I joined the Daily Bruin four years ago because I wanted to improve my writing. After two years of being a writer, I decided to edit and help improve the writing of other reporters. Read more...

The first time my picture ever appeared in the Daily Bruin I wrote about my high school senior trip to Mexico. Like a deer caught in headlights, I smiled to the campus fearful and in full color. Read more...

Last fall, I wrote a column about students’ dependency on cell phones, which make the college experience more isolated than ever before. A disgruntled reader e-mailed: “I’m not here for the experience. Read more...

I don’t write. I don’t really edit either. And look what I got into. From Electronic Media Art Director to Electronic Media Director, I have learned so much that I can’t wait for summer to arrive. Read more...

It’s been about seven months since I’ve last been on these pages and since a fateful night when three of the five sports staff writers escaped an out-of-control burning big-rig barreling down a dead-ended street known as the Sports section. Read more...

A few days before I moved into Rieber Hall in the fall of 1995, my otherwise stoic dad called me over to have a little “talk.” He started off by saying, “When you walk down Bruin Walk, a lot of people will try to make you join their group.” He cited various religious, Greek and political organizations that he heard about from his UCLA alumni co-workers. Read more...

Three years ago I fell in love with The Bruin ““ and since then, I’ve been asking myself why. As a freshman on the orientation tour I found an otherwise gray office marked with wry reminders of its inhabitants and knew at once that these were my kind of people. Read more...