If you?re like me, nothing is more enjoyable than the Olympics. Every four years, you are suddenly free to drop everything and spend two weeks pretending you actually gave a crap about these sports all along.American sports fan during the Olympics: ?Ooh, go back, it?s gymnastics!
New faces are not the only change at the University this fall. When upperclass students return, they will be met by a new first-year class as well as by updates across Grounds.
First-years: Let me begin by commending your bravery. You have recently endured a difficult few days of saying goodbye to your friends and families back home, packing away your entire lives and arriving to a foreign place only to realize you don?t have air conditioning (unless you live in Kellogg, Woody or Cauthen, and if so, get prepared to hear a lot of your new friends whine).It is likely you brought a formidable array of belongings with you to Charlottesville.
What?s up, first-years. I?m the columnist who each week tackles the hard-hitting issues, such as which sorority T-shirt designs are, like, the most award-worthy, how to walk across campus without inspiring anyone to maim you, and which bathrooms around Grounds are the best to pee in.
"So, uh, is this the bordello?" Maybe I should have said it louder. But, you know, one tries to be discreet.
Recently, the University's Alumni Association hosted its annual Reunions Weekend: the ultimate chance for more than 4,000 devoted alumni to relive memories, catch up with old friends and tease their nostalgic whims by seeing how much things have really "changed" since their time as students. With the advent of computer technology, multifaceted diversity and architectural expansion, it seems that our predecessors would recognize hardly anything but Jefferson's own Rotunda.
The usual changing of the guard took place in spring 1979 for the Managing Board of The Cavalier Daily.
The world of dating is once again cradled in the arms of a carefree summer for those of us still digging our heels into the sands of education.
Life at the University can be complicated
While working as a volunteer coach for a Charlottesville soccer team, 2007 University graduate Clay Broga realized his younger players also needed coaching off the field.
I should clarify. My grades are fine, I am responsible with alcohol and I maximize my undergraduate experience every day (after all, I did just go to the last Second Year Series Dinner). I keep things in perspective and develop healthy attachments ... with the sole exception of Gmail and Alderman Café. My area of fault lies not in the gauge of my character or my intellectual tenacity, but that I, like many women before me, am a terrible packer.
I have yet to create a masterpiece, and my 19th birthday just passed in January, but I am not worried because I know that after graduating from U.Va.
In my very first column for The Cavalier Daily, I wrote about the time I fell down the stairs behind Bryan Hall and ripped a hole in my pants.
Investing in the stock market is now easier than ever. Inexpensive Internet-based brokers such as E*Trade, TD Ameritrade and Schwab allow you to trade stocks as quickly as you can type and double-click.
From 2002 to 2005, Delta, Northwest, United and USAir all filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
With the Foxfield Races right around the corner, University students tend to catch some form of horse racing fever this time of year, whether it be marveling at the athleticism of the horses or simply shooting a passing glance at the blur of movement on the other side of the cooler. Wouldn't it be nice to make Foxfield last a little longer?
The end of the semester is a time of reflection. You might be reflecting on nights of fun with friends, old flames or some of the information you will be tested on in a few days.
It rains every day in London. The locals hate Americans. The food is terrible. The city is so expensive. When I decided to study abroad in London, I didn't know what to expect.
It's a bleak Sunday morning in Charlottesville, and I, Erik A. Silk, am a bit scared. Yeah. I'm not so much scared of not having a future, whether or not I should be.
Last week I had the privilege of interviewing first-year Shane Valero about his experience thus far at the University.
