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The Quad: A breakdown of Hill student demographics

“All the first-years live in Hedrick,” is a hackneyed statement many incoming first-year students hear when they’re finding out more about UCLA, scouring the pages of Facebook groups and College Confidential. It’s a given that Hedrick Hall is filled with first-year students due to its distance from campus. However, the student demographics of the other […]

Coffee Cultured: Common coffee-making methods

From latte art videos on Facebook to not-so-witty quotes on T-shirts, coffee is an indisputable aspect of our everyday lives. Every frappy hour is national news, and liking the taste of coffee is viewed as a mark of adulthood. I don’t claim to be a coffee expert that can easily discern between single-origin coffees and […]

Coffee Cultured: Cold Brew

Coffee Cultured: An Introduction

The Quad: Upsides and downsides of on-campus jobs

This post was updated Nov. 4 at 4:30 p.m. During the school year, many UCLA students opt to hold on-campus jobs. Some do it in order to pay for college as part of work-study, while others work for extra pocket money, valuable experience or another bullet on their resume. Compared to many off-campus jobs, ones […]

The Quad: Cal vs. UCLA

For some lucky high school seniors, the impending May 1 deadline that is national college decision day will be a decision between UCLA, UC Berkeley and other top schools. The hardworking students who face the dilemma of choosing between the two top-ranked public universities in the United States may simply be told by well-intending high […]

My weeklong vegan experiment on the Hill

With diets that frequently come and go, we are inundated with a plethora of constantly changing and often conflicting information on what to eat and what not to eat. It’s hard to discern what the optimal diet truly is – even the food pyramid of our childhood is now void. Currently, one of the biggest […]