Alternative Breaks at UC San Diego provides students with the unique opportunity to develop their identities as active citizens. Each year, teams of 12 volunteers form to collaborate with nonprofit organizations...

A quick glance around campus and the class divide is relatively apparent. Eager freshmen are identified by a hopeful gait and an iconic lanyard laced across their necks. Sophomores still manage to maintain...

How to Get Better Sleep by: Annika Olives, Lifestyle Co-Editor You’re at an impasse. Five coffees in, only half the day is over. You can’t hear what your political science professor is saying over...

Student Poets Break the Silence // written by: Annika Olives, Lifestyle Co-Editor Thurgood Marshall College sophomore Maria Omelchenko found her knack for poetry in elementary school. “I think back...

Written by Nadia Link, Lifestyle Columnist THWACK! Cindy shot up, instantly scanning her pitch-black surroundings. The room was too dark to see anything but she knew she wasn’t alone … She tried to...

A Spring Awakening // written by: Brittney Lu Break the tradition that states January is the only time of year to proclaim a renewed sense of self. A new season is in bloom and, come new buds and sprouts,...

written by: Brittney Lu, Lifestyle Co-Editor Three times a year — four, when including the masochistic need to take summer session to graduate on time — we undergo the horror that is finals week....

San Francisco // written by: Annika Olives, Lifestyle Associate Editor  Nestled between ocean and bay, San Francisco is an incredibly popular tourist destination famous for its orange-red (not golden!)...

written by: Nadia Link, Lifestyle Contributing Columnist I am the last person you should take fashion advice from. Whenever my friends ask me, “which one looks better?” my answer usually contrasts...

written by: Jocelyn Yang and Tara Nejad, Lifestyle Staff Writers Time for spring cleaning? Family or friends secretly nominate you for a humiliating episode of “What Not to Wear?”  No worries —...

written by: Brittney Lu, InterVarsity Leader “What’s your name? Major? College? How can I take everything about you and throw it into a nine-digit code to make it easier to upload your grades online?...

written by: Annika Olives Coming into UC San Diego, I declared psychology without a second thought. It had long been my favorite subject — I loved the brain, but I also loved analyzing humans, and...