We’ve all felt the overwhelming emotions that come with closing your front door for the very last time before you’re off to college: the rushed final hugs with your parents or the recurring feelings of distance and vast vacancy. At the end of the day when you finally sit back in your bed to let […]
Category Archives: The Quad
Bird rustles feathers but the scooters will nest in LA for now
The Bird has had quite a turbulent flight this summer. August was a particularly tumultuous month for the sleek little electric scooters scattered throughout Los Angeles and other urban areas across the nation, which customers can use via a mobile phone app. Whether it be Lime, Bird or Spin, local governments have been making more […]
The Quad: Students have a lot to weigh in choice between UC SHIP and private health insurance
One of the most mind-boggling decisions an incoming freshman or transfer will have to make is whether to use a private insurance plan or adopt the University of California Student Health Insurance Plan, the system’s health insurance package for students. It’s mandatory to have health insurance at UCLA, so don’t get stuck trying to make […]
The Quad: Students share experiences of apartment living, from moving to managing finances
The beginning of September means the new school year – and the hectic move-in season that comes along with it – is rapidly approaching. While some students prepare to move in to the dorms, many plan to settle in to cozy Westwood apartments. Living in an apartment is an exciting new prospect. However, if you […]
The Quad: California’s worsening wildfires and record-high temperatures by the numbers
California’s wildfires are getting worse. They have been for years. While this summer’s wildfire season isn’t over just yet, news outlets across the country have been suggesting that 2018 could be California’s worst year for wildfires. Two of this summer’s fires – the Mendocino Complex fire and the Carr fire – top the list of […]
The Quad: Upperclassmen share advice to ease first-year stresses and growing pains
My first steps on campus as a student consisted of a series of changes, such as the unusually hot sunshine in late September that was quite different from my cool hometown in New York. Moreover, the huge campus, the even larger student body and numerous student organizations were all mysteries that made it seem like […]
The Quad: Recent filmography of UCLA, cinema’s go-to university
UCLA has been a movie and television-set hotspot for decades. Even for students who did not spot Janss Steps, Royce Hall or Kerckhoff Coffee House in a major Hollywood picture prior to arriving at UCLA, many saw the famous spots on their first tour of the campus. Though titles like “Legally Blonde” are timeless and […]