Chris Fourth-year engineering student What are you involved in at U.Va.? Alternative Spring Break, U.Va.
Meeting the parents in college is a much bigger deal than it was in high school. In high school, your boyfriend had to meet your family within the first couple weeks of dating because, well, you lived with them, and they still had a lot of control of what you were doing.
Most departments at the University draw funding from the state, private sources and student fees. But the athletic department's funding model relies on entirely different sources to generate revenue and pay out millions of dollars in scholarships to student-athletes who compete with 25 different teams across each athletic season. Funding model Ticket sales, payments from the Atlantic Coast Conference and NCAA, private gifts and student fees constitute the bulk of the department's revenue.
What do Leonardo da Vinci, P. Diddy and Bill Clinton all have in common? They have all been rumored to have "alternative sleeping habits." With papers galore, quizzes and exams, go ahead and add me to the list. I have always admired the few determined souls who are able to commit to a regular sleep pattern, especially one of a full eight hours' worth of beauty rest, each and every night.
Sometimes I think college students are too focused on the social scene near 14th Street and Rugby Road.
You have seven minutes to prepare and present a speech based on Albert Einstein's saying, "Imagination is more important than knowledge." Go. This is what students in the Impromptu category from the U.Va.
One of things I have enjoyed most about my second year of being a student-athlete on the women's basketball team is the looming threat of study hall.
I am sitting in a booth in Clemons. I'm realizing that things are not looking up. It's not like I thought that they were looking up, or that they were going to start looking up pretty soon.
KRS-One, an MC and pioneer in hip-hop music and culture, once proclaimed in his song "Hip-Hop Lives" that "Hip and hop is more than music - hip is the knowledge, hop is the movement." The Student Hip-Hop Organization at the University wants to educate the rest of the community about this culture. Although most members of the club learned to appreciate hip-hop during childhood, SHHO began with a midsummer trip to Richmond.
What do I have in common with both Barack Obama and Oprah Winfrey? If you guessed that I am black and older than 40 years old with an uncanny ability to attract housewives, then obviously you know me very well.
Someone once told me to count my blessings. It may or may not have been my mother, and she may or may not have been chastising me for being an obnoxiously spoiled middle-class American girl.
Most students will participate in a seminar during their college careers to fulfill their graduation requirements.
In August 2001, rhythm and blues superstar Mary J. Blige released the soulful classic, "No More Drama." About 6.5 million albums have been sold worldwide, earning triple-platinum status.
Have you ever been walking along, minding your own business and heard that familiar "hock puh" sound right beside you, and then looked to see a giant spit wad landing dangerously close to your shoes?
University coffee-addicts are faced with a difficult problem: where to find that perfect cup of java.
It's that time of year. The leaves are falling. The weather can't decide whether it wants to be 65 degrees and sunny or 45 degrees and miserable.
I don't know what real is. Is it that which is actually experienced or seen or known? This question gets really messy, really quickly. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, reality is "the state of things as they actually exist, as opposed to an idealistic or notional idea of them." But in light of the influence of mass media and networks that shape our views about what we might call reality, everything I know of current events is filtered through the scope of someone else, someone creating a "notional idea" of the state of things. So what is real? Contrary to popular - or more appropriately, pop cultural - belief, reality TV is not real.
A concrete paint-splattered floor, fancy light stands, camera equipment and cords crisscrossing across the ground - Dell 2 has become a renegade warehouse production of a full-fledged musical. The first full-length musical created for the primary purpose of being put online - the project of fourth-year College student Jeffrey Luppino-Esposito - has a cast of 32 members and a leadership and production team of 16 students.
If you've ever watched "How I Met Your Mother," it's likely that you're familiar with the word "lawyered." For those who haven't seen the show, the study guide version is as follows - Marshall, a lawyer, uses simple lawyer's logic to win an argument.
Ah, Sunday - the day most of my roommates and I have standing dates with homework and migrate to Clemons Library or Lambeth Commons by noon.
