The “day from hell” has become a trend on various social media platforms, namely TikTok, where creators describe an absurd day of misfortune. This chain reaction of small (or big) problems that make a day feel cursed is told in a humorous manner, acting as a coping mechanism.
At UCLA, every student has experienced misfortune in different ways, whether that be a four-hour midterm with a 40% average, endless dining hall lines or a cursed enrollment window. So here is the ultimate Bruin day from hell, stitched together from the shared misery of campus misfortunes.
You’re a freshman living in a classic triple dorm room in Rieber Hall with no air conditioning. You wake up sweating at 7 a.m., realize you have an 8 a.m. class in the Luskin School of Public Affairs building and rush to get ready. You sprint to Bruin Plate, where you inhale fruit because you only have ten minutes before your 30-minute trek across campus, and, with an 11R meal plan, you won’t eat again for hours.
On Bruin Walk, you dodge a protest that has already gathered hundreds of people at the ripe time of 7:30 a.m., then nearly get clipped by an athlete on an e-scooter. All of a sudden, it starts to torrentially downpour. Of course, you don’t have your umbrella with you. You arrive at class soaked, late and unprepared for the one reading the professor asks about.
After your class, you slip and fall on the Hill on your way back to your dorm, someone films it, and by the time you discover your Bruin Card is missing, the video is already making its rounds online. After an hour waiting in the rain to get a replacement key, you return to your shoebox of a dorm to find the clip at 100,000 likes. You nap out of embarrassment and wake up hours later to the realization that you’ve missed your club meeting. You are now assigned makeup hours as a result.
Completing your laundry seems like a chance to redeem the day, that is, until you find your wet clothes tossed on the dirty laundry room floor after the wash cycle ended, with various articles of clothing stolen. You throw what’s left into a dryer.
At 5 p.m., you burn your final meal swipe at a food truck with a line wrapped all the way around Sproul Turnaround. By the time you sit down to eat, you’re checking GEs and watching every class in your plan fill except for one. When your 10 p.m. enrollment time finally rolls around, your computer freezes. Five agonizing minutes later, the page reloads. One seat remains. You get it. Barely. The longest and most absurd day of your life.
The perfect UCLA day from hell.
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