I recently wrote a blog about getting to know your roommates BEFORE you actually live with them. Now, ladies and gentlemen, it’s time to get into the topics you deal with AFTER you move in and start living with your roommates. There is a saying that goes “You don’t really know a person until you…
Category: Life on campus
Packing Tips— Part 1
(In all honesty, this post is really for me to organize my thoughts and prepare for the grueling packing experience that awaits me (my room looks like a Goodwill collection center (don’t get any ideas, Mom…))) Packing. It is incredibly important. Without packing, your clothes would just be in the trunk of your car, intermingling…
The stairs at UCLA and why the ones they call the “Awkward Steps” are the only ones that feel right
Let me start by saying that I am 6’2″ (6’3″ if you ask my mom), and more than half of that is my legs. I am what you would call extremely lanky, spider-like, even. If I didn’t love eating ice cream so much, I would make one hell of a long distance runner. With that…
Floor Government (and why you shoudn’t be anything except for Publicity Chair)
When you get into your dorm room as a first year, you are going to be assaulted with information. You will get info on alcohol danger, what to do when you are walking home alone at night, how to join the writer’s club, etc etc. One thing that your RAs will be pushing on you…
Campus Celebrities
After being away from campus for three weeks as I enjoyed a vacation in Vancouver, Canada and its vicinity with my family, my absence seemed to have been much longer than that. Amongst my friends catching me up on what I had missed, what amused me the most was their insistence that I realised that Miley Cyrus…
For Freshmen: Getting to Know your Roommates before Move In
As incoming Freshmen, the one thing that most intrigues us about going away for college is the living ‘in’ college part. Before moving into UCLA, I loved filling out my housing application and inputting my living preferences, etc. I submitted my application, paid the fee, and waited patiently to receive my housing offer letter. The…
Bunches of fun
This post is for those of you who like dancing. Fall quarter of last year was a time of lots and lots of change for me. I started new classes, ate three meals a day with people my age, and began doing my own laundry. Perhaps the biggest change for me was saying goodbye to…
Advice for Incoming Bruins: Using the Ashe Center
Welcome, freshmen Bruins! As you are getting ready to transition into your new life at UCLA, I’m sure you and your parents have many questions about the campus and its amenities. Where will I eat? What can I do on weekends? Where do I meet people? Although these are all important questions, one of my…
Dorms continued!
OK! Meal plans. You can choose from five meal plans. You can either have 19, 14, or 11 meals a week, and the 19 and 14 plans have a premiere option. Basically, with premiere you get a bunch of benefits: your meal swipes roll over from week to week you can swipe people in you…
Dorms!
By now I would guess that all y’all have gotten your dorm assignments. This post will be an introduction to: some background on dorms at UCLA the types of dorms we have and my next post will cover… meal plans roommates some of the cool things we have on the Hill my dorming experience Ok,…
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