☐ Meet with a departmental advisor
☐ Attend Orientation Part 2
☐ Meet with your College/School
advisor
☐ Participate in a Common Experience
event
☐ Attend a research consultation in
Powell Library
☐ Study at Late Night Powell
☐ Attend a My Last Lecture
☐ Attend Major Blast
☐ Take a Fiat Lux course
☐ Complete a General Education
Cluster
☐ Participate in a Student Research
Project
☐ Attend a professor’s office hours/
meet with a professor
☐ Plan a group study session/utilize a
Powell or Young Research Library
(YRL) Study Room
☐ Participate in the Freshman/Transfer
Summer Program (FSP/TSP)
☐ Take a course in Summer Sessions
☐ Participate in a Study Abroad
program
☐ Attend a movie world premiere in
Westwood
☐ Visit the Fowler Museum, Hammer
Museum, or Getty Center
☐ Attend a Campus Events
Commission Free Sneak, Movie,
Concert or Speaker Series
☐ Attend a show at Freud Playhouse
☐ Attend an event sponsored by the
Center for the Art of Performance
☐ Participate in or attend a student
cultural night
☐ Visit Diddy Riese
☐ Participate in Dinners for 12
Strangers
☐ Swipe a friend into a dining hall for
a meal together
☐ Participate in or attend a student
exhibit
☐ Visit the UCLA or Westwood Village
Farmers Market
☐ Attend a floor/house program in
the Residence Halls
☐ Attend the UCLA Pow Wow
☐ Visit the UCLA Clothesline Project
☐ Attend a TEDxUCLA event
Get involved in any of the following
student groups/campus departments:
☐ AAP (Peer Counselor or Volunteer)
☐ BruinWoods (Camp Counselor)
☐ Bruin Leaders Project
☐ Emergency Medical Technician
(EMT) or Community Service Office
(CSO)
☐ Fraternity & Sorority Life (chapter
leadership, IFC/Panhellenic, etc.)
☐ Center for Accessible Education
(Note Taker, Volunteer, etc.)
☐ New Student & Transition Programs
(New Student Advisor)
☐ Pediatric AIDS Coalition
☐ Residential Life (Resident Assistant,
Hill Government Representative,
Move-in Assistant, etc.)
☐ Resilience Peer Network
☐ Student Alumni Association
☐ Student Media (Daily Bruin, Bruin Life,
magazines, UCLA Radio)
☐ Undergraduate Admission (Bruin
Ambasssdors, Campus Tours, Cub
Tours)
☐ Undergraduate Student Association
Council (USAC)
☐ UniCamp (Camp Counselor)
☐ Volunteer Center (Task Manager,
Site Manager, Project Manager)
UCLA True Bruin Traditions Keeper
Listed below are the True Bruin Traditions. Use this sheet to keep track of every tradition that you have completed, but don’t forget to keep proof of your completion of that tradition (i.e.
pictures, videos, ticket stubs, etc.). Students who entered UCLA as a first-year are required to complete 75 traditions in order to become a True Bruin Traditions Keeper. Good luck!
Academics Art/Culture/Food
☐ Attend a UCLA Football game
☐ Attend a UCLA Basketball game
☐ Attend a USC rivalry game
☐ Visit the UCLA Athletics Hall of
Fame at the JD Morgan Center
☐ Take a picture with the Victory Bell
☐ Attend a Women’s sporting event
☐ Tailgate at the Rose Bowl
☐ Attend a Fall sporting event
(other than Football and Men’s
Basketball)
☐ Attend a Winter sporting event
(other than Men’s Basketball)
☐ Attend a Spring sporting event
☐ Attend an away game for any
UCLA sport
☐ Attend a playoff or championship
game for any sport
☐ Join the Den
Athletics
☐ Take a stroll through the Sculpture
Garden
☐ Find the turtles in the Botanical
Garden
☐ Watch a show at the UCLA
Planetarium
☐ Rub the Bruin Bear’s paw for luck
☐ Participate in a Department of
Psychology study
☐ Visit the dinosaur fossils in the
Geology Building
☐ Take a picture with the John
Wooden statue
☐ Take a selfie in front of Royce Hall
☐ Take a selfie in front of your favorite
campus location
Campus Highlights Campus Leadership
newstudents.ucla.edu
You can download the free True Bruin Traditions Keeper app from the Apple App Store to help keep track of your progress.
(Currently, the app is only available for Apple products.)
