Humor

Good luck canceling your gym membership   By ANGIE VELARDE — avelarde@ucdavis.edu   New Year’s resolutions — most of us make them; nobody you know has actually kept one. Here are seven resolutions I know you’ve given up on already:   Going to the gym Let’s be honest: if this was not already part of […]

The difference between a gift and bribery is how good you are at winking   By ANNABEL MARSHALL — almarshall@ucdavis.edu    Strangers: Ah! Strangers, the perfect blank slate. A canvas on which to draw a romanticized version of your personality. Here are some lies to tell strangers to make you more interesting.  I have a […]

No cups, the pledges just hold the beer in their cupped hands   By ANNABEL MARSHALL — almarshall@ucdavis.edu   Kappa Phi Sigma Beta Gamma Phi is UC Davis’s fraternity, but it’s much more than a social club. The frat, conveniently abbreviated as “Cap-fi-sig-bee-gam-fi” to those in the know, has prepared members for impressive roles outside […]

Meet Jeff, Twitter’s newest (and only) employee   By ANGIE VELARDE — avelarde@ucdavis.edu   After a series of unprecedented layoffs, resignations and terminations, Elon Musk’s latest purchase is now in the hands of one man: Jeff — a recent college graduate, Dungeon Master, video game enthusiast and now Twitter’s most important employee. According to Jeff, […]

But she can’t walk forwards, which is a bit sad, actually   By ELLIE SCHULTZ —  eeschultz@ucdavis.edu   Last week, UC Davis alumni Johannes and Clarissa Tompkins brought their 13-month-old daughter, Agatha, into Dr. Jennifer Cronenberg’s developmental genetics lab. Agatha, named in homage to her parents’ alma mater, only walks backward. “She just got up […]

“I just didn’t see it coming” By ANGIE VELARDE — avelarde@ucdavis.edu   Rejecting the student vote to replace the official mascot of UC Davis has left a bad taste in the mouths of many. But the controversial vote has had the biggest impact on one individual: a mustang named Gunrock. Ahead of the release of […]

Transcribed from an audio file uploaded to the OChem subreddit By ANNABEL MARSHALL — almarshall@ucdavis.edu    Host: Hi, welcome back to the podcast. I’m your host, in my final year here at Davis as a third-year theater major! I’m here with my co-host, Stu. Stu, why don’t you introduce yourself? Stu: Hi, I’m Stu. Host: […]

An inspiring advice column for students at UC Davis! By ANNABEL MARSHALL — almarshall@ucdavis.edu  Disclaimer: This article has been edited for content and clarity by our editor Owen Ruderman in order to ensure it follows the University of California, Davis’s Principles of Community.   Q: I’m really worried about my first quarter of organic chemistry. […]

Drawn by: Priscila Jiménez Corrales –– pjimenez@ucdavis.edu

Oh my God, not this again BY ANNABEL MARSHALL — almarshall@ucdavis.edu  BTS sucks. (BTS stands for Back To School, but by the time the author finished writing the previous sentence they were sniped by a K-pop stan through the window of their apartment. The author has been replaced and their body has been thrown into […]

By PRISCILA JIMÉNEZ CORRALES — pjimenez@ucdavis.edu Drawn by: Priscila Jiménez Corrales –– pjimenez@ucdavis.edu  Disclaimer: (This cartoon is humor and/or satire, and its content is purely fictional. The story and names of “sources” are fictionalized.)

By PRISCILA JIMÉNEZ CORRALES –– pjimenez@ucdavis.edu Drawn by: Priscila Jiménez Corrales –– pjimenez@ucdavis.edu   Disclaimer: (This cartoon is humor and/or satire, and its content is purely fictional. The story and names of “sources” are fictionalized.)