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Julie Chiu
Julie Chiu chose to attend UCLA due to her love of sports. While majoring in sociology and working on campus for the athletics department, she realized she could make sports her career. Since graduating in 1994, she has earned a masters degree in sports business and worked for the athletics departments at three universities, including UCLA. She worked in transportation at the Atlanta Olympics and for NBC for the Sidney Olympics. It was a personal and professional goal of hers to make it to
I am a self-professed Olympic junkie
August 01, 2008
I remember watching Dorothy Hamill win her gold medal and I got a Dorothy Hamill haircut like everyone else. In 1984, I was glued to the TV during summer vacation and watched the Olympics every day.
When I was at UCLA I interned in the ...
Diddy Riese in Beijing
August 04, 2008
Today was a beautiful gorgeous day in Beijing. Blue skies. Sunshine. It was scorching hot at 35 degrees. But hey, at least it's blue skies. Beijing never said anything about comfortable temperature, they're just worried about air quality and rain....
Tiananmen Square a la Rose Parade
August 07, 2008
My friend Shira arrived on Monday night. Danny and I took the new Airport Express to pick her up. The three of us used to work together at the UCLA Athletic Department. I meant to make a UCLA sign and hold that in the Meet-and-Greet area...
Jia You Zhong Guo
August 11, 2008
Today was a special day. Well, that's a bit of an understatement. It felt like a mix of New Year's Eve, Chinese New Year, Thanksgiving and Fourth of July. In fact, it was a holiday as employers gave workers the day off to relieve the congestion on...
Tickets to the Water Cube
August 12, 2008
My friend Rachel called me Friday night to invite me to swimming. I was very excited to go because it was very difficult to get tickets to the Water Cube. Swimming is my favorite Olympic sport.
Normally, the prelims are in the mornings an...
Free tickets to weightlifting
August 17, 2008
On Monday night my boss announced he had 18 tickets to weightlifting for that night. When else would I ever see weightlifting? If I go see weightlifting, I might as well see the BEST in the WORLD. I can't pass up a FREE ticket to an Olympic event....
Eating fried sea dog in Wang Fu Jing
August 19, 2008
On Saturday I took Shira and Danny to check Wang Fu Jing. It's the touristy shopping area very close to Tiananmen Square. It’s a pedestrian shopping area. Put into LA terms for you, it’s like Third Street Promenade but bigger and busier....
Farewell from Beijing
August 26, 2008
I thought I’d dedicate my last blog entry to Bruins in Beijing to actually be about Bruins IN Beijing.
In mid June the Alumni Association held a reception to welcome Chancellor Block to Beijing. I was stoked to have UCLA come to me. U...