☐ Join UCLA ONE
☐ Visit the Career Center
☐ Join the UCLA Alumni LinkedIn
group
☐ Participate in the UCLA Alumni
Mentor Program
☐ Attend a career building workshop
☐ Have your resume critiqued through
a Career Center workshop
☐ Attend a career networking night
☐ Attend a campus job fair
☐ Complete an internship
☐ Participate in the Bruin
Development Academy
☐ Participate in the Sharpe Fellows
Program
☐ Participate in the Social Enterprise
Academy
☐ Become “Bruintized”
☐ Attend the “Welcome to Bruin Life”
event
☐ Attend the “CHAMPED UP: UCLA Ath-
letics Welcome” event
☐ Attend/perform in Spring Sing
☐ Attend the Beat ’SC Bonfire and Rally
☐ Attend Bruin Bash
☐ Participate in 8-Clap Heard Around
the World
☐ Take a picture with Joe or Josie Bruin
☐ Participate in “Fan Friday”
☐ Donate to UCLA
☐ Obtain a UCLA license plate frame
☐ Join the UCLA Marching Band,
Color Guard, or Spirit Squad
☐ Participate in the Transfer T-Shirt
Exchange
☐ Participate in “Carpe Noctem” at
New Student Orientation
☐ Attend a “UCLA Geek Week” event
☐ Submit a design for the “UCLA
T-Shirt Design Contest”
☐ Participate in Volunteer Day
☐ Participate/volunteer in Bruin Day
☐ Participate in Dance Marathon
☐ Sign up for a One Bus, One Cause
opportunity
☐ Donate canned food during
“I Heart UCLA Week”
☐ Donate food and supplies to the
UCLA Food Closet
☐ Donate blood or flyer for the UCLA
Blood and Platelet Center
☐ Volunteer with a student-initiated
outreach program at the
Community Programs Office
☐ Volunteer at the UCLA Medical
Center
☐ Participate in the UCLA Relay for Life
☐ Glean excess farmer’s market pro-
duce with Food Forward
☐ Volunteer in the Teaching Kitchen
Project
☐ Donate hair to Locks of Love
☐ Finish a Daily Bruin crossword
puzzle
☐ Write a response to a Daily Bruin
article and have it published
☐ Take a photo in cap and gown for
Bruin Life (UCLA’s yearbook)
☐ Become a recipient of the
Chancellor’s Service Award
☐ Become a finalist or recipient of
the True Bruin Distinguished Senior
Award
☐ Declare candidacy for graduation
☐ Make the Dean’s List
☐ Graduate with Department Honors
☐ Graduate with College Honors
☐ Graduate with Latin Honors
Personal Achievements UCLA Spirit VolunteerCareer
☐ Attend a drop-in Meditation session
☐ Attend a Mindful Music event
☐ Visit the Medicinal Herb Garden at
the Ronald Reagan Medical Center
☐ Take a nap in one of the locations
on the UCLA Nap Map
☐ Participate in GRIT peer-to-peer
coaching
☐ Attend a Healthy Campus Initiative
pod meeting
☐ Nominate a Bruin who helped a
student in crisis for True Bruins
R.A.I.S.E. recognition
☐ Attend a “Science & Food UCLA”
lecture series event
☐ Apply for an HCI Student Grant
☐ Attend a program through
UCLA RISE
☐ Attend a wellness workshop at
UCLA Counseling & Psychological
Services (CAPS)
☐ Attend the Healthy Campus Initiative
Celebration event in Spring
Healthy Living
Create Your Own
☐ Create your own tradition for you
and your friends to participate in
while at UCLA!
Recreation/Outdoors
☐ Relax at Sunset Canyon Recreation
Center
☐ Take a recreation class through
the John Wooden Center
☐ Participate in an IM sport
☐ Walk/run the perimeter of campus
or take a self-guided campus tour
☐ Watch a noon concert in Bruin
Plaza
☐ Visit the UCLA Marina Aquatic
Center in Marina Del Rey
Clubs/Organizations
☐ Join a club or organization
☐ Visit the Enormous Activities Fair
☐ Attend a USAC Open Meeting
☐ Attend a social event held by a
campus club/organization
☐ Attend a Dashew Center event
☐ Participate in an activity or event
held by an academic club or group
☐ Flyer on Bruin Walk for a club or
organization
Once you have completed your traditions, please bring this form
and all supporting documention to 201 Covel Commons no later
than May 1 of your graduating year for verification.
Name:
Student ID Number:
Email Address:
