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It often starts with peer pressure. All your friends are doing it, they talk about it all the time, they do it in front of you, and eventually they drop hints about you joining them. Maybe you're strong enough to resist, or maybe you're not - and you sign yourself up for an MMORPG.

"UC Irvine is so boring! There is nothing to do! It is dead on the weekends! Everything closes early!" Insert a whiny voice when all those things are said and this probably sounds like most of you. I have news for you. Stop being a Debbie Downer and couch potato and open your eyes. UCI, and Orange County in general, has more to offer than you may know — way more.

In less than three months, Jesse Bernal will officially come into the role of UC student regent. Although Bernal's voice will be the only one with the power to vote amongst thousands of students from 10 campuses, his voice was first heard far from earshot of any of the UC schools.

If you're anything like me, you were probably severely annoyed by the introduction of this new-fangled time-waster called "Twitter."

Interview: The UC president reviews his first academic year in office and discusses future challenges.

Anyone writing about restaurants for this paper would be remiss if they failed to recognize the fact that UC Irvine is situated within poking distance of gastronomical greatness.

bureaucracy: The mission to make academic journals free to the public is fraught with opposition.

"This is my generation. This is my sex appeal," a throaty voice sings while images of a model in a snug tan sweater and a tiny skirt fastened from top to bottom with silver buttons flash across my laptop's screen. It's clear within the first few minutes of this video that this isn't promoting your usual clothing brand. This is BCBGeneration, a brand-new line that's the hipper, younger sister to Max Azria's well-known BCBGMAXAZRIA label. BCBG, an acronym for the French slang saying, "bon chic, bon genre," ("good style, good attitude" in English), was founded in 1989 by Max Azria and is currently based in Vernon, CA.

victory: Nine students from UCI Mock Trial competed in the final rounds of the national tournament.

In the words of one of this country's founding fathers, Benjamin Franklin, "You may delay, but time will not." This truism indicates that while life continues to move forward, with humanity making significant progress in various fields with each passing day, one issue perpetually looms over our heads. Halting advancement and stifling productivity is none other than procrastination.

research: Professor will give students cell phones to monitor exposure to drugs and alcohol over five years.

From epic breakups to unbelievably bad campus food, doesn't it sometimes seem like we, as college students, are living in a movie?