I was in my first college discussion section. Italian history. The syllabus encouraged class participation to earn the highest grade. Our TA kicked off the section by asking about our thoughts on the reading.

Nicki Klein sat idle at her corporate job in the years after graduating from UCLA, wishing she could find a career as captivating as the Legos and puzzles she played with for hours as a child.

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A 24-hour study space and cafe is scheduled to open in Hedrick Hall winter 2017, with an increased budget of $9.1 million.

It took Ken and Jill Eltrich three years to realize the 5-pound rock they were using as a doorstop was a 4.5-billion-year-old meteorite.
After almost another year of reading up on the meteorite, the couple decided they wanted to share the stone with others and loaned it to the UCLA Meteorite Gallery.

Students in Jack Caughey’s class can turn in annotated McDonald’s menus and “interview” poems for class assignments.
Caughey, a teaching assistant for English 4W: “Critical Reading and Writing,” encourages students to build their own syllabi.

Tania Rashid saw pieces of American-branded, blood-soaked clothing scattered among the rubble of fallen buildings after a Bangladeshi garment factory collapsed in 2013 and killed more than 1,000 people.

UCLA Housing will not renovate any residential buildings during the 2016-2017 academic year, after nearly a decade of annual renovations on the Hill.
All the construction and renovation projects on the Hill have been completed over the past seven to eight years, said UCLA spokesperson Rebecca Kendall in an email statement.

UCLA faculty members expressed their opinions and concerns about the new University of California-wide pension plan at a town hall meeting Thursday.
Susan Cochran, vice chair of the UCLA Academic Senate, said the senate held the meeting to better understand faculty opinions before making recommendations to the systemwide senate.

Malik Chaudhary’s contradictory upbringing led him to question everything.
Chaudhary was born to immigrant parents, grew up gay in a traditional Muslim household and attended a Catholic high school.