I was in my first college discussion section. Italian history. The syllabus encouraged class participation to earn the highest grade. Our TA kicked off the section by asking about our thoughts on the reading. I looked at my notes – interpretations and questions I had jotted down in my course reader. I began to mentally […]
Author Archives: Anjishnu Das
Alumna’s startup gives students a chance to explore new career paths
Nicki Klein sat idle at her corporate job in the years after graduating from UCLA, wishing she could find a career as captivating as the Legos and puzzles she played with for hours as a child. After trying three uninspiring jobs, Klein found in coding what enthralled her as a child playing with Legos and […]
New Hedrick study space set to open in winter 2017
This post was updated on Aug. 25 at 4:30 p.m. A 24-hour study space and cafe is scheduled to open in Hedrick Hall winter 2017, with an increased budget of $9.1 million. The opening of the Study at Hedrick, originally scheduled for fall 2016 with an $8.2 million budget, was pushed to winter 2017 due to unforeseeable […]
Couple loans unexpected find to UCLA Meteorite Gallery
It took Ken and Jill Eltrich three years to realize the 5-pound rock they were using as a doorstop was a 4.5-billion-year-old meteorite. After almost another year of reading up on the meteorite, the couple decided they wanted to share the stone with others and loaned it to the UCLA Meteorite Gallery. The meteorite will […]
English TA allows students to pursue multiple ways to earn their As
Students in Jack Caughey’s class can turn in annotated McDonald’s menus and “interview” poems for class assignments. Caughey, a teaching assistant for English 4W: “Critical Reading and Writing,” encourages students to build their own syllabi. He said he thinks students can learn analytical skills by close-reading everything from classical literature to fast-food advertisements. “The fundamental […]
Human Rights Night panelists address refugee crisis, human trafficking
Tania Rashid saw pieces of American-branded, blood-soaked clothing scattered among the rubble of fallen buildings after a Bangladeshi garment factory collapsed in 2013 and killed more than 1,000 people. Rashid, then a reporter for Al Jazeera, was a panelist at Human Rights Night, an event hosted by Fresh START at UCLA and LA Stop the […]
The Hill to have break from renovations during 2016-2017 academic year
UCLA Housing will not renovate any residential buildings during the 2016-2017 academic year, after nearly a decade of annual renovations on the Hill. All the construction and renovation projects on the Hill have been completed over the past seven to eight years, said UCLA spokesperson Rebecca Kendall in an email statement. She added no buildings […]