It’s 10 p.m., Thursday night, and your assignment is due in two hours. But those two pieces of sourdough bread you ate with dinner haunt your thoughts. After you had one piece, you couldn’t stop yourself from having a second. If you squeeze in a nine-mile run now, you will only have 30 minutes to […]
Author Archives: Tabatha Lewis-Simó
When you’re not studying on a UC campus, you shouldn’t be charged like you are
The University of Deusto in Bilbao is one of the bougier, private universities in Spain. Students walk in, clad in Michael Kors, and are willing to pay up to 6,000 euros a year for a degree in psychology. That’s still less than what we pay at UCLA, a public university in California. It’s no secret […]
’10 Questions’ beholds beauty in film, theater, art and evolutionary biology
This post was updated Oct. 24 at 9:05 p.m. The “10 Questions” lecture series, which will address a different question each week, doubles as a course for students and a panel open to the public. The series will explore open-ended questions such as “What is beauty?”, “What is failure?” and “What is knowledge?” Each week’s […]
Filing petitions at UCLA is bogglingly time-consuming. We need to streamline.
Thursday, 9 a.m., week eight. A 30-minute-long line awaits you at the bottom of Murphy Hall. When it’s finally your turn, you try to drop off that petition form to finally get rid of that 10 a.m. class you can never quite make it to. You realize too late, though, that you haven’t gotten your […]
Tabatha Lewis: Funding for student advocates should come from UC, not from students themselves
This post was updated Aug. 15 at 4:44 p.m. Some things you can buy with $100,000 include a Tesla, a condo or a speedboat – but not the four years at UCLA you invest in hopes of better career prospects. The cost of in-state tuition at UCLA has increased by about $2,000 since 2010. This […]
UC Regents recap – July 18-19
The governing board of the University of California met for its July meeting at UC San Francisco from Wednesday to Thursday. The regents discussed the next fiscal year’s budget plan, next year’s student regent designate and student advisor, and the rollback of a student legal fee. Board Davis residents asked the regents to not approve […]
Campus Queries: Why does sun exposure lead to sunburns?
Campus Queries is a series in which Daily Bruin readers and staff present science-related questions for UCLA professors and experts to answer. Q. Why does the skin turn red and peel due to sun exposure? A. Nearly half of all young adults get sunburned, according to a CDC survey. Roger S. Lo, a UCLA dermatologist, […]