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I get the same reaction every time: "Wait, there's a UC in Merced?" Yeah, there is. It opened in 2005. And being the newest UC is actually the best thing about it. Everything is new. Like, literally new buildings, new dorms, new labs. My science building smells like fresh paint and has...

I know I should have started the book weeks ago. But here we are. It's Moby Dick, it's 600 pages, my essay on "the symbolism of the white whale" is due Monday, and I'm only on like, chapter 15. I'm a humanities major, I have no excuse, I just... didn't. I get the gist. I've read summaries, I've...

OMG yes, this is my favorite part of writing! The hook is everything! 📣 It's like the trailer for a movie—if the trailer sucks, no one's watching the film. My absolute, number-one, go-to secret weapon is finding a jaw-dropping fact or a mind-boggling statistic. It instantly makes your reader...

My name is Dennis, and I have a problem. I am afflicted with what my friends call "academic butterfly syndrome." One minute I'm down a rabbit hole about the mating habits of seahorses, and the next I'm watching a documentary about the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge, and then I'm reading...