UCLA Library wants to remind you that we're here to support your research AND your de-stressing!
Join us for live de-stress events!
Movement and Meditation 🧘
- Take some time to relax, stretch, and breathe through movement and meditation.
- Location: RISE Center - Lu Valle Commons
- Day: Wednesday, 06/05
- Time: 10:00 - 11:00AM
Spring Percussion Ensemble Concert 🎵
- The UCLA Percussion Ensemble is comprised of students performing from the ever-growing volume of percussion ensemble literature and presents one public performance each quarter.
- Location: Schoenberg Hall
- Day: Monday, 06/03
- Time: 8:00PM
- Event Website: Link
RISE Drop-In Hours 💬
- Feel free to drop by and chat with RISE staff! Whether you want to discuss campus mental health resources, get connected to CAPS, manage academic stress, or just need someone to talk to, we're here for you.
- Location: RISE Center - Lu Valle Commons
- Day & Time: Check RISE Website
ASC Winter Cookie and Cramming 🍪
- Join ASC as we turn the James West Alumni Center into a study space. Student's are welcome to settle in and study, grab a cup of coffee and maybe even a cookie or two.
- Location: James West Alumni Center
- Day: Wednesday, 06/05
- Time: 6:00PM
- Event Website: Link
Residential Life: Study Break 🌵
- Join us for a quick study break before final exams begin. Succulents, painting, bracelet making, and more!
- Location: Sunset Plaza
- Day: Saturday, 06/08
- Time: 6:00 - 8:00PM
Dashew Study Break 🍪
- Join us on Thursday, June 6th for a wellness event during finals week. Stop by for some free snacks to fuel you through finals season. We will also be providing wellness goodie bags for the first 50 attendees!
- Location: Bradley Hall 1st Floor Lobby
- Day: Thursday 06/06
- Time: 11:00AM - 12:30PM
UCLA Flux Spring Concert 🎶
- uclaFLUX is devoted to the performance of chamber music from the 20th and 21st centuries. We explore and embrace new performance approaches and techniques associated with the dynamic, ever-evolving languages of contemporary music.
- Location: Schoenberg Hall
- Day: Friday 06/07
- Time: 5:00PM
DASHE to Finals: Free Healthy Snacks from The Ashe Center & HEART! 🍎🍫
- FREE apples, bananas, nuts, and granola bars for students (brain food!) and hot coffee and orange juice to get students revved up and ready to study for finals! We're also passing out scantrons and blue books. Drop by and grab some snacks and supplies.
- Location: Ashe Center Entrance, Bruin Plaza
- Day: Wednesday 06/05
- Time: 9:30AM - 12:00PM
Tote Bag Decoration 👜
- Create a personalized, unique summer tote bag with acrylic markers, iron-on patches and buttons!
- Location: Powell Library 238
- Day: Tuesday 06/11
- Time: 1:00 - 3:00PM
Chair Massage 💆
Feeling tense or fatigued? A few minutes of a chair massage focused on the back, neck, and shoulders can improve circulation, reduce stress and tension, and rejuvenate your spirit. Drop in for an ergonomic chair massage and let UCLA Library and UCLA Recreation help relieve your end-of-year stress!
Location: Biomedical Library 12-077 CHS, Research Commons
- Thursday, 06/07 1:30 - 3:30PM
- Monday, 06/10 12:00 - 2:00PM
Location: Rosenfeld/Management Library E211 Foyer 1 and Foyer 2
- Wednesday, 06/05 2:30 - 4:30PM
Location: Charles E. Young Research Library
- Tuesday, 06/11 12:00 - 2:00PM
PAC Therapy Dogs 🐶
De-stress by petting some furry friends! Hosted by PAC (UCLA People-Animal Connection)!
Location: Charles E. Young Research Library
- Thursday, 06/07 11:00AM - 1:00PM
- Monday, 06/10 11:00AM - 1:00PM
Game Day Pop-Up Handout 🎮
- Need a break from finals? Brought to you by the UCLA Library Games Pop-Up, check out this handout full of pen and play games!
Coffee/Tea Schedule ☕️🍵
- Location: Biomedical Library
- Thursday, 06/06 9:00AM - 1:00PM
- Location: Powell Library
- Monday, 06/10 9:00AM - 1:00PM
- Location: Charles E. Young Research Library
- Wednesday, 06/12 3:00PM - 10:00PM
Snacks 🍿
- Location: Music Library
- Friday, 06/07 10:00AM - 1:00PM
- Location: Arts Library
- Monday, 06/10 10:00AM - 1:00PM
- Location Powell Library
- Monday, 06/10 5:00PM - 11:00PM
- Location: Science and Engineering Library (Boelter)
- Wednesday, 06/12 8:00AM - 11:00PM
Origami Paper 🦢🪁
- Location: At the Arts Library, Biomedical Library, Science and Engineering Library/Boelter and Geology Library, Music Library, and Powell Library
- Ongoing: Week 10 and Finals Week
Mindful Mediatation 🧸
- Let the UCLA Library and the UCLA Mindful Awareness Research Center (MARC) help you manage stress during finals and be mindful of the present moment. Take a moment for yourself to stop, breathe, observe and connect with your inner experience!
