When you first hear Blake Shelton sing the opening lines of the ballad, "Who Are You When I'm Not Looking," it sounds a little creepy, almost as if the country music singer plans to spy on his girlfriend to see what she's up to when he is not around.
It's been a while since I offered my unsolicited advice on something, so I figured I was overdue. As a second-semester fourth year, I spend a lot of my time worrying about the hazy "next year." Where will I be?
Have you ever played that "what would you bring on a desert island" game? I have. I must have played it a million times as an icebreaker, but it's also a favorite late-night discussion among my friends.
"It's not what you know, it's who you know." I can't tell you how many times people have told me this during the past year.
In the last few years, cake baking has become everything from a fine art form to a spectator sport. