is nothing but a series of highly awkward moments. I initially thought this to be witty but wholly untrue. Read more...

It’s true what they say: The best things in life often come unexpectedly. One day at the beginning of fall quarter last year, recent graduate Monica Sheftel was practicing in the gamelan room of the music building with a group that performs music from Ghana when she met an Indian man named Abhiman Kaushal. Read more...

By now virtually every student understands that downloading songs for free from the Internet isn’t legal. And the Recording Industry Association of America’s recent slew of lawsuits against individual people should be enough to make even the most determined Kazaa user in the dorms at least a little nervous. Read more...

Getting a job isn’t easy. Students learn this all too well around this time of year, courtesy of countless rejections by unpaid internships, cheap local restaurants, department stores and more. Read more...

When Professor Denise Mann was a film student, an arts education was a bit narrower than it is today. “I understood a great deal about how movies were made in a hands-on way, but I had no sense of how those experiences related to the complexity of the Hollywood industry,” Mann said. Read more...

I’m oversimplifying, over-dramatizing, and over-Cliffs Notes-ing matters, but it should be noted that orientation tells you pretty much nothing about UCLA. Don’t get me wrong. I loved orientation; it’s still one of my very favorite college memories. Read more...

There’s a better way to catch free movies than downloading, and all it requires is a trip to campus. Sponsored by the Graduate Students Association, Melnitz Movies offers up free screenings of films every school year at the James Bridges Theater. Read more...