I joined the Daily Bruin my first year to meet boys.

Most people characterize spring as a time of re-birth, of new beginnings.

What was originally pitched as a “Saturday Night Live” sketch about MacGyver’s stepbrother who diffuses bombs using pieces of poop and pubic hair is now a feature-length movie titled “MacGruber.”

Sitting around on the couch Sunday night in a post-“Pretty Wild” stupor, my friends and I surfed channels as we discussed the full-frontal nudity in the episode, the mother’s attempt at pole dancing in front of her daughter’s date and the hit band Wicker, when something on TeenNick stopped us dead in our tracks.

Architect Frank Lloyd Wright said, “Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.”

I am not a crook. But on Monday, April 12 at 8:32 a.m., I felt like one.

Bret Easton Ellis published his first novel “Less Than Zero” in 1985 when he was 21 and a student at Bennington College.

With all of its fist-pumping, hair-spiking, spray-tanning, dance-floor-battling glory, MTV’s “Jersey Shore” was an unparalleled success for the network.

April 20 is the high holy holiday for stoners across the world (pun definitely intended), and you can bet Snoop Dogg will be celebrating with a joint or two or twelve.

Inside a tie-dyed drawstring bag hangs a 12-inch version of one of literature’s most complex characters, Don Quixote.