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Unless you have a complete set of recordings about how much you like Harvard and how it is different from UCLA in every single way, and a tape player whose batteries won’t run out, don’t drop the H-bomb. I made that mistake, and it cost me dearly—a lot of potential friends, nice people who are reluctant to see anything deeper in me than the fact that by some lucky stroke of admissions, I got into Harvard. What they don’t realize is that in interrogating me about...
...fashioned ice-cream dish, topped with a minuscule amount of whipped cream and three miniature M&Ms. And if you forget to go to lunch, you can always hit the Krispy Kreme Doughnuts or Panda Express in the Student Union. Awe-inspiring is the only word for UCLA dining services—you will never go hungry...
...UCLA is about hard work, but not for the sake of knowledge. It’s about working harder than everyone else, because at UCLA, curves don’t help—they kill. Remember that 94 percent you got on a math test last year? That could easily be a C at UCLA. Don’t share notes, don’t study together and don’t even think about helping your friend with that problem set. Enthusiasm runs high, but be prepared to keep it to yourself...
...unfit first-year at UCLA, for you will soon become a hermit, locked in your tiny double in Rieber Hall for fear that someone will point and laugh. Fitness is simply life for Bruins. The John Wooden Athletic Center, located in the middle of campus, is larger than all of Adams House. Everyone here is so hard-core that you’d feel silly simply walking on a treadmill—at Wooden, they’re more like sprinting machines. Feeling particularly adventurous? Don’t miss the larger-than-life simulated mountain in the middle...
...UCLA a bad place? Definitely not. Is it fair for me to tell people at the breakfast table that it has essentially the same atmosphere as Harvard? Absolutely not. The schools are divergent in just about every way, or so it seems. Still, it’s my responsibility to use this summer as a time to reflect, to take the challenges I’ve faced at UCLA this summer and apply that same energy to a reexamination of what works and what doesn’t at Harvard. Otherwise, those 76 steps up to Rieber Hall every...