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• Please share one of your personal experiences on the Ring Mall. Contribute to UCI’s historical records and to our understanding of ourselves and each other now. Add your story, from your point of view, to the Main Street UCI archive.
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• Our goals are: (a) to gather contributions from the varied and diverse points of view of UCI people and organizations, and (b) to preserve them as a record of campus life now for ourselves and for anyone in the future who wants to know what’s special and what’s ordinary about life at UCI.
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The complete Main Street UCI Blog
PLEASE NOTE The Blog is closed to new content. You CANNOT add new text or comments. To read contributions made before the blog was closed in 2012: Click on the “Contributors” drop down menu located on the right side of this … Continue reading
Finding your Space
As a first-generation Latina, I had to balance leaving home and carving out my own home once I got to UCI. This was eased with the family I found among my new roommates and hallmates from Jardin, forming long lasting … Continue reading
Where do I start?
I hardly knew about UCI until I was accepted as an undergraduate. The first time I went to UCI was Celebrate UCI/Wayzgoose 2007 with my mom. We rode the shuttle around Ring Road, walked throughout Aldrich park, and attended a … Continue reading
From Tokyo to Irvine: A Story of One Anteater
I stepped foot onto UCI in September 2007. I was lost. I was born in Torrance, but I had spent my entire life in Japan. That was because when I was born, my parents decided to raise me in Japan … Continue reading
A Sylvan Reminiscence
Whenever I think of UC Irvine, the first thing that pops in my mind is the trees. It may seem like a mundane or unimportant aspect of our campus, but whenever I think of UCI I think of how we … Continue reading
Remember that One Time in SAEP when…
Since I heard about Main Street UCI in 2010, I have been thinking about what to write for the Archives. I keep coming back to different variations of the same thing and that is where it all began. Four months … Continue reading
Mujer On Campus
I was raised in northeast Los Angeles, in the vibrant working class Latin@ town El Sereno. I am a first-generation college student who stepped onto the UCI campus with great ambitions. Coming to UC Irvine was a big change in … Continue reading
“…But ALL the students are Asian!” My experience at UCI…so far (2 more years to go)
Warning: the following content is brutally honest and blunt. I do not mean to offend anyone nor do I have any ill intentions. I just want to tell my story in full honestly. No sugar coating, no euphemism, and no … Continue reading
A Whole lot of Firsts: A first generation college student experience at UCI
I’ve always had big dreams and when I transferred from my community college to UCI in 2009, I felt like I was halfway there. I knew what I wanted, knowing was never the problem. Obtaining it, however, was a completely … Continue reading
My life at UCI
I am about to graduate from UCI, to be exact, in September 2012. My high school graduation was long long ago. I did not walk on graduation Sunday, as I am still a little shy sitting among my much younger … Continue reading