Wednesday, June 25




James Barragan: A dedication to legacy, future

I wrote the personal essay to my college applications about the Wu-Tang Clan’s song “C.R.E.A.M.”

It’s a song about growing up in rough neighborhoods, dealing with gang violence and drugs and thinking that money is the only way out. That song summed up the way many of the kids in my high school seemed to think.

But I wanted something different. I wanted to get an education and change the world. Read more...


Serli Polatoglu: Chance saved by dignity

Three years is an oddly indefinable period of time. Some days, my stint at UCLA seemed interminable. Some days, it seemed all too transitory. And now, as I sit here typing up the text that will bear my very last byline in the Daily Bruin, I can’t help but realize that both sentiments, opposing as they may be, are incongruously true. Read more...





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