If there's anything we Wahoos love even more than dressing up, honor and ice milk, it's studying abroad.
Oh, football game days. The wonderful time of the year when we file into parking lots, eat barbecue, drink and -- if the weather is inviting enough -- attend a football game.
Can you believe that college actually has to end at some point? Nobody forwarded me that memo. My impression was that you'd graduate from high school and then go off to college until you die.
While some Virginia football team supporters were stocking their coolers or looking for their pearls Friday night, others were gathered at the Downtown Mall for Paint the Town Orange,? an event that gave Virginia football fans a chance to celebrate the kickoff of the home football season. Paint the Town Orange offered something for every Cavaliers fan.
While spending my semester abroad in Valencia, Spain, I found that the University became my golden haven, representing all that is good and pure in the world.
Every incoming class admitted to the University is declared more diverse than the last, but some forget diversity describes more than race or gender alone.
In 2004, the movie "Sideways" was released, receiving critical acclaim, box office success and, eventually, five Oscar nominations.
It's a downtown mainstay, and even if you don't remember having seen it before, trust me, you have. It's Downtown Thai, Charlottesville's best-known Thai restaurant, located on Water Street.
Although Labor Day is often pegged as the official end of summer, the characteristic mugginess continues long enough to still merit trips to the pool and dinnertime grilling well into September.
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A week before his classmates would make their first awkward acquaintances on Grounds, first-year College student Blair Burnett had already eaten, slept and commiserated with dozens of new friends and performed half-naked on stage to raucous applause. The Cavalier Marching Band held its annual band camp for a week last month in Charlottesville, spending seven sweltering hours a day mastering the complicated choreography and familiar songs that thrill the Sea of Orange every football season. More than 220 band members trekked to the turf of Carr's Field every morning, drill books in hand and drill position number memorized.
My life changed dramatically after I turned 21 last week. Having never tasted alcohol before I became legal, my first few sips hit me like a ton of bricks.
In the world of sportswear, there are two kinds of shoes. The first kind includes the pricey, highly regarded Nikes, Adidas and Reeboks.
I casually walk into Student Health and approach the receptionist. Me: Hi, ma'am! I'm here to see a qualified medical practitioner regarding my damaged anterior cruciate ligament.
Besides McDonalds, there are more gyms than any other building in the world. This is because old people are always building gyms so as to have quiet and accepting places in which they can walk around naked.
One thing I love about this University is that we are an adventurous bunch of Wahoos. Many of our peers have just returned home jet-lagged but smiling after studing abroad or just plain exporing in Europe, Asia or South America.
Diane Lee, a 2005 graduate of the University, finds herself as one of few females in the field of engineering.
As a prospective English major, I'm not sure what I want to do after graduation. Sometimes I think about becoming a journalist, traveling around the globe following leads and interviewing interesting people.
As a new school year begins, it's easy for upperclassmen at the University to pick on incoming first-year students for their bright-eyed optimism, ability to get lost regardless of where they are or where they're going and, most importantly, their ever-so-obvious desperation to make friends.
As a sleep-deprived college student, only the most incredible of circumstances would prompt me to give up precious sleep over the summer.
