Although I had a great time during my Spring Break trip to Europe, I quickly realized keeping my guard up was the best strategy while visiting foreign countries. Before arriving in Spain, I heard tales of widespread pickpocketing in Barcelona.
Some University students do not settle for popular, generic dance moves party-goers generally show off weekend nights.
Every Tuesday evening, I meet up with two of my closest friends to prepare dinner and catch up on our lives.
Hi, my name is Alyssa, and I am addicted to my Blackberry. It has been exactly 2 minutes and 4 seconds since I last checked for messages.
Students are not the only people who sometimes have difficulty adjusting to life in Charlottesville.
My voice has been growing lower and lower for the past few weeks, and I can't say I dislike it. It's actually kind of cool to hear your voice as it's never been before - sort of similar to the effects of sucking helium out of your birthday balloons, except the complete opposite reaction. Nevertheless, it's still not the best experience in the world.
It seemed too perfect to be true. I was walking back from chemistry class one day when I happened upon a poster for a lecture on April 6.
Take a seat in the nearest chair. Allow your heavy eyes to close. Deeply inhale, then exhale. Step back from the ruckus that is your University life and scrupulously distinguish between those situations that are controllable and those that are fundamentally beyond your reach.
In honor of the University's upcoming publicity stunt known formally as Days on the Lawn, I have decided to write a brief message to the prospective members of the class of 2014.
Think you know all there is to know about Chinese food? Think again. There may be a whole new realm to the Americanized menu of General Tao's chicken, Asian sesame chicken and lo mein, topped with a batch of white rice that you have yet to discover. Located on 612 Albemarle Square, Taste of China offers a popular authentic Szechuan menu from the legendary Peter Chang, one of China's finest and most well-known chefs.
I dislike indecisiveness. Wen I see it in other people, I just want to make them just choose something, one way or another.
The change in seasons reminds me that we cannot completely sever the fundamental and deeply fixed ties we have with food, however processed, packaged or artificial it may be. Even if weeks pass by when we subsist off Lean Cuisines, protein energy bars, Red Bull and sugar-filled lattes, somehow times of seasonal transition beckon us to examine our eating habits.
Did you ever have to complete those creative, problem-solving activities when you were little? You know the kind that says, "Here's a piece of string, half a roll of toilet paper and a bendy straw.
No matter what religion you practice, you are probably familiar with the more commercial trademarks of Easter: chocolate eggs and bunnies.
A new chapter of the international human rights group ONE recently started up on Grounds, and the organization is looking to find its niche within the student body at the University. The chapter is part of an international grassroots campaign grounded in fighting hunger, extreme poverty and diseases overseas.
The lights dim in the auditorium. Anticipation builds within the room. The introducer begins to warm up the waiting crowd and is greeted with ... silence. This reaction is not because Prof.
As a fourth-year student, I cannot begin to express my frustration toward all those people who continually ask me what I plan to do after I leave this haven called Charlottesville.
From the top of the Astronomical Tower, the city of Prague sprawled out before us. Weaving streets lined with red rooftops radiated from Old Town Square below, where tiny dots of people scurried back and forth across gray cobbled stones.
It is fair game to judge a book by its cover. Right now, I am not talking about books. I am talking about classifications of people. Before continuing, I would like to note I have never been a consultant for GQ nor do I presume to know a lot about fashion.
On my way home from class the other day, I couldn't help but admire the serenity of the beautiful city around me.