- Location: Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library
- Day: Tuesday 06/04
- Time: 10:00 - 11:00AM
Pet rock-making kits 🪨👀
- Location: Science and Engineering Library/Geology
- Ongoing: Week 10 and Finals Week
Puzzles 🧩
- Location: Biomedical Library and Powell Library
- Ongoing: Week and Finals Week
Coloring Pages 🖍️🎨
- Location: Arts Library, Biomedical Library, Science and Engineering Library/Boelter, Music Library and Powell Library
- Ongoing: Week 10 and Finals Week
If you can't make these live events, we've compiled some resources for you to relax with on your own time! 😌
- Winter Movies
- UCLA Music Library Playlists
- Writing Instruction + Research Education resources for finals
- Positive Affirmations
- Library Coloring Pages
- Pets of Powell
- Escape from Powell! (a virtual escape room)
- Book Recommendations
- Free Games
- Puzzle Corner
- Arts Library Recommendations
- Relaxing Videos
- Free Meditation App
- Westwood Study Spots
To enjoy all of these resources please connect to the UCLA Virtual Private Network. 🛜
As a UCLA student, you can watch these movies right now for free!
Free Films! 🎬
Summer Days with Coo (2007): One day, Koichi Uehara, a fourth-grader living in the suburbs of Tokyo, picks up a fossil that looks like a large stone while on his way home from school. To his surprise, he has picked up a baby Kappa (a Japanese mythical water creature), who has been asleep underground for the past 300 years. Koichi names this baby creature “Coo” and brings him to live with his family, and soon the two are inseparable friends. However, trouble abounds as Coo struggles to adjust to life in suburban Tokyo, and begins to miss his family, leading Koichi and Coo to embark on a summer road trip adventure in search of other Kappa.
When the Beat Drops (2018): Drop into the electric and subversive underground dance scene known as bucking. As voguing exploded out of the ballroom scene of NYC, bucking was boldly pioneered in the clubs of the Deep South as a new form of self-expression. WHEN THE BEAT DROPS presents a fresh glimpse into the magnetic artistry and flair behind this emerging dance culture. In his feature debut, famed choreographer and filmmaker Jamal Sims, who has worked with the likes of Madonna, Jennifer Lopez, and RuPaul’s Drag Race, illuminates the warm-hearted and fierce queer black performers who make up one of the leading “bucking” groups in the city of Atlanta. As they train for their biggest competition yet, they face the risk of losing their jobs and family to compete at the top levels of this dance scene.
The Secret of Kells (2009): Young Brendan lives in a remote medieval outpost under siege from barbarian raids. But a new life of adventure beckons when a celebrated master illuminator arrives from foreign lands carrying an ancient but unfinished book, brimming with secret wisdom and powers.
The Last Unicorn (1982): A brave unicorn and a magician fight an evil king who is obsessed with attempting to capture the world's unicorns.
This Beautiful Fantastic (2016): A contemporary fairy tale revolving around the unlikely of friendship between a reclusive young woman with dreams of being a children’s book author and a cantankerous widower, set against the backdrop of a beautiful garden in the heart of London.
The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love (1995): Randy is a low economic class lesbian living with other lesbians including her aunt. Evie is a wealthy, popular girl with a boyfriend. When Evie befriends Randy, she begins to feel a passion for her she's never felt before.
Welcome to the Space Show/Uchû shô e yôkoso (2010): With an intergalactic cast of thousands, Koji Masunari’s colorfully explosive debut feature sets a new high for visual spectacle and sheer inventiveness of character design – in what has to be one of the most gleefully surreal depictions of alien life forms ever portrayed in cinema.
Maybe you prefer to dance the stress out?
The UCLA Music Library has created playlists... 🎵
to help you dance, energize, reflect, relax, and exercise during finals! We've also created a playlist for children (and everyone else)
Or maybe you're looking for some Relaxing Meadow ASMR?
Or stress relief resources from the Herb Alpert School of Music?
And don't forget about LoFi Girl!
Want to design a less stressed version of yourself?
Spend some time designing your own avatar! 😎
Try out one of hundreds of amazing avatar generators on Picrew!
Not sure where to start? Try out this makowka character maker!
Or design your own LoFi Girl avatar!
Are you down to the wire on an assignment and looking for support?
Here are some of our favorite Writing Instruction + Research Education resources for finals season! 💻📖
- Remote Study Strategies: The Pomodoro Technique
- Contacting Instructors
- A Beginner's Guide to Notion
- Get Started with Zotero
- WI+RE's Introduction to Chatbots
- Critically Evaluating Resources
- WI+RE's Guide to Networking
- Research Paper Planner
- Breaking Down Your Prompt
- Strategies for Taking a Timed Exam
- How to Navigate Retaking a Course
UCLA staff and faculty believe in you and they left you some words of encouragement and advice.
Color me!
Illustration of a student's bedroom intercut with Powell Library Main Reading Room in the light of the laptop screen by Brett Affrunti.
Arts Library Vintage Childhood 1970's Wonder Woman Coloring Book Pages
Biomedical Library Special Collections Coloring Pages 🎨
Maywill Dudley illustrated several books of fairy tales for Whitman Publishing (Racine, Wisconsin) in the 1930s, as well as two activity books: Let's Read and Paint (1934) and The Toy Shop: a Cut-out Book (1935).
Milton Bradley Company (Springfield, Massachusetts), the longtime publisher of board games and activity books, used a dozen of her illustrations in Health Posters to Color and Study.
More Health Conscious Coloring Books 🎨
- USDA Farmers' Market Coloring Book
- A to Z: A California Crops Coloring Book
- The ABC's of Good Health
Feeling artistically invigorated? Submit your own original library inspired art to the Powell Portfolio in order to be featured on UCLA Library social media
Library staff want to share their cute pets with you!
Pets of Powell 🐈
Live Cams!
Watch these cute animals play!
Escape from Powell Library!
Find your way out of this virtual escape room! 🔑
It's the night before the beginning of Finals Week in Powell Library. Even though you're on your third cup of Stressbusters coffee, you can't stop yawning. You're about to break out the Yerba Mate and maybe take a scooter back to the Hill, but your eyelids keep getting heavier and heavier. You figure a nap can't hurt, so you curl up in the nearest chair...
When you wake up, you're alone and the library is dark. Apparently, even the echo of the midnight yell couldn't wake you. Your cell phone and laptop are both dead, and no one is present at the CLICC desk to loan you a charger. You try the doors, but they're locked! The only light in the entire library is the blue glow from the screen of the computer behind the checkout desk...
Get lost (and then find yourself) in a good book! 📕
Mis(h)adra by Iasmin Oma Ata
Attack on Titan by Hajime Isayama
My Name Was Never Frankenstein: And Other Classic Adventure Tales Remixed by Bryan Furuness
Superwomen: Gender, Power, and Representation by Carolyn Cocca
Bingo Love by Tee Franklin, Jenn St. Onge, Joy San, Cardinal Rae
The many deaths of Laila Starr by Ram V
Squire by Sara Alfageeh, Nadia Shammas
Far sector by N.K. Jemisin
How about a game night?
Looking for something puzzling? (Besides your homework)
Or some cool art resources to spark your creativity?
Art Resources Recommended by UCLA Arts Library 🎨
- Leila Slimani: What Are We if Not a Story
- Samanta Schweblin: How to Train to be a Writer
- Alex Da Corte: As Long as the Sun Lasts
- Adam Khalil: Trojan Horse Filmmaking
Art21
Art21 is a celebrated global leader in presenting thought-provoking and sophisticated content about contemporary art, and the go-to place to learn first-hand from the artists of our time. A nonprofit organization, Art21’s mission is to inspire a more creative world through the works and words of contemporary artists.
Turn your brain off with these videos!
Did you know you have access to a FREE meditation app?
Download the free UCLA Mindful App! 📱
Practice mindfulness meditation anywhere with the UCLA Mindful Awareness Research Center! Manage stress, reduce anxiety, and cultivate positivity and well being! You can also check out the RISE Holistic Healing Library to access resources without having to download an app.
Find the perfect study spots around Westwood to boost your focus during your study sessions!
Hammer Museum Courtyard:
- Enjoy a relaxing outside environment at the Hammer Museum. Check out the beautiful architecture and green atmosphere while also boosting your studies.
- 10899 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90024
UCLA Mathias Botanical Garden
- With over 3,000 species of plants, this 7-acre garden has outdoor seating for reading and relaxing.
- 707 Tiverton Dr, Los Angeles, CA 90095
Espresso Profeta
- Walk over to one of Westwood's coffee study spots to enjoy a calm and serene environment to help you concentrate for finals! Work hard while also enjoying great coffee and treats.
- 1129 Glendon Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90024
Westwood Public Library
- Looking for a change from the UCLA Library? (Our feelings aren't hurt, we promise!) Check out the Westwood Public Library.
- 1246 Glendon Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90024
Alfred Coffee
- Focus on your studies while also enjoying a great selection of coffee and teas. The coffee shops offer great indoor seating and great food and coffee selections.
- 1154 Westwood Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90024
Westwood Park
- Study outside at a picnic table or de-stress at the free open Play courts.
- 1350 S Sepulveda Blvd Los Angeles CA
Ministry of Coffee
- For all coffee lovers, treat yourself by studying in a great coffee spot with great food and good vibes. This study spot offers indoor and outside seating and amazing energy to help you work even harder.
- 1010 Glendon Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90024
Elysee Bakery & Cafe
- Boost your studies by enjoying one of Westwood's famous coffee shops with a great outside area and a huge selection of cakes and pastries. Great place to give yourself a little treat for working hard
- 1099 Gayley Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90024
Ok, Bruins! You've GOT THIS! Go forth, knock out those finals, and do some SERIOUS de-stressing! 😌💙
