If I had three words to depict the most meaningful part of the last four years, it would not be “attending linguistics lecture,” “exploring Los Angeles” or “drinking wine again.” As is true for many of the 30 columnists on this page, it would be “the Daily Bruin.”

This paper has given me many memorable experiences.

Rachel Swimmer sat outside of Ackerman Union, dressed in skintight jeans, platform heels, white wifebeater, sea green velour jacket and a key-shaped charm necklace.

My senior year has been punctuated by the recipes I’ve used for cooking. The finale, a Filipino dessert called Turon, gave me everything I could have asked for from an ending ““ the laugh of the year, accompanied by a taste so terrible that my taste buds are still haunted by it.

Well, it’s the big one. The grand-daddy of film awards, the 83rd Annual Academy Awards, and the Daily Bruin arts & entertainment editors will be here live blogging the show. Join us at 5 p.m. on Feb. 27 as we watch UCLA alumnus James Franco co-host the awards show with actress Anne Hathaway. We’ll be covering it all from the winners to the speeches to the fashion as we count down to the top awards. Follow along, leave a comment and participate in our interactive polls throughout the evening.

It’s a small world after all. A few days go, one of my fellow editors told me that she went to a dinner party where the host served bruschetta as an appetizer, which turned out to be the bruschetta recipe I wrote about in my last column.

Maryia Krivoruchko, our very own Arts & Entertainment editor, will be sending us her comments and rants throughout the 26-hour event. Follow along here to get a firsthand account of Dance Marathon through the eyes of a dancer.

Jan. 1 came as a shock this year when I couldn’t reach for a piece of toast the morning after New Year’s Eve.

While making bruschetta with sous-chef and culinary school alumnus Ryan Tong this week, the answer to the question of my two-quarter column dawned on me.

America’s food industries have hit a new low.

On Tuesday, Starbucks debuted the trenta drink size, a 31-ounce cup for iced drinks, essentially an even more caffeine-drenched Big Gulp.

But DiGiorno has stepped up its game too, which went more unnoticed than the new, obscenely large drink. Now, when baking a frozen pizza, there’s no need to worry about dessert, because “DiGiorno Pizza & Cookies” comes with a batch of frozen Nestle cookie dough.