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Nikki Jee | Staff Photographer
As I looked through some old boxes in my garage, I found a letter from my for mer best friend (let’s call her Minnie). The dog-eared letter had survived years of neglect in a cardboard box filled with cobwebs and dust.
Despite the spelling errors and the misuse of “accepted,” the twelve-year-old [...]

Nick Vu | Staff Photographer
Homemade lunches have fallen by the wayside with the surge of fast food restaurants. If you’re on campus during the summer, you’re probably tempted to drop into the food court for a quick lunch.
But if you want to eat cheap, tasty and healthy food, the easiest way is to prepare the [...]

Twenty-four smooth, black, acid-scented grains of smokeless powder lie compacted in a brass shell. The shell is 1.70 inches long with a 55-grain hollow-point cork above and an explosive primer charge below.
The charge handle pulls back the bolt, sliding into a well-oiled buffer tube as it cocks the hammer back before slamming forward, carrying the [...]

Nick Vu | Staff Photographer
We may prefer e-mails to phone calls and online articles to paper books in libraries, but nothing can replace a face-to-face conversation.
Technology has done its job and connected us to each other worldwide, for better or for worse.  People are able to keep in touch with friends through social networking sites. [...]

Courtesy of Jennifer Polito
I am a Southern Californian, born and raised, but before college I hardly ever had the chance to do much exploring. As I’ve made more friends from all over the place and spent less and less of my winter and summer breaks at home, my homeland has expanded into a pretty awesome [...]

We all do it – finals week of spring quarter approaches and we begin to make plans to visit our out-of-town Anteater friends over the summer.
These aren’t substantial plans though, but merely fantastical notions that we toss around to get us through our last exams and ten-page papers.
Before we know it, September is nearing and [...]

During the endless days of STAR testing, we all got used to our No. 2 pencils, reading comprehension stories about inane things, little paper rulers for the math sections and the countless bubbles dedicated to our personal information: name, parents’ education, social security number, birthday, economic standing. When it came to identifying my ethnicity, I [...]

Four-year-old Rashmi proudly holds her carved Halloween pumpkin, not knowing that her name would be the cause of confusion and laughs.
Rashmi. Rash-me. My name is often mistaken for some sort of dermatological problem or mocked for the quite obvious joke, “I’ve got a rash-on-me!”
I have always been the first to make fun of my name [...]

“Grill, baby, grill!” This is the seasonal mentality when it comes to summer cuisine.
There are plenty of simple, healthy meals and snacks that are inexpensive and delicious. The best way to optimize summer meals is to use a variety of seasonal ingredients and create, rather than just simply cook, dishes that complement the warmer weather.
When [...]

Milena and her fiance Aaron, engaged in February, passionately look into each other's eyes during a special evening four years ago at Dana Point.
Most 21-year-old girls in Southern California are planning a trip to Vegas with their girlfriends, counting down to graduation day or worrying about what happens after graduation. Move back in with [...]