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By Pamela sf Kong A North Campus Student Searches for the Bio-Med Library As I made the ten-minute trek from North Campus into South Campus, my eyes began to grow wide in search of the thick glasses I heard I would find amongst the Southerners at UCLA. Yeah, I knew about South Campus, the land of techies, of people who are brainiacs in Math and Science, who are made of aspirations to become doctors and chemists. South Campus, the land of mystique or boredom, known, but uncharted by the social sciences. Now, if I just followed that guy in the lab coat, I would probably end up at the Bio-Med library. Of course such a conjecture still left dubious the matter of when I would actually get into the Bio-Med library as I saw him head towards a parked car. And lo and behold! Land Ho! Anchor! Bio-Med Library just ahead! Right Ahead! There it was, in all its "splendito," the fruit of my courage, my willingness to traverse the unknown. And the adventure was just beginning! I pushed past the doors and to my dismay, not everyone was dressed in a lab coat, and where were those thick glasses I had heard about? The first floor of the Bio-Med library wasn't even huge. It was rather small compared to URL on North Campus. There was a periodical section on the first floor and computers to research and find research. As I made my way up the stairs, I kept seeing books and books and more books. There were numerous collections of medical journals and psychology reports, vast volumes of neurobiology and studies of health and even reports on the effects of implementing certain policies amongst groups of people. Would there be information then on medical insurance for people in California? I knew that I had to know. After all, that was another one of the things on which I had chosen to write. However, I was not about to spend all my adventures in one day. I knew the Bio-Med library wasn't going anywhere. I would just have to come back. And so I walked away from South Campus without having found that sea of coke bottle lenses, but I did learn that I had discovered a gem. I knew that there was a part of South Campus that had become useful in my mind and could be a resource for many of the things, which I may later need to know. (Pamela sf Kong is a Senior majoring in Asian American Studies.)