A typical high school morning for fourth-year College student Erin Avery began like any average teenager's.
As usual, Shakespeare had it right when he said, "All the world's a stage/ And all the men and women merely players." When we think of this quote, it often stirs ideas of the many roles we play throughout our life - student, worker, sister, brother, son, best friend and so on.
Since its founding in 1819, the University has had its fair share of well-known traditions, but it also has had an even larger share of secrets and forgotten history. This past Thursday, the Jefferson Literary and Debating Society and the Miller Center of Public Affairs honored the University's past with the event, "Secrets and Traditions of U.Va." The presentation was hosted by George Gilliam, the Center's assistant director for public programs and chair of the Forum Program.
Environmental Science isn't a real major. Neither is Studies of Women and Gender or Urban Planning or Art History or Systems Engineering.
To anyone else, walking to class may simply involve placing one foot in front of the other. To me, it's a fight for my life against the University's deadliest and most terrifying creatures.
My favorite things in the world are words. Words strung together harmoniously. Words placed piecemeal in an uneven hiccup of a sentence.
The last echoes of the Rotunda Sing had hardly faded when students began lining up to audition for the University's myriad of a cappella groups. With so many groups on Grounds, just about any interested student could find one that suits his tastes.
If you haven't recently heard someone start a sentence with the words, "Well, in this economy ..." then you've been living in a cave.
It seems that every time you turn on the television or listen to the radio, you're inundated by advertisements about buying gold.
First-year students have it easy. They check a website that tells them where they live and who their roommates are.
There is a secret that 6students at the University have worked hard to preserve throughout the years.
Kayla Second-year Nursing
Hello, old friends! I hope you all had great vacations with plenty of hot summer romances - preferably with tall Europeans and Amazonian babes with foreign accents and rippling muscles.
University students make many decisions during their four years at college, the most common of which usually include whether to live on Grounds or off, which internships to apply for and how to balance a social life and their studies.
I think pretty much every guy at one point has felt the sting of embarrassment from a seemingly harmless action that appears to others as just a little girly.
As the new academic year commences, the search for previously unexplored and exciting food options does as well, particularly for those students who are relying less and less on University dining halls.
Based on an alarmingly accurate poll that I made up for this column, nearly 85 percent of adults between the ages of 18 and 25 are inadequately hydrated.
Fall 1970: 450 women arrive on Grounds, ready to claim their spots as the first female students ever admitted to the College.
When I'm sad or uncomfortable or jealous, I generally use one of two defensive maneuvers: sleep or insults. When I was 16, my heart was broken into about nine pieces.
I owe it all to James Van Der Beek. I admit that I am one of those pathetic girls who used to sit at home for hours just to watch a marathon of "Dawson's Creek." So it should be no surprise that one fateful summer afternoon I would watch MTV's "When I Was Seventeen" just to get a glimpse into the former heartthrob's life as a teenager.
