failure

There’s an intricate delicacy in shared looks across the room and bitten-back smiles behind brushed fingertips; another language in scribbled notes and tight, quick hugs. I want slow egg-cooking mornings and a midday coffee.

If things go sideways, keep in mind that failure is normal. Let the pain come in and eventually it will go away.

Failure is the sore thumb that sticks out. When I come across an interesting opportunity, I'm often the biggest obstacle standing in my way.

Failing the HSK made me realize that failure is not the dark pit I imagined it to be — instead, it can be an opportunity of reflection and redirection.

Researchers from the UC Berkeley Rejections Institute, or BRI, announced Thursday that they have developed an advanced prototype rejection letter.

Social prescriptions limit the acceptable forms of love, and among the most difficult norms to defy is monogamy. If your instincts carry you outside social convention — as mine have — you must work all the more diligently for love to succeed.

Although there are awesome things about going to school with some of the brightest minds in the world, people who are arrogant can still get on our nerves.

Elliot Rodger killed six people and injured 13 others on May 23, in Isla Vista, California, a community where many UC Santa Barbara students live. All six of those killed that day were students at the university. This tragedy has been reported and dissected by every major news outlet in the country, including The Daily Californian. But UCSB’s ASUC-sponsored paper, the Bottom Line, chose to refrain from immediate devoted coverage of the incident outside of their Twitter feed. In fraught and dangerous circumstances, the Bottom Line made the wrong decision and abandoned its responsibility to its campus and community.