Category Archives: Opinion Columns

I struggle to find a more difficult moment in my life than the one in the waiting room of the Daily Bruin on April 6, 2012. I sat staring at my cell phone trying to cry but not having the ability to do so. I was numb. I was angry. I was embarrassed. All I […]

I think that at some point, every senior has an end-of-college crisis. Mine came while I was filling out the activities section of my medical school application. Daily Bruin Sports: assistant editor and senior staffer. That’s it? Four years of writing wraps on wraps on previews on wraps while spending countless hours in the windowless […]

As UCLA students, each of you arrived on campus with your own unique talents, background and ambitions. At the same time, you also shared some important qualities with your fellow students – a thirst to excel, a knack for leadership and a commitment to making the world around you a better place. One of the […]

I’m staring at a white board in the Kerckhoff Hall conference room where I’ve spent countless hours in Daily Bruin budget meetings. Inside a sketch of a page, someone has written four words in brown dry erase marker. “This is your story.” It is, isn’t it? At the Daily Bruin, we wrangle stories like unbroken […]

Sometimes, I wish I was a cat. Not only so I could sleep all day and shamelessly ignore people I don’t like, but also to have nine lives. In one of my lifetimes, I’d follow my current path of selling my soul to law school debt. In another, I’d be a professional chef. But one, […]

I have to admit, it feels strange not to begin one of these things with a dateline. It was always step one in the process. Sit down and write the name of the city you’re in. If I got nothing else right – and I got a lot of things wrong on these pages over […]

Damn, we are some lucky people. There was a brief moment this quarter when I was walking from the Franklin D. Murphy Sculpture Garden toward Kerckhoff Hall and everything got quiet and the sunlight was slanted a particular way and the breeze and, I don’t know, but the combination of everything seemed perfect. I experienced […]