Life

Life

Learning to keep up with the pace

By Annie Cohen | March 21, 2013

This new year, I decided to sign up for the Charlottesville 10-miler. I had been frustrated with the lack of direction in my life and completing this test of endurance would not only help me get in shape after the holidays, but would more importantly be a tangible goal for me to work toward Over winter break it was easy to follow the training plan I found online when my only obligations were to sleep, watch TV, and occasionally drive my sister somewhere.

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Sex & Relationships

Brett is back: The first Love Connection sequel

By Allie Griswold | March 20, 2013

Brett and Laura share a burger — and actually kind of like each other.

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Life

Top 10 Reasons Why Spring Break Tops School

By Annie Mester | March 20, 2013

1. Mom’s cooking: I gave myself a rule when I went home last week: calories consumed during spring break don’t count.

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Life

Student Ministry Croquets for Haiti

By Julia Horowitz | March 19, 2013

Croquet for Haiti, a Catholic Student Ministry philanthropy event now in its third year, is just one of the many initiatives sponsored by the organization in its effort to foster deeper relations with the local and international religious communities.

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Life

Musings of a Dillard Dweller

By Laura Holshouser | March 19, 2013

Spring Break is obviously the best. Warm weather, if you’re lucky enough to go make it at least 500 miles south, offers an interruption from Charlottesville’s blustery, wintry doldrums.

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Life

Is Cancun real life?

By Abbi Sigler | March 19, 2013

Like many of you, I’m in spring break recovery mode. This was the first – read only – year of college I did something adventurous.

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Life

A Work in Progress

By Connelly Hardaway | March 19, 2013

I could probably write 800 words about how and why certain people call me and my sister the name we call ourselves, but I want to talk about what Fuzz said next: “Tell her to come up; I’ve never known your sister to turn down a drink.”

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Life

When there is such a thing as bad press

By Julia Horowitz | March 18, 2013

As a member of the press, I will be the first to tell you — the press is not your friend. This is especially true if you attend the University of Virginia, where the story of President Teresa Sullivan’s botched ouster, handled with all the grace of Janet Jackson’s historic Super Bowl dance, haunts our hallowed Grounds even a year later.

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Life

Featured Faces

By Lauren Jones | March 18, 2013

Only by looking at multiple perspectives can we really begin to understand what it means to live and study here in Charlottesville.

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Life

Our Haus in the Middle of Our Street

By Tyler Gurney | March 18, 2013

After spending six months in Houston, Texas last year, I was really craving a great Charlottesville cupcake.

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Life

Breaking free of the bubble

By Anne-Marie Albracht | March 18, 2013

We spend our entire lifetime trying to figure out how to live. As college students, we pull all-nighters to make better grades to get better jobs to make more money to improve our quality of life and “live better.” Your train of thought may not exactly follow those lines, but in general, that’s pretty much how it goes.

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Life

Small fleeting moments

By Mimi Montgomery | March 17, 2013

This spring break I spent eight days in Brazil with the Seeds of Hope trip, a much-needed departure from my life in Charlottesville and the anxieties and fixations that accompany it.

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Life

Lights out, Life's out

By Kate Colver | March 7, 2013

Sleep upstages food, water, and shelter among my primal needs. Seriously though, this business of calling 2 a.m. an “early bedtime” is absurd. I aim to land in my bed somewhere between 11 p.m. and midnight — and by 11 I actually mean 10:15 p.m.

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Life

Stressless Sticky Notes

By Lizard Joynes | March 7, 2013

There was a little bit more color than usual around Grounds last week. If you looked hard enough, you could spot the small squares of pink, red, orange and green that added subtle springtime decorations to some libraries, hallways, and even a few bathroom stalls.

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Life

Ask Edgar

March 6, 2013

The only advice you should ever take from a U.Va. dropout.

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Sex & Relationships

Date Dichotomy: Mixed Vibes at the Biltmore

By Alex Stock | March 6, 2013

Astrophysics major and Christian girl share little in common.

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Life

Centered around History

By Justine Broecker | March 5, 2013

In mid-January, the revamped Jefferson City School Center held its opening ceremony and official rechristening at the site of the 90-year-old Jefferson School, a historically rich building that previously housed the first site of racial integration in Charlottesville.

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Life

Fool me Twice: Accidental Lessons

By Courtney Hartnett | March 5, 2013

As the pain of the fractures from my biking accident eased throughout the spring semester of my first year, I retained a healthy fear of moving vehicles.

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Life

Ramblings of a Cubicle Dweller

By Emily Churchill | March 5, 2013

There’s something oddly comforting about studying in a cubicle. Perhaps these are just the crazed ramblings of someone who has been inside looking at book pages for too long, but I haven’t been able to shake this thought for a few weeks now. What once was a sad, drudging plod to Clemons has become a ritual.

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Life

Burdened with the best ones

By Mary Scott Hardaway | March 5, 2013

It’s the beginning of March and in a few days I will be boarding a plane headed to Key West, Fl. It’s my first “college spring break;” the first time my final destination has been somewhere other than home in Gloucester.