College may very well be the best four years of a person’s life, but reports show that college students are more stressed out nowadays than they have ever been before. This stress creates a breeding ground for mental health ailments, with approximately 37 percent of college students having depression, anxiety or stress. In recognition of this […]
Category Archives: Lifestyle
The Quad: Discovering the healthy side of fatty foods
Although low-carb and gluten-free diets dominate the cultural conversation around health and wellness today, lowfat diets were once en vogue. While today we have finally been disabused of the idea all fat is unhealthy, the legacy of the low-fat era still exists today. Walking down the aisles in the Westwood Ralph’s, one can see a […]
Throwback Thursday: Perusing Daily Bruin’s 1957 magazine ‘The New Pacific’
When you’re stressed about work, school or the impending abyss that is the post-graduation “real world,” some light-hearted literature helps take the edge off. Between Buzzfeed quizzes, lifestyle sites and the vast array of random but entertaining websites, there’s no shortage of ways for today’s students to unwind for an hour or two. I myself […]
The Quad: January 2017’s Daily Bruin Roundup
This February, we are introducing the Quad’s monthly Daily Bruin Roundup, a recap of the previous month’s Daily Bruin articles you should have read (but maybe didn’t), touching on campus, local and national events. We’re one month into 2017 and Donald Trump’s presidency has only just begun. January was a month of change, to say […]
Wellness Wednesday: Social media and romanticizing of mental health issues
College may very well be the best four years of a person’s life, but reports show that college students are more stressed out nowadays than they have ever been before. This stress creates a breeding ground for mental health ailments, with approximately 37 percent of college students having depression, anxiety or stress. In recognition of this […]
The Quad: Citywide event dineL.A. relished by students on a shoestring
If you consider yourself a “foodie,” follow Los Angeles events or ate out at a restaurant in the past two weeks, I’m guessing you’ve heard of dineL.A. With over 300 participating restaurants spread out all over the city, dineL.A.’s special menus were hard to miss. And with seven Westwood restaurants partaking in this 15-day event, […]
The Quad: Exploring LA’s matcha tea cafes
There is nothing better than a cup of freshly brewed matcha tea to warm a person up after freezing in the cold, wet winter of Los Angeles this year. Over the break, driven by my passion for matcha, I went on a quest to investigate matcha cafes all around LA and created this guide to […]