hi my name is Daniel Chou I'm a
third-year student here at UCLA I'm from
a small suburban area east of here
called Arcadia my major is psycho
biology and I'm on a pre-med track
outside of class I typically like to
listen to music play music dance to
music and most importantly I love to eat
food with my friends so a typical day
for me
I typically wake up one hour before my
first class this quarter I happen to
wake up usually around 9:00 every day on
average but yeah typically if I have
time I'll like grab a to-go breakfast
from our hour to go like dining halls on
our residential area and I'll just bring
it over to class maybe like eating class
yeah so I'll just slowly go through all
my classes if they're all back to back
then perfect I won't have to waste any
time otherwise maybe if there's like a
one-hour gap in between I'm just kind of
like rest on like one of the like grassy
areas around maybe take a look at my
laptop if I'm busy I'll do homework if
I'm not busy I'll probably just you know
enjoy whatever is flying around on
Facebook but yeah so tell me a little
bit about your region all right so my
major is psycho biology it's more of a
mix between like psychology and biology
and mostly under the psychology
department but subjects are basically
biology I'm a little bit about like your
favorite psych class you take yeah so my
favorite psych class is probably one of
the classes I'm in right now it's called
psych 115 it's an upper division about
behavioral neuroscience basically what
we study in that class is basically
anatomy of the brain functions to
certain parts of the brain specific
things like like cerebral like nerves
and then like different like sense
sensory like functions and basically I
would say that's typically my favorite
kind of subject where I get to like
learn about specific parts of the body
and how they work
overall what are the requirements for
the psycho biology major so the
requirements to get into the psychology
major are conveniently the requirements
I need to apply for med school so that's
half of the reason why I chose major
just because it gets away like both
requirements both that one so that would
include like math classes chemistry
classes bio chemistry biology physics so
all those are both prerequisites to
apply in for med school and for getting
into the major so I mean there's a
couple other majors kind of like that as
well but because I took an intro psych
class and I really liked it I just
decided to go with this one okay so
you've been volunteering with a couple
of other like medical organizations what
is that voluntary look like some are
volunteering I've done both like
volunteering in the hospital under the
actual staff there it's it's pretty I
don't get it do that as much hands-on
work because of just certain regulations
but it's really nice to see like the
nurses the doctors got to interact with
the patients it gives me a better idea
what it's like to actually work in the
field and you know of course every once
in a while they'll let me like see a
procedure and that's really cool oh so
so do you think you're really looking to
go into like the patient facing side of
medicine yes research side yes as much
as I like research I would say the
patient like aspects like the like
person-to-person interactions are what
I'm in for the most humans are good
humans are good
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tell me a little bit about social life
at UCLA yeah some pretty pretty bustling
pretty pretty vibrant it's we do have
like a like 30,000 like student
undergraduate like school and then
because we have so many like
extracurriculars available to just
really get to me a lot of different
people really really quickly you know
it's a nice area around UCLA - you know
Westwood so we typically have a lot of
like nice restaurants to visit Santa
Monica Pier is really close to just that
where you have like really good night
out on the town yeah I mean like you
they have like 3rd Street Promenade and
go there like shop for a really long
time they have like street performers
you know there's the beach they have
like arcade arcades around there and
then no of course there's always like
really like exciting things you can do a
little bit further closer to like
downtown LA you know there's always a
lot of things there so yeah you meet
friends really quickly and there's
always like never-ending amount of
activities to
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all right so this is our John Wooden
Center it's our gym it's pretty big I
don't know if you can tell from this
angle but yeah it's huge there's lots of
workout equipment in there lots of
machines lots of like free weights etc
but I would say well I mostly do here is
because I'm part of a dance team they
have a lot of like really like big open
spaces because it's a team you know it's
a lot of like choreography with maybe
like 20 20 10 like 20-ish people so then
we really need big spaces and the gym
provides like the perfect area for that
I'm a little bit about how you got
involved in dance general okay um yeah
so in college or at UCLA specifically I
think dance is a really really big like
extracurricular that like most people
like to get involved in specifically we
have this one really amazing group on
campus called foundations it's meant for
like beginner dancers or people who've
never danced before and then they just
kind of train them get them used to like
performing on stage you haven't I
haven't danced before all this yeah I
only started last year well how do you
do so I first started with the
foundations group they taught us like
hip-hop well it kind of depends on like
who your teacher is but typically
they're usually all hip-hop and then I
decided to join this other dance team on
campus called KBM what we do in that
group is we make like we dance to like
Kurt like Korean pop songs and we're
gonna make like we make like covers kind
of like imitating the like actual videos
with their like specific choreography
and yeah we just uploaded onto YouTube
in
kinda share our like passion for kpop so
the videos of you doing the kpop dancing
are on you there on YouTube yeah we can
week to it
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what would you say was the most
surprising thing about UCLA I would say
the most pricing thing about UCLA is its
abundance of extracurriculars I actually
didn't join any extracurriculars my
first year I focused on academics and I
made friends with the people on my dorm
but my second year as soon as I got
involved in like one club you know I
started getting like involved in like
many clubs and then you kind of get to
know a little bit of like everyone you
kind of like broaden your range a law
you meet a lot of people you do a lot of
like like activities whether it's like
social activities or like volunteering
activities and yeah I just really didn't
expect it when I came to UCLA because I
guess I just mostly thought about the
academic side of each College but when I
found out about the extra crooler
extracurriculars it's like completely
changed like my experience at UCLA
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