Backdrop: UC Berkeley’s Ariel Parra and California

Everyone’s drawn to Los Angeles by the seduction of Hollywood glamour, but for students, the city is a place for discovery.

Going to UCLA means access to Southern California locations like Venice Beach or the Los Angeles National Forest, but there’s also a level of diversity that isn’t available anywhere else in the country: You can eat dim sum in Chinatown for lunch and street tacos for dinner downtown.

Los Angeles is the place to be.