“Dear freshman Eldrin,” starts political science student Eldrin Masangkay, “Every time you see something that may taste good, just remember that in 4 years you will gain about 15 pounds. Yours truly, graduating Eldrin.” Watch as senior Daily Bruin staffers share the advice they would give their freshman selves.
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‘Amateur Strategies’ art workshop builds walls in Kerckhoff
Second-year political science student Weiwen Balter meets artist Cedric Tai in what they both claim as a “serendipitous” encounter. This chance meeting leads to the CAC month-long, weekly art series workshop “Amateur Strategies” in the Kerckhoff art gallery space. Inspired by the restriction of no drilling holes in the space, Tai’s interactive art piece invites […]
Songs and Stories: Tom Shay
“I’ve never really played many shows,” says third-year international development studies student Isaiah Murtagh. Murtaugh and his roommate, third-year geography and environmental studies student Andre Arifin, will perform at Saturday night’s Spring Sing 2016, having met through mutual friends. Watch as they play Murtaugh’s original song, “Imaging,” a song inspired by Murtaugh’s past.
Professors read mean reviews
Countless reviews find their way on the Internet as students — passioned or indifferent — post their own thoughts on classes and teachers around the campus. Watch as UCLA professors read and react to some of these student’s anonymous comments.
USAC election 2016 highlights
Daily Bruin Video captures reactions to the results of the 2016 USAC elections in one of UCLA’s highest years of voter turnout.
Sounds of Schoenberg: Instruments of gamelan
Otto Stuparitz, a graduate ethnomusicology student studying Indonesian music, demonstrates the calming sounds of a variety of gamelan instruments. From the low pound of the Indonesian gong to the high-frequency melodies of the gamelan saron, Stuparitz displays an array of percussive elements.
UCLA concrete canoe team wins ASCE regional conference
The UCLA concrete canoe team won the ASCE regional concrete canoe conference on April 1. Centering around the theme “Speakeasy,” the team designed, mixed, constructed and raced its concrete canoe to first place. Maxwell Armenta, a fourth-year civil engineering student and concrete canoe project manager, attributes this year’s success to a dedicated freshman membership and […]