| 101 Reasons to Attend UCLA
1. UCLA offers a nearly unbeatable balance between athletics and academics.
2. Santa Monica is 15 minutes away.
3. Bruins eat Trojans (okay, one exception to the negativity. I call modtatorship on this!)
4. Campouts in front of Pauley Pavillion
5. Being able to tell your kids that you ACTUALLY had to walk uphill to and from school when you were at UCLA
6. PUZZLES CURLY FRIES IN BOWL OF CHILI WITH A SIDE OF CURLY FRIES WITH CHEESE ON TOP... and a lowfat smoothie.
7. Royce Hall
8. Going with friends to see a movie premier in Westwood and saying, "Dude, Keanu Reeves looks like a wuss!"
9. Finally becoming old enough to go to Maloney's
10. SQUIRRELS!!!!!! OMGCUTE!
11. Diddy Riese!
12. Sneaking into the tunnels under the campus...and not getting caught.
13. Musuems in LA.
14. Concert scene in LA.
15. Campus food is pretty solid.
16. Weather.
17. Daily Bruin- solid paper.
18. In-N-Out Burger
19. One of the top Hospitals on campus!
20. BRUINWALK
21. Political people stop by on a semi-regular basis.
22. Offers Chinese for beginners and fluent speakers.
23. Tommy's Original World Famous Hamburgers are just a short jaunt away.
24. All-Hill Halloween
25. When you already are where everyone else wants to be, what's not to like?
26. You might see <fill in your favorite celebrity> at the grocery store.
27. Sometimes they hire college kids as extras for movies!
28. In-n-Out Burger (so important it has to be listed twice)
29. Pinkberry
30. Wooden Center
31. 8-clap
32. Naps outside Jann's steps
33. Jobs. Jobs jobs jobs jobs jobs.
34. Free sneak movies
35. Cool speakers on campus/in class
36. Kevin Smith apparently teaches a class here. Seriously.
37. Spring Sing? (Ok, I haven't gone. Yet. But it sounds really fun. )
38. Raspberry/banana ice cream
39. Kettle corn outside Ackerman
40 KOSHER FOOD at Bruin Cafe!
41. All my really cool friends go to UCLA
42. It costs a quarter to go on the local buses.
43. Bunche Hall
44. The Physics and Astronomy Building
45. Girls are hot
46. Torta Ahogada @ Rendezvous
47. $2 movies
48. The GE Clusters system
49. Late night runs to Crossroads
50. Bruin Bear outside Ackerman
51. The people here.
52. The Unicycle Man!
53. The ninja/student who does flips outside the parking lot near the IM fields and sometimes near Ackerman
54. Kerchoff jazz nights and free campus concerts in general
55. SEAS Cafe...for those of you who don't know, you might never know
56. 99 NCAA titles
57. Tuition for In-State Students
58. Facebook Friends Forever
59. It's been in countless films
60. Inverted Fountain
61. Students in Bearwear (sweaters) in all weather conditions
62. Romanesque architecture
63. UCLA's sculpture garden
64. You're surrounded by lots of very smart people. You can't help but study to keep up - and that's cool!
65. $2 boba milk tea drinks outside Ackerman (sold by the Chinese Culture Night People!)
66. The chance to go to UCLA Orientation and see Cabaret!
67. The black man on Bruin Walk...trying to get you to donate while shaking your hand for over 5 seconds.
68. Fowler Out Loud! Free concerts that are REALLY great with free refreshments!
69. The ability to watch the "Ivy League" series on AZN TV...and laugh at the stress we all once had to go through. [dunno if this is UCLA-specific...Ari?]
70. Chinese/Japanese/Korean/Taiwanese/Vietnamese Culture Night
71. Did someone say Westwood yet?
72. Quarter System
73. The cool celebrities who take Charles Young Drive when Sunset Blvd gets jammed
74. RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES!!!!!! (SRP, URFP, etcetc.)
75. The awesome shower heads that we have. Having it set on a pulsating massage setting is like having a little piece of nirvana...in your shower.
76. The hourly bells...even if there really isn't a hunchback man waiting to ring them every hour.
77. I found out one of my professors loves youtube. lol
78. My friend said that her professor who is in her 50's looks hotter then her. The reasons she gave are her professor has nicer racks and abs than her ROFLMAO
79. The people who commute 2 hrs daily to serve you lattes, swipe your bruincard, clean your bathrooms, etc. Give them some notice instead of telling them to "hurry the f up"
80. Reduced fees to attend performances at Royce
81. The X-Cape arcade.
82. Calpirg
83. 22 hours of silence during finals
84. Finals on a Saturday or Sunday
85. Hibernating Bruin Bear outside Ackerman
86. Beating USC
87. The Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf (Gayley & Weyburn, Westwood & Weyburn).
88. Amazingly enough there's great food at the hospital cafeteria. Best hours to go are between 6-7:30 PM.
89. Seminars (If you know which ones to go to, there' really good catered food).
90. Libraries that hardly anyone uses. These are great especially during midterms and finals.
91. The journals UCLA subcribes to...you can find just about any article or book.
92. Graduate courses open to undergrads.
93. The shuttle system.
94. Wooden Center.
95. Mildred Mathias Botanical Gardens.
96. The helipad on top of the CHS hospital.
98. View from the Factor Building (that's Catalina Island in the background).
99. Movie previews at Melnitz.
100. Because going anywhere else wouldn't be as fulfilling.
101. Because it's UCLA. Isn't that a good enough reason. | 
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