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For first-year English graduate student Ashley Matson, completing all her assigned reading was not something she did on a regular basis throughout her college career. As a result of having too many readings for a particular night, Matson would choose a class she liked the best or that was the most difficult and only did the reading for that class.

Ian Bogost Lecture; Teach-in for the National Day of Solidarity with the Irvine 11; Student Organization Showcase; Science Café: Medicines from Nature: Drugs that Changed the World.

In the recent months, the world has seen the power of the people, specifically youth, through the numerous uprisings that have taken place in various Middle Eastern countries. With UC Davis anthropology and women and gender studies professor Suad Joseph's help, these young people will be given the tools necessary to begin social change.

Distinguished Women in Science Research Lecture; Undergraduate Philosophy Club; Ian Bogost Lecture; Teach-in for the National Day of Solidarity with the Irvine 11.

With a few simple Facebook clicks, UC Davis alumnus Gary Bladen may win Think Big Sacramento's Citizen Architect Design Competition.

This fall, the seven strangers picked to live in a house to film "The Real World: San Diego" will include one of UC Davis' recent transfer students.

The House "Open House"; Biomedical Engineering Distinguished Speaker Series; Botany and Environmental Horticulture Club; Google Informational Meeting.

Spanish, chemistry discussion, introductory English, French and Native American Studies. All of the classes have something in common: the teachers may actually be graduate students.

Poetry in the Arboretum; California State Assembly Chief Clerk's Internship Meeting; Lambda Delta Lambda Farmer's Market Meet-up; Russian Cultural Association Meeting; We're Off to See the Brothers; The Spokes Auditions; Birdstrike Theatre Informational Meeting.

Dear Gabby.

Henry "Hoby" Wedler is just like any Ph.D. student studying chemistry at UC Davis. He spends countless hours conducting experiments and reads endless amounts of complex material. Yet he will never see a chemical reaction and he learns chemistry by using audiobooks.

Lambda Delta Lambda Dollar Scoop Night; Poetry in the Arboretum; California State Assembly Chief Clerk's Internship Meeting; Lambda Delta Lambda Farmer's Market Meet-up.

One of the biggest fears of incoming freshmen is always, "Will I get along with my roommate or will I be stuck with the guy who stays up till 4 a.m., never showers and perpetually leaves food out?"

The House Counseling Services; Undergraduate Research Center Open House; Anthropology Colloquium Series; Undergraduate Philosophy Club; Lambda Delta Lambda Info Night.

Sitting at a long table between a beret-wearing man signing people up for French lessons and members of the Davis High School German Club offering squares of black forest cake, UC Davis senior psychology and Russian double major and member of the campus Russian Cultural Association Katya Rafanova worked to bring Russia a little bit closer to Davis.