As a brand new transfer student hundreds of miles away from her home and family in South Korea, fourth-year College student Hyoyeol Chong found herself with nowhere to go during the holidays last fall.
I have trouble transitioning - most evidently seen in my eloquent, refined and incredibly messy essays.
Whether you are hoping to work for an investment bank or just wondering how to spend your summer earnings, learning how to manage money is crucial.
It would be difficult to name a more-significant book about investing than Benjamin Graham's "The Intelligent Investor." Graham formally introduces a new style of investing, called 'value investing.' This book has guided professional investors, such as Warren Buffett, who said it was "by far the best book on investing ever written" for innumerable individuals who invest based on the principles outlined within its pages. "The Intelligent Investor" was published in 1949, and its author is a professional fund manager who became a professor at Columbia University's business school.
Even when students come to the University and begin to regard Grounds as a kind of "home," many individuals - particularly those who have traveled across seas and country borders - are driven to do what they can to maintain strong ties and help their respective countries. One such effort is Towards a Better Latin America, a student organization founded in 2002 by a group of international students who dedicated themselves to raising money and awareness for Latin American communities. The purpose of the organization is to focus on giving back to underdeveloped and underprivileged communities back home, TBLA President Ana Quijano said.
Run, run as fast as you can, you can't catch me, I'm ... a U.Va. student? This happens to me every year.
Jennifer Second-year Nursing Student What are you involved in at the University? Gamma Phi Beta, Madison House What else do you like to do?
This weekend, I attempted investigative journalism in its most serious form - a look into the importance of outfit quality when mingling, dating and partying.
With international students constituting nearly 6 percent of the first-year class, it is not unusual to catch snippets of conversations held in 6 different accents or in different languages entirely.
U.Va. is a courteous place. Whether you've been here for three weeks or three years, you've probably already seen numerous examples of students going out of their ways to lend helping hands.
Living in a dormitory my first year, I felt I had limited choices when it came to Italian food. I gorged on Observatory Hill Dining Hall's spaghetti, College Inn's cheesy bread and Domino's pepperoni pizza, but that was about it.
I don't know what role I play in my social group. My social group consists of my close friends, my less-close friends, my run-into-all-the-time acquaintances, my classmates and my family. I have no experience playing a defined role.
If you've traipsed across Grounds during the past week, you've surely heard the whispers. The stifled screams of frenzied fans.
Sometimes I am surprised by how stereotypical my college life is, though I can't say I'm ever displeased by it.
My byline is inaccurate. Apparently, at least as of Aug. 27, my name is Chuuuuuuu. Yes, I was hypnotized.
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.
