In all honesty, I didn’t think I would make it past my training as a News intern. It was November 2020, just a few weeks before Thanksgiving, and I was on the verge of leaving the Daily Bruin Slack workspace and never looking back. Read more...
Photo: Megan Tagami stands for a portrait. (Julia Zhou/Assistant Photo editor)
I’ll never forget the moment I knew college would be different, and that I too would be different by the end of it. A high-strung high school yearbook editor-in-chief, I came into the Daily Bruin office as a frightened freshman looking for what was safe and known. Read more...
Photo: Indya Donovan stands for a portrait. (Joseph Jimenez/Photo editor)
One time, when I was calling my mom, she recounted the surprise she was met with after telling the aunties at our local church that I became editor in chief of my school’s newspaper. Read more...
Photo: Victoria Li stands for a portrait. (Joseph Jimenez/Photo editor)
Just like data, life is messy. It presents us with an abundance of information and experiences, interwoven in intricate patterns – both visible and hidden. And amid this complex web, we face the challenge of somehow making sense of it all. Read more...
Photo: Vivian Luk stands for a portrait. (Joseph Jimenez/Photo editor)
The first time I walked into the Daily Bruin office I was, first and foremost, nervous. I was a sophomore at the time, and my first year at UCLA had been entirely online thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic. Read more...
Photo: Riley De Jong stands for a portrait. (Joseph Jimenez/Photo editor)
Before I go to sleep every night, I write in a journal. The entries vary in their content and prose, but my primary motivation for this nightly ritual is to keep a detailed record of my life. Read more...
Photo: Vivian Xu stands for a portrait. (Julia Zhou/Assistant Photo editor)
It’s wild to think how different your life would have been had you not decided to do just one thing. For me, that was applying to the Daily Bruin in the fall of my sophomore year. Read more...
Photo: Alexis Jones stands for a portrait. (Courtesy of Alexis Jones)
