Something is very, very wrong with a world where donuts and cupcakes are sold in 100-calorie packs. Cynics can tritely accuse the media, the fashion world and the shrinking size of Hollywood celebrities all they want, but society’s collective resort to portion-sizing, carb-avoiding and calorie-counting indicates more than skin-deep desires to look attractive. Living in […]
Author Archives: Lana Yoo
Campus’s north-south division just a way to pigeonhole passions
Right now, I’m writing my first bona fide North Campus paper, and I’m pulling my hair out ““ perhaps more so than before I crossed over from the enemy line of South Campus. Maybe this is my punishment for forsaking my allegiance to the world of lab coats, DNA and titrations as a biology major […]
Immigration laws split families, don’t make sense
I was 7, and it was my first day of school in America. The kids tightly surrounded me with their benevolent faces, all chattering to me at once. I didn’t speak a lick of English, though, and out of sheer terror I began to cry, wondering, “Why am I here in America?” Like many other […]
Professors should explore new ways to engage students in lecture
Reading some of the professor reviews on BruinWalk is like reading death threats. They read something like, “AVOID THIS PROFESSOR AT ALL COSTS!!!!! The lectures are boring, terrible and only good for doing crossword puzzles.” However, the real culprit for ineffective learning is not the professor but rather the restrictions of the traditional lecture setting. […]
Victoria holds the secrets of sexuality
Lana Yoo Victoria may or may not really have a secret, but she sure stirs peculiarities ““ one of them being the significance of the Victoria’s Secret Semi-Annual Sale, currently going on until the end of January. It’s pretty bizarre, really. How can a lingerie chain’s sales be calendar-marking events? Yet, we find women piling […]
Don’t teach the gender gap
I like drawing, but that doesn’t mean I do it well. So I wasn’t too offended when my friend challenged me to draw a bicycle and found I couldn’t, but then she said, “See, that’s because you’re a girl.” She didn’t say this in a condescending or defeated way, but rather matter-of-factly. “Girls just can’t […]
BruinCast enhances classes
With the holidays around the corner, I’m reminded of what I’m thankful for this season. And strangely enough, BruinCast is somewhere at the top of my list of blessings. BruinCast is a service that provides Internet-accessible videocasts and audiocasts of currently selected lectures. Because of the fast-paced, time-constrained, dense nature of lectures, BruinCast is an […]