Category Archives: Opinion

UCLA offers hundreds of classes to its students. Tragically, however, no student will ever come close to taking full advantage of these wonderful educational opportunities. Enter BruinCast. Every day, thousands of students use BruinCast, a UCLA service that provides video and audio recordings of lectures. Though most students use BruinCast to catch up on missed […]

Everything is vibrant. The grass is green, the sun is setting, the air is warm. It’s golden hour on a summer evening in a quiet suburban neighborhood. I eye a glass of ice that sits on a table in front of me. Children run, laugh and scream as they enjoy their seasonal freedom. A wind […]

“The Daily Bruin has a blog? I didn’t know!” I can’t count the number of times I’ve heard that reaction, especially in my earlier years at The Bruin. It’s strange now when I hear of people reading my blog posts, sharing them widely and appreciating them for what they are – a distinctly modern addition […]

I’ve been in the Daily Bruin since my first year at UCLA, but I’m still not great with words. From the very beginning, I’ve made videos: I’ve always only been in charge of recording, shaping, documenting and interviewing people. I’ve always been able to let others speak into a lens and simply edit the material […]

I hate writing for Opinion. Sometimes. Sometimes, the column-writing process directly contradicts things I’ve learned in college. During these years at UCLA, I’ve learned to complicate and question – how to seek nuance, listen to others and empathize with their perspectives, or challenge them where necessary. I always tell people that my major, human biology […]

I’m going to take your letter to Santa Claus, in the North Pole. It’s only a drive away from where I work, my dad told me one December morning. I was thrilled to be living in so close to Santa. Those times were beautiful – my dad would tell me about the Aurora Borealis he […]

I came to UCLA as an eager transfer student prepared to take on the opportunities this institution has to offer. I wore hard work, determination and confidence as my armor – time, my greatest enemy. The two years I would spend here seemed like a countdown. And so I was on a race and everyday […]