You would be hard-pressed to find a single UCLA student who doesn’t feel that their rent is too high.
It’s no secret that renting in Los Angeles is ridiculously expensive, with the median rent for a two-bedroom apartment currently sitting at around $3,000.

According to a recent report, the eight richest individuals in the world have as much combined wealth as the poorest 50 percent. In other words, at a small inconvenience to eight inordinately rich men, the living standard of half of the world’s people could be doubled.

Students are under a huge amount of pressure to find new ways to distinguish themselves in an increasingly oversaturated job market. As a result, they naturally gravitate toward any available shortcuts, such as easy-A general education classes.

While the UCLA community voted overwhelmingly Democratic, 62 million U.S. citizens voted for a president who claims climate change is a hoax created by the Chinese.

We Americans pride ourselves on our uniqueness: We have yet to adopt the metric system, we use Fahrenheit and we even write our dates differently. We also lead the world as one of the only major developed nations without universal healthcare.

The other day I biked down to Target, hoping this time I wouldn’t see the same lady I always see laying outside. I was deeply saddened to see that for the third year running, she was still sitting at the same spot.

UCLA is a university where a select few are granted an academic advantage based on whether or not they have joined organizations that cost hundreds of dollars a quarter, that have a national history of flagrant racism or that require already high minimum GPAs to join.

On Monday night, the first presidential debate took place. Many things were said, including the dubious claims that Donald Trump is not “braggadocious,” that the entirety of the economic recovery is due to a “big, fat, ugly bubble” and that the Democratic National Convention could have been hacked by “somebody sitting on their bed who weighs 400 pounds.” Yet amid all this, very little mention was made of what arguably matters most: college and student debt.

Millenials lean left, further left than any other generation, yet it wasn’t enough to win Bernie the democratic nomination. So what’s next? How do we effectively mobilize this progressive sentiment to provoke real change?

Both Brexit and Donald Trump are examples of a gross misunderstanding of the neoliberal, globalized world we live in, and they will only make things worse for the common man.