I took one look at the pink ribbon-belt of Curtis Sittenfeld's "Prep" in bookstores last spring and cringed with the memory of so many shrieks and plaid kilts of my own prep school education.
"It was pitch black outside," second-year Engineering student Justin Starr said. The Amtrak train arrived late at night, after all, but as Starr explained, he was only five minutes away from the station stop in a major city. "It was surreal," he said, commenting on the darkness. A closer look revealed the cause: "If you really pressed your face to the windows, you could see rows and rows of houses ... all just abandoned," Starr said.
People who cry usually make me laugh. Two teammates and good friends of mine, Fiona F. and Rachel W., broke into tears when reminiscing about their time spent at the University.
The little AIM icon in the lower right hand corner of the laptop sometimes has a seemingly magnetic pull on the mouse.
Of all the scenarios in the world, I never thought I would be broken whilst wear-ing a bright yellow helmet that closely resembled the receptacle end of a banana-flavored condom. I was standing on a dusty street in Mexico, holding a "small" scooter that seemed to weigh at least three times as much as me.
Over break the University announced that it had been chosen to be the home port for the world-renowned Institute for Shipward Education's "Semester at Sea" program, to begin this summer.
Last week thousands of University students returned to Grounds for the start of the spring semester.
The winter holidays in Charlottesville offered brisk air full of cheer, a festively decorated Rotunda and plenty of work.
A new year can mean many new beginnings. First of all, there are the popular resolutions about how to have a better year in 2006.
Fourth-year College student CynthiaMangum traveled to Argentina in spring 2005 for a semester abroad and discovered something that compelled her to extend her stay through the summer.
Dating's not dead. It just got boring. This year, resolve to resuscitate your dating life -- and no, $2 pitchers doesn't count.
This is for anyone who happens to have the blahs right now. Because let me tell you, I'm there with you. I've been in a slump for a few days. You know, one of those inexplicable declines in self-confidence where the world just seems to be one step ahead. You seem incapable of having a normal conversation with anyone. You realize you forgot to button your fly about 25 minutes after walking out of the bathroom in Alderman. You find yourself telling friends a lot of stories that end with, "Well, I guess you had to be there." You go for a walk around our beautiful Grounds to clear your head only to find that Mad Bowl looks like the Verdun, circa 1916. You spend hours reading the Drudge Report's updates on a whale that wandered up the River Thames. And subsequently died. That poor little guy didn't stand a chance.
Each week for the past year, The Cavalier Daily has asked a student 25 questions, allowing him or her to eliminate five of them.
At Thomas Jefferson's University, it's hard to walk around Grounds without being reminded of his enduring presence. But Peter Onuf, a Thomas Jefferson Foundation Professor of History, is brought into contact with Jefferson more often than most.
I would imagine that for most University students, going home for Winter Break is not something that causes a great deal of anxiety.
Though the calendar is well into January and the weather has jumped forward to March, the holiday season is still on my mind.
As soon as I stepped into my classroom on the first teacher work day, teachers from down the hall told me about "this group of kids." Apparently, these fourth graders had been branded as one of the lowest achieving groups of kids and the worst behaved in several years.
Since Sept. 11, the government's efforts to enact regulations safeguarding the nation against future terrorist attacks while attempting to protect the privacy of American citizens has been a balancing act of national importance.
While most students were busy study-ing for finals or perhaps falling asleep in Clemons, a new CIO silently emerged.
I had a very good Christmas break, thanks for asking. Unfortunately, it seems that everyone had exactly the same Christmas break.
