Mediocre chain-restaurant sandwich lovers at UC Irvine rejoiced last month when Subway opened inside BC’s Cavern on the Green. UCI Dining, which operates...
I weighed a measly three pounds the day I was born. I looked like a wrinkled potato, shivering in a tiny incubator (I have several photos as evidence of this phenomenon). The nurses must have taken good care of me because, in 10 days, my weight had increased to a whopping four pounds.
On Feb. 26, the Taiwanese American Organization (TAO) hosted the second annual Lantern Festival and Night Market in celebration of Lunar New Year, the year of the rabbit. TAO is an organization that educates students about Taiwanese culture through social and cultural activities such as this event.
Have you ever thrown a party and had left over bottle caps, perhaps after New Years? Maybe you have gone for a jog around the park and seen some goose feathers on the concrete. One wouldn’t usually pay attention to these inanimate and seemingly useless objects — but one man’s trash is another man’s treasure. Many people around the world use these findings to create jewelry or to accessorize clothing and sell it on a website known as Etsy.com.
I was in the sixth grade and my teacher had just decided that she wanted to read a book to our class. Her choice, “The Phantom Tollbooth” by Norton Juster, ended up changing my life, the way I looked at books and how words could be used.