1. Eat… a lot: Winter is cold. There’s only so much three sweatshirts, six pairs of socks and your fleece-lined leggings under your jeans can do to prepare you for the biting Charlottesville cold.
The U.Va.-Guatemala Initiative, a Center for Global Health program that brings students and faculty together to benefit Guatemalan people and communities, collaborated with the Department of Emergency Medicine to bring the University “Guatemala Week” this last week, welcoming several Guatemalan guests to Grounds and hosting a variety of events.
Beyond Fey, some of the University’s biggest on-screen alums include Sarah Drew and Jason George from “Grey’s Anatomy,” Sean Patrick Thomas from “Save the Last Dance,” Ben McKenzie from “The O.C.” and Emily Swallow from “The Mentalist.” From the beginning, drama professors noticed exceptional skills in these performers.
Nothing for the boyfriend to be jealous of.
Ah yes, U.Va. — where we have our cake and eat it too. We work hard AND we play hard. Sleep is for the weary, which we are not.
You’ve seen it: a bus almost running over a hypnotized girl blindly walking across McCormick Road, her eyes glued down to her phone’s LCD screen, fingers swiftly tapping away.
Kendrick Lamar blasted over a buzzing Prius full of five second-years, crammed in a backseat next to Pop-Tarts and Chex Mix and Pringles and crumpled candy wrappers as they wound through Pennsylvania.
It’s not secret Bodo’s Bagels, a long-time Charlottesville staple, boasts an amazing, affordable menu, including everything from breakfast and lunch bagel sandwiches to omelets.
I’m the kind of person that needs to consult at least fifty other people before making a decision about anything.
Everyone always says you find yourself in college. That it’s these next few years that shape who you will be to a greater degree than any other experiences you’ve ever had.
The One Love Foundation, which was created to honor the memory of the late University student Yeardley Love, recently updated their mobile app to include a quiz which users can take to help them determine the level of danger, if any, in their own relationships. The Foundation was established in 2010 after Love, a fourth-year College student, was killed in a domestic violence dispute involving alcohol by her former boyfriend George Huguely.
Last week, I received a phone call of the utmost importance. “She’s my girlfriend! She’s my girlfriend!” my seven-year-old cousin exclaimed.
At the age of 20, I am officially an empty nester. After a year of literal sweat, tears and a few drops of paper-cut-induced blood, I am relinquishing my central U.Va.
Second-years exchange fart jokes and pick-up lines over pizza Downtown
The sun was shining on Friday afternoon as family and friends gathered in Garden IX for Sweets for Shelley: Alpha Phi’s First Annual Bake-Off, in honor of Shelley Goldsmith.
Brand new and, as of yet, little known, Students Helping Honduras has come to the University with a mission of education for Hondurans. After attending a national Students Helping Honduras (SHH) leadership workshop over the summer and training to open up a chapter, second-year Nursing student and current SHH president Nicole Burkhardt brought the nonprofit to U.Va.
Today I met a girl named Shannon in Old Cabell Hall. We did not speak. In fact, she didn’t even see me.
Maybe it’s just that I’m no longer confined to a dorm, but this semester I have noticed a dramatic increase in the number of dogs making their way around Charlottesville.
Fall break is a time for family. It’s a time for Halloween decorations and pumpkin lattes. It’s a time to shirk your studying duties in favor of “Sleepy Hollow” marathons and late night drives through the back roads of the hometown you secretly miss.
Since when have our parents been people? Seriously. Even though we’ve known, lived and interacted with them for as long as we remember, did we initially perceive our parents in relation to others?
