Well, the end happened pretty much just as I thought it would. I emerged from that beautiful ship in San Diego Harbor, weighed down by the spoils of my journey, tearfully greeted by my mother, calling out promises that I would stay in touch with too many new friends.
The Bluegrass Grill does not play bluegrass. In fact, it lacks many of the essential charms of the home of bluegrass, Appalachia.
After spending a painstaking two hours shelling and blanching fava beans, it finally dawned on me why Americans are so afraid of the kitchen: The act of cooking, in today's frenzy of productivity, is in fact too laborious to manage.
Ever since I discovered Ten a few weeks ago while getting drinks with girlfriends, I have been dying to go back and engulf myself in the swanky metropolitan restaurant for a full meal.
I call it "linguistic naturalization." When I returned home after my whirlwind introduction to higher academia as a first-year student, I realized that many components of the lifestyle I took two semesters to familiarize myself with dissolved.
With the last day of classes coming up, students at the University have a lot to look forward to.
Meet Jo Watts. A little more than two weeks ago, the third-year English major was preparing to return to civilian life.
By Bailee Barfield Cavalier Daily Associate Editor With finals quickly approaching, students attempt to stuff back into their heads major works of literature and historical figures assigned in textbooks and mentioned in lectures.
To all of us who will soon be alumni of the University of Virginia, let's look back fondly on our time well spent. Remember the first time you streaked the Lawn.
I did not want to come to the University of Virginia. I had my heart set on another school, but I guess the universe works in mysterious ways.
When high school seniors pick up their #2 pencils and fill in that last bubble on the answer sheet for the SATs, they often breathe a sigh of relief, thinking they are done with standardized testing.
The wisdom tooth in the lower right corner of my mouth is bothering me. I don't know what's causing the pain or whether it will go away on its own, but it's making me rue the day that tooth reared its ugly enamel.
Mud sliding, exploding fire hydrants, a flaming car drenched in gasoline -- all this while the majority of the 10,000 person crowd was, let's say, "not in the right state of mind." In the 1960s and 70s, this was the annual tradition of Easters at the University. Easters has a long history, dating back just prior to the turn of the century.
As college students, our lives are largely dependent on our ability to communicate through electronic mail, or "e-mail" as it is known to modern hipsters.
With Nobel Laureate John Polanyi's speech about his life in the field of science falling only a few days after the Virginia Tech tragedy, it came as no surprise when he related the two topics. "Is there a relevance to this topic," Polanyi asked the audience, "and these events having to do with your friends at Virginia Tech?" Polanyi suggested that since science gives rise to technology, the two are related. "Technology provides these ready instruments that can create life and death," Polanyi said. He suggested that while guns and nuclear weapons can take many lives, penicillin and other types of medical technology make life possible at the same time. In his speech last Thursday, Polanyi, the recipient of the 1986 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his work in reaction theory, spoke to the University community in the Dome Room about his experience in the scientific community.
Born and raised in the "wide open spaces" of Minnesota, Education Prof. Jane Hansen said she has known what she has wanted to do since she was in second grade. "I remember the day when I came home and announced to my mom and dad that I was going to be a teacher," Hansen said. Now she is the teacher's teacher -- she teaches current and future teachers how to teach. "I am a professor in the reading program and what I do is teach writing for teachers," Hansen said.
I really use it far too often. It's gotten to the point where it intrudes on every portion of my life, even interfering with social activities.
As I sit here on the MV Explorer, awaiting our imminent departure from northeastern China (and to Japan in 2 days time), I am surrounded by drunk college students, senior citizens and young children, not to mention one of the more well-known Nobel Peace laureates.
When asked his opinion of college students today during his visit to the University April 12, Ralph Nader did not mince words. "This generation is redefining 'trivial,'" Nader said. Nader visited the University two weeks ago to give a presentation titled "While You Were Watching Big Brother, Big Brother Was Watching You: What Students Should Know, and What Students Can Do." In an interview before his presentation, the 73-year-old political activist spoke about what he sees as the problem with young people these days. "They have less and less knowledge of history, a smaller vocabulary, a shorter attention span and spend too much time looking at screens," Nader said.
For my last column of the year, I should comment and perhaps apologize for some minor mistakes I have made in my previous articles.
