When he's not working on his Ph.D. in Materials Science, graduate Engineering student Aarash Sofla spends almost every weekend hanging by a rope from a steep mountain.
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.
With the multitude of modern inventions such as iPods, Xboxes and portable DVD players, old-fashioned movie theaters have been losing popularity.
Wedding day: A day considered by many to be one of the most important of their lives. People envision this turning point in their lives as taking place in many different ways.
"Sabbatical." "On leave." "Semester off." These phrases often pop up in discussion about University professors taking breaks from teaching.
Of the multitudes of changes in society recently, hair color is one of the flashiest. It seems no one is satisfied.
According to several sources of celebrity gossip, "Desperate Housewives" star Eva Longoria recently demonstrated her love for her boyfriend, basketball player Tony Parker, by getting his initials inked in a private place.
Celebrities on television, in magazines and on billboards are easily recognized by the general public with a simple glance at their well-known faces.
According to a song by Good Charlotte, "Girls don't like boys, girls like cars and money." Such tunes -- and loads of others, like Kanye West's "Golddigger" and TLC's "No Scrubs," seem to convey an explicit message about what women look for in men: money, and lots of it.
