All Entries in the "Features" Category
The Dish List: Bowls
When first I walked into Bowls, a new healthy fast food joint on Pacific Coast Hwy and Superior Avenue in Newport Beach, I was immediately asked if I would like to try their steak and handed a hearty chunk of meat on a toothpick. After just one bite, I knew I had come to a [...]
Feelings After the Fact
I’ve never felt so many emotions rushing through my mind and feelings rippling through my body as I did the night my father passed away. Though his battle with leukemia had been a long one and I’d seen the life fading out of him gradually over the years, there was no way that I, an [...]
Astgik, the Improv-Loving Alumna
“I hate Orange County,” “Irvine is the worst,” “there is seriously nothing to do here” are just a few phrases that I’ve overheard during my past three years here at UC Irvine. I’ll be honest, I’ve thrown around some of them too. But for former LA County native and 2011 UCI alumna Astgik Khatchatryan, Orange [...]
Thank You, UC Irvine
As Thanksgiving comes and goes, a lot of people tend to forget the meaning behind the holiday, focusing instead on the (wonderful) break from school. Although this is not said often, there are a lot of things that we have to be thankful for, especially as students at UC Irvine. Let’s start with the campus. [...]
The Column of Babel: Alireza from Iran
Unlike many of the other international students on campus, Alireza Farahmand immigrated to the US from Iran with his family before beginning his studies at UCI. Farahmand is 25 years old and is a Ph.D candidate in civil engineering. He has been studying in the United States for two years and plans to continue for [...]
Gaining Perspective at TEDxUCIrvine
We’ve all traveled somewhere at some point in our lives. For some, that might mean a flight to Paris or a weekend in the Caribbean. For others, it could be as simple as a car ride downtown or a drive to the beach. But as we are getting our tan on, or buying our souvenirs, [...]
“Gangnam Style”: Not the Only One
Yellow caution tape covered the entrance to BCD Tofu House on a Friday evening, while a wall of people surrounded the area as bystanders stuck their cellphones out ready to take a snapshot. It was no ordinary hustle and bustle of the weekend for the culinary hotspot. The tofu house attracted a different type of [...]
Tuning in to College Radio
Paul McEldowney casually settles into his chair and turns to his laptop. He opens up his music files and selects a few songs, adding them to his playlist. He then turns to the soundboard and adjusts a few settings. A song can be heard playing in the background. Once the sound of the song fades, [...]
Q&A With Professor Famiglietti
As the head of the Hydrology and Climate Research Group at UC Irvine, James Famiglietti is an expert in the global water cycle change and freshwater availability according to measurements of groundwater depletion. He is the director of the UC Center for Hydrologic Modeling at UC Irvine and the former director of the UC Irvine [...]
The Truest Education: One That’s Abroad
“I didn’t know I had a culture until I lived in a different one.” A member of the staff at my International Education orientation spoke these words shortly after I had gotten off a plane in late August, as she shared her own study abroad experiences and welcomed us to ours. Though it was one [...]
