Dear Asian Youth is a nonprofit literary magazine that works to uplift APIDA youth across the nation. This week, Pacific Ties interviewed second-year labor studies major Maisha Kalam, one of the Chapter Leads of Dear Asian Youth at UCLA, to gain a different perspective on the organization. 1:…
My screen time has been through the roof lately. I know exactly what is to blame: TikTok. An app I once swore to never get is now the main source of my social media addiction. I try to justify my attachment to it by arguing that I am…
Blue light radiates from my phone to my face, and I bask in the glow as it breaks the darkness surrounding me. Over time, I’ve sort of developed this habit: every night, no matter the hour, I enter the endless cycle that is scrolling through Instagram. I know,…
UCLA students are required to take a year of a foreign language in order to graduate. Luckily, students are given many options to choose from, ranging from commonly taught foreign languages such as Spanish to other languages such as Swahili. I chose to take Chinese to fulfill my…
I flip through the book, page after page. The coarse, off-white paper lightly scratches the pads of my fingertips. The earthy smell of the ink wafts up to my nose. As my eyes scan the words, I imagine the scene folding out in front of me. There’s something…