Archive for May 31st, 2010
Alternative Fuel Car Race
Last Sunday, a group of UCI engineering students took home first place at the first annual UCI Energy Invitational with their compressed natural gas formula-style car. The morning didn’t start off so well. In fact, it started disastrously.
“Crushed like a piece of pie,” Robbie explained when he described the wreck. “He must have been going [...]
Bikes, Brothers and Burritos
The urban underground movement known as The Burrito Project has taken to Santa Ana. Spearheaded by a group of friends at UC Irvine, approximately a dozen bikers have handed out burritos and water to the homeless every other Sunday since April 2009. A year after its inauguration, the group that is known as the “Burrito [...]
Mission in Malawi
In the summer of 2006, Amanda Hearle, a fourth-year international studies major, found herself stranded in the middle of a field in Malawi with 50 children.
The day had been full of soccer and netball, a popular game amongst the Malawian girls. When the sun set, Amanda, along with her fellow missionaries and 50 children from [...]
A Summer of Nuclear Research ConCERN
Congrats, fellow Anteaters! You have (almost) made it through spring quarter. Maybe for your first time, maybe for your last. For at least one soon-to-be second year, this summer means the opportunity of a lifetime.
This July, physics major Matthew Kelly will join professor Whiteson, a particle physicist at UCI, near Geneva on the Swiss side [...]
Intimate Inquiries
Dear LL&L regulars,
In honor of the end of “Lost” and the countless lessons on life and love it brought, your wonderful LL&L editors Khassaundra and Emmercelle have stepped down to let two seasoned “Lost” disciples spread the show’s teachings to the romantically beguiled. We appreciate your patience while we discern the great truths of “Lost” [...]
Dear Professors: We Were Wrong
As the academic year comes to a close, I’d like to take a moment to apologize to our professors. I’d like to apologize, on behalf of all those students who took the time during class to ridicule you, to send you angry e-mails, to complain about you on Facebook and rate you down on ratemyprofessors.com. [...]
