Best memories come from time well spent
By Johanna Davy
June 13, 2004 9:00 p.m.
I’ve been at the Daily Bruin for five quarters. I wish I
had been here for all four years.
I am almost 22, graduating with two unemployable majors (French
and English), and about to head off to Montpelier, France, to teach
English to French children.
There are a lot of things I wish I had done differently at UCLA
(studied more, joined more clubs), but I don’t regret the
time I spent at The Bruin.
Some of my fondest memories include wandering around Westwood
singing “Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots” with the
A&E music writers, playing spin the bottle at 4 a.m., and
finding out at the Daily Bruin banquet that a bunch of A&E
girls had made out with a certain male writer.
I’d been a Bruin reader since my freshman year, but the
thought of joining never occurred to me until winter quarter of my
junior year, when I went to a party thrown by my friend who was
then head of the design department. I met a bunch of Bruin people
and thought, “Why not apply?”
In spring quarter of ’03, the A&E department switched
from a daily page to a weekly magazine, which gave us more creative
freedom but caused me endless irritation when I would see people
pick up the newspaper on Thursdays, pull out the magazine ““
and put it back on the newsstand! Grrrr.
We work hard, people. It’s not all free movies and
interviews with Ashton Kutcher.
I don’t know where my life is going after next year
““ whether I’ll pursue journalism or marketing or PR or
achieve my ultimate goal of becoming a trophy wife.
But if I can give one piece of advice to my fellow Bruins (and
these Daily Bruin columns are all about strangers giving advice
that will probably be ignored), it would be this: This is your
time. Don’t waste it. It will be over before you know it.
Davy was a 2003-2004 dB Magazine film writer.
