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A first-year computer science major who loves helping others, Nithin Jilla is also the president of UC Irvine’s Kenya Dream chapter. He’s on a mission to help the students of Kenya succeed in school.

An integral part of the college experience is living on your own. Moving out after nearly a decade under your parents’ convenient roof is a change that takes at least a little adjusting to, even with the many distractions.

Cooking your own food is something every adult should be able to do. Unluckily, we’re not going to be college students forever, and there are no commons in an office building. So, unless you’re looking forward to eating Del Taco forever, you should start learning how to cook now.

One in two men and one in three women will be diagnosed with cancer during their life time. The 2011 Relay for Life at UC Irvine is here to do something about it. With 1,283 participants and 99 teams, the event has raised more than $21,570 this year alone. Each team chooses a cancer to adopt, creates pamphlets and spreads the word.

Phone interviews are awkward. I’m not even going to try to start this column with an interesting lede because it’s just a fact: I dislike phone interviews.

For the regular Irvine kid, you wake up one morning and just know. As you open the window, a breeze of warm air wafts gently into your room and it suddenly clicks – it’s springtime!

UC Irvine’s history department hosted “Religion and Nationalism in Twentieth-Century Asia,” a dialogue between Professor Vinayak Chaturvedi and St. Joseph University’s James Carter.

A look at this past week through photos.

The color blue was plastered everywhere in the Student Center. Blue shirts. Blue ribbons. Blue markers.

A pristine, white doghouse sits in Sean Alexander McWillie’s backyard. Outside, it resembles some of the original 1965 Brutalist-style architecture found on campus, like the kind seen at Social Science Tower. The insulation is made from re-purposed Styrofoam and it is completely sustainable. Even the roof, which slopes downward so the water can drain from the back, has a small garden growing from it. Inside, it is spacious and beautiful, perfect for Jolly.

If I had it in me as a first grader to hate Sun Yi-Qiang, I would have. But I was much too feeble, much too timid and much too innocent. So I feared him instead.

Our photographers take you around town with some images from the past week.