I am thankful the lights are incredibly dim in Boylan; the darkness hides my crimson-flushed face after I was royally called out for being a know-it-all. I was catching up with friends on my first night back at the University, when the conversation turned to the Barnes Art Collection in Philadelphia and a class my friend took on Dutch Masters.
This past week was tough for old and new sorority members alike. Whether you were one of the 1,000 girls going through recruitment or one of the 2,000 on the other side, you are undoubtedly exhausted and emotionally drained.
Oscar Year: Fourth Major: Economics Hometown: Richmond Ideal Date Personality: The effervescence of Jennifer Lawrence after acquiring Emma Watson’s wit and Amy Poehler’s humor. Ideal Date Activity: One-on-one basketball, followed by 18 holes of golf, followed by dinner and a movie. Deal breakers? Unappreciative, full of complaints, a Chelsea fan. Hobbies: Camping, building things, investing, making music, gaming. What makes you a good catch? One word: synergy.
Not many students can say they took gap years to travel the country on behalf of the Invisible Children, biked halfway across Canada, and participated as a student delegate in the United Nations Lima Climate Change Conference.
Hoo Crew—U.Va.’s student cheer section—is supporting the University’s men’s basketball team in victory after victory as the squad defends its position as number two in the nation.
The Pear app, scheduled to launch this week, innovates the opportunity to match-make Facebook friends.
For as long as I can remember, I wanted to be a Hollywood film director. My adventures in show business began at age nine, when my sister and I used a handheld camera to recreate the greatest movie we had ever seen.
Many people oversleep, but few pursue it with any real thought. I’ve decided that oversleeping is like war; the sleeping self must conquer the alarm clock.
Rush is weird. Having gone through recruitment four times now—once as a “rushee” and three times as a sorority woman—I can knowingly say it does not get much better. Each year, I approached the process differently.
I had never known exactly what Boxing Day was until my Canadian cousin explained it to me during winter break—it’s a holiday of mostly historical value, observed in celebrating countries by closing nearly all businesses and banks.We in the States, however, typically do just the opposite this time of year—come December 26, malls become just about as crowded as they were barely a month ago, on the infamous Black Friday. On the morning after Christmas, Americans tend to pivot and head back to the mall to exchange the gifts we received for what we really wanted.
Coming back from winter break, I got in to Charlottesville around 2 p.m. I only had one errand to run that day and, naturally, I didn’t get around to it until 9 p.m.
“College has changed you,” my friend said with disgust. Upon hearing these words, I was immediately ashamed.
I’ve come to associate the start of spring semester with the onset of chronic lethargy. Winter break works its best at licking the wounds of fall semester, but four weeks of traveling or binge-watching never seem long enough to extinguish the remnants of postpartum final exam malaise.
The top 10 things you missed about Charlottesvile while you were home for Winter Break.
In equating my stay in Spain to a dream, I fail to conceptualize that for many people, those small treasures I cherished comprise a daily reality.
First-year Engineering student Henry Muhlbauer manages challenging coursework, extracurricular involvement and sports events like his peers on Grounds.
In a small room at the local Seminole Trail Volunteer Fire Department, University students sleep lightly, knowing an emergency call could come in at any moment.
It was fitting that my trip to the dog park coincided perfectly with the end of my first semester at college.
In Stephen King’s memoir On Writing, King compares the process of crafting long works of fiction to “crossing the Atlantic Ocean in a bathtub.” Easy for him to say, considering his bathtub is equipped with a high-performance engine.
With the release of Taylor Swift’s most recent album, most of my free time not spent writing essays has been devoted to watching her music videos on repeat until the wee hours of the morning.
