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The Quad: On finding your niche in college

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Hailing from the Midwest, UCLA was as foreign to me as California’s year-round summer weather and the 405 traffic. Desperate for any anchor of familiarity during my first quarter, I let my extrovert tendencies run wild in my race to establish my place on this campus and reaped more dead ends than I did connections.

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The Quad: On finding your niche in college

By Yao Lin

March 11, 2017 1:15 p.m.