Ring! Ring! Riiiiiiiing!Huh? It’s 6 a.m. already?Didn’t I just fall asleep 10 minutes ago…Snooze!Damn it, it’s 6:45 now!I jumble through my drawer for my volleyball uniform,Stuff a bagel in my mouth,Trip over last night’s dirty clothes,and almost cho
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Posted by Trevor Brown on October 15, 2009 at 6:37pm
Trevor BrownArt and Arch 10October 8, 2009Who I AmI, Trevor Michael Brown, am a warrior. I am a full-time student-athlete, obsessed with the game of baseball, and determined to succeed at one of the top universities in the country. I consider my scho
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The road getting to UCLA was not as easy as people think. Now I am a student athlete and people assume I have it all. A scholarship for five years and earned a starting position on the most well-known softball programs across the nation. College is t
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I am not one of those dancers who mindlessly copies the movements of their teachers or one who dances tentatively in fear of judgment. I am a dancer who moves from the heart and uses dance as a means of communication, far deeper than that of words. I
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I have always been a person who has always wanted to make a person’s day better. Because of this, I have always found myself dedicating my spare time to some form of volunteer work. It gives me a sense of accomplishment when I can help make someone’s
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Posted by Alby Delgado on October 15, 2009 at 6:30pm
When I was growing up, I didn’t have the tools to go to college nor did I know what college was. I grew up in a low-income neighborhood where college was usually not an option. As I got older I started to think of my future and how life would be like
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Posted by Kelly Smith on October 15, 2009 at 6:29pm
I stopped riding my bike when I was old enough to drive. In fact, I probably stopped riding my bike in the fifth grade. I don’t know why, but I suppose it has something to do with the fact that riding a bike is for “kids,” or so I thought.Fast-forwar
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Posted by Kelly Smith on October 15, 2009 at 6:26pm
I stopped riding my bike when I was old enough to drive. In fact, I probably stopped riding my bike in the fifth grade. I don’t know why, but I suppose it has something to do with the fact that riding a bike is for “kids,” or so I thought.Fast-forwar
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Posted by Charlie Ho on October 15, 2009 at 6:24pm
Charlie HoDis 1C“Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge” –StendhalI thought about what I said in a class discussion I once had, I was not telling the truth, not the whole truth anyways. As I sit here now thinking about why I do what I do a
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Cecilia Johanna Coetsee. Dogter van Josef en Cecilia Coetsee. Sussie van Marilie and Abram Coetsee. An American girl with Suid-Afrikanse bloed. ‘A humble follower of Jesus Christ.I’m a neurotic heading in a thousand directions. A hardworking, and con
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Posted by Brandon Ho on October 15, 2009 at 6:21pm
What makes me who I am? I am a 20 year old student at UCLA who is majoring in Business Economics, minoring in Accounting and specializing in Programming in Computing. I don’t really think there is anything about me that makes me stand out too much fr
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Posted by Marro K Park on October 15, 2009 at 6:20pm
I’ve always done things for people, REALLY. But do I do so with good, selfless intentions? Most definitely not. I’ve done and always will do things for people, but I do it expecting something in return. It’s something I can’t produce on my own, somet
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Posted by Xiomara Gomez on October 15, 2009 at 6:15pm
I applied, entered, and remain in school because I was told that this is the path everyone takes or at least should take to succeed in life. A new world filled with more responsibilities, stress, worries, and above all, filled with questions. I was c
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Posted by Ilana Goren on October 15, 2009 at 6:10pm
Ilana GorenArts & Arc 10“Why do you do what you do?”I have a million different thoughts going through my head at any given moment. I worry all the time, and the thought, “What if…?” is a constant presence in my mind. I am the child of divorced parent
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I have two birthdays. I was born on December 30th, 1989 but my parents changed it to January 1st, 1990. The reason they changed it was because they had a rough and unlucky year in 1989 with miscarriages and bad businesses. They wanted their new baby
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The road getting to UCLA was not as easy as people think. Now I am a student athlete and people assume I have it all. A scholarship for five years and earned a starting position on the most well-known softball programs across the nation. College is t
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Posted by Jennifer Lam on October 15, 2009 at 6:02pm
People take music for granted. I love listening to music at anytime of the day. I wake up to my favorite song in the morning. I enjoy music when I’m getting ready to go to class, eating my breakfast, walking to class and back to my room. I feel like
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Posted by Silvia Ahn on October 15, 2009 at 6:00pm
Music on.Body moves.Sweat drops.Finally, a release to freedom!I am…a dancer.No, I did not perform in any grand theater or even a small one at that, but I do consider myself a dancer.I began dancing jazz and hip hop routines since the age of fifteen,
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Posted by Michael Le on October 15, 2009 at 6:00pm
If you knew me and I told you I was once traditional and reserved, you’d tell me straight up I was a damn liar. For the most part, yeah, you can say that what I do is technically lying, but let me say, when I tell you why I do it, it’s definitely no
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Wake up in the morning, drive over an hour to get to school, go to lectures, and drive over an hour to get back home. Spend many sleepless nights studying for midterms and finals, and all for what? The answer is quite simple: to make something of mys
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