During the elaborate student hubbub last week on the South Lawn in preparation for Senator Clinton's visit, I kept myself busy by gathering up the multitude of posters and walking away like a kid retiring from a very successful trick-or-treat.
On a dreary Friday afternoon, as most University students are heading home to unwind before the weekend, fourth-year College student Ryan Hurley and fourth-year Continuing Education student Pat Mellors are preparing to dive into the water for a two-hour swim practice. It's their second of the day.
This time a year ago, I was somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean, fresh out of Brazil's Carnaval and en route to South Africa, to date my favorite country that I have visited.
Every year, many University undergraduates are admitted into law schools, medical schools and business schools.
Warning: Objects in photos are not as large as they appear. This disclaimer should be tagged on every tour guide pamphlet and history book so poor innocent American students studying abroad don't finally arrive at Stonehenge only to react, "Huh, well ... I guess it was important to see it." I'm not kidding.
For the past month, someone has been following me. I don't know who or where he or she is. All I know is that someone has been monitoring my every move since the day I arrived in London, and to tell you the truth, I'm a bit freaked out. London is known as the most "watched" city on the planet because of the high threat of terrorist activity.
For all music lovers in constant search of new independent bands, the solution may be in sight: Welcome to guavagarage.com. First-year College student Daniel Brown, one of the co-founders of guavagarage, described the Web site -- which is in developmental stages -- as "an online music community dedicated to independent bands." Co-founder Mike Logan, a sophomore at Muhlenberg College in Pennsylvania, added that guavagarage will allow music groups, recording artists and studios to form a tight-knit online community while providing music artists with a way to find venues, distribute their work and connect with fans. Brown said he and his friend Daniel Kessler, a sophomore at Muhlenberg College, developed the idea for the Web site last summer.
I had one of the most peculiar experiences of my college career the other day in Alderman Café. It was about noon on a Sunday and I had gone there to enjoy a little coffee and finish some reading.
When Tom Cruise asked me to join the Church of Scientology last week, I was shocked. Why would Tom Cruise, a level VII Operating Thetan (OT), care so much about me, a regular person (RP)? Why did he choose me out of all the patrons dining at Denny's that Sunday afternoon?
10:00: I'm currently in my English class listening to my professor speak passionately about an important literary topic, although he mumbles so much that I'm not sure whether he's talking about Hamlet or about how cute the Care Bears are (so cute!). But every few minutes, like a dolphin resurfacing for air, I can understand a word he says, and, like a dolphin, I become so excited that I flop around and squeak for fish.
Students sat in Newcomb Hall Feb. 9, eagerly soaking up all the wisdom they could from the five panelists sitting in front of them.
Ice cream: truly the greatest food ever invented. It deserves hours upon hours of investigation, research and indulgence.
Every Monday and Tuesday night, University students gather to be transported to another culture -- that of belly dance.
Valentine's Day is a funny kind of holiday. My guess would be that it originated from a secret conspiracy between Hallmark, Godiva and eHarmony.com, although that would mean Dr. Phil has been alive forever.
"And then, there's another kind of love: the cruelest kind. The one that almost kills its victims. It's called unrequited love." -- "The Holiday" For Charlie Brown, it was the Little Red-Haired Girl, for Don Quixote it was Dulcinea, and for Steve Urkel it was Laura Winslow.
My eyes open suddenly and harshly to reveal a strange and very bright world. Immediately I wonder, "Where am I?" A quick look around the room reveals I made it safely home.
Faustino VII Bodegas 2005 Price: 10.99 Grade: B Spain boasts some of the world's oldest wine regions.
Holidays are awesome because they go hand in hand with feasts: loud, raucous, crazy-Aunt-Phyllis-filled feasts.
As one of the youngest members of the organization Get on the Street, first-year College student Blair Dodson receives a lot of advice about internships in the finance industry -- including how difficult they are to find. "This is a hard industry to get into, especially with the markets right now, and I need to start as early as possible," she said. With help from GOTS, the search is a little less daunting.
It took me 1,254 days before I realized I love our University. Some people become enamored with our school before they even attend a class here, and perhaps others will cross the Lawn May 18 with nothing but a fleeting respect for the institution that is giving them a future.
