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This fall, students who moved into on-campus housing and undergraduate university apartments isolated in their rooms for several days as part of UCLA&#039;s efforts to prevent the spread of COVID-19. (Kanishka Mehra/Photo editor)

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This post was updated Oct. 5 at 12:36 a.m. Alone in her dorm, Eliza Huang FaceTimed her friend for an entire day to fill in the unfamiliar silence.

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UCLA housing isolation proves to be lonely, but students look forward to freedom

By Anushka Chakrabarti

Oct. 2, 2020 5:02 p.m.