Three years is an oddly indefinable period of time. Some days, my stint at UCLA seemed interminable.
Some days, it seemed all too transitory. And now, as I sit here typing up the text that will bear my very last byline in the Daily Bruin, I can’t help but realize that both sentiments, opposing as they may be, are incongruously true.

When I imagine average graduate students writing massive, book-length dissertations, I see tired figures, slumped over desks with dark circles under their eyes and piles of books scattered beside them.

Upon entering my final fall quarter at UCLA, I considered myself extremely lucky to have made it to the brink of graduation having never written a single research paper.

I am anything but a vegetarian.

When I stare at my resume, the text describing my memberships in ALD & PES and Golden Key, another honor society at UCLA, mocks me.
Having just joined Mortar Board this year, that brings my total to a whopping three honor societies listed on my resume, two of which I can comfortably say I’ve had no involvement in.

Daily Bruin Opinion editor, Serli Polatoglu, offers welcome, advice

The prospect of the largest freshman class in UCLA’s history has sent administrators and faculty scrambling to expand classes to meet future demands.

One student group has been unable to find a place to meet on campus because a wall of insurance problems stand in the way, despite efforts that have lasted more than a year.

Volunteer Day coordinators are working with student government officers to help make students feel more connected to their volunteer sites in 2011.

Bruins United candidate Emily Resnick was elected president, and her slate captured a majority of the seats in undergraduate student government for next year.