You never know when you're going to have the time of your life or what it's going to look like. For me, it looked like countless stressful hours spent in the windowless office of the Daily Bruin. Read more...

From time to time I'll chance upon his face in this newspaper, smiling smugly from a column "“ his 500 words of fame. Read more...

Wow," stammered the child, as he peered up through his thick tortoise-shell glasses. Read more...

A sportswriter once told me our profession was only a matter of sheer dumb luck. Read more...

I spent spring break a couple of years ago with the Embera Puru, a native tribe that lives in the rain forests of Panama, a couple of hours by boat from the nearest roads. Read more...

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Opinion staff columnist Asad Ramzanali

If you're reading this, it means I have successfully gotten a picture of myself published in The Bruin for the first time. Read more...

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Slot editor Robert Goldberg

If you spend enough time at the Daily Bruin Copy desk, you'll notice some pretty bizarre stuff. Plastic trick-or-treat pumpkins hang from the arms of naked Barbie dolls. Read more...