I have always firmly believed that everything happens for a reason. Fresh out of a relationship, and hoping to prove something to myself, I joined the Daily Bruin on a whim my second year at UCLA. I navigated the chaos of the Enormous Activities Fair, where then-Arts & Entertainment editors Will Thorne and Lindsay Weinberg […]
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The Bruin provided a warm environment for undertaking challenges -30-
If I’m not talking about UCLA UniCamp, then you’ll probably find me talking about Daily Bruin. If you met me four years ago, I probably wasn’t talking at all. I was a painfully shy first-year, who wanted so badly to be comfortable in an environment where she enjoyed the presence of the people around her […]
After four years, I finally ended up where I was meant to be -30-
This post was updated June 11 at 7:58 a.m. I was not supposed to be here. Or at least that was what it felt like all those years ago. As distant of a memory he may be, high school senior Ryan was in the midst of accepting his fate at a different university before UCLA […]
Reminiscing about time in the newsroom is like creating headlines -30-
One thing a lot of people don’t know about journalism is that writers do not normally write the headlines of their stories. Or, well, at least I didn’t know that before I joined the Daily Bruin. That’s the copy editor’s job. The copy editor writes the headline because the copy editor is supposed to be […]
Preparing my goodbye to the office that gave me a creative outlet and a voice -30-
As someone who flew over 8,000 miles to come here for school, I’m no stranger to goodbyes. They’re often tear-filled hugs, drowned out by airline announcements and the sterile scent of disinfectants. But when I leave campus in a week, my goodbye with the Daily Bruin is going to be different. I joined the Daily […]
Unexpected introduction to news reporting challenged me to be bold -30-
When I joined the Daily Bruin during the winter quarter of my second year, I was simply an observant bystander. I was always interested in journalism, but wasn’t confident in my abilities because I lacked experience. As a Radio intern, I would read the stories and visit the office regularly, but did not contribute anything […]
Finding confidence among the confusion while coding for The Bruin -30-
I wanted to be a copy editor for the Daily Bruin more than anything, long before I even knew how to write a line of code. I loved looking for the minute details, the things that didn’t always matter to most people. Given my clickbait-y headline suggestions for The Stack this year, I’m glad past […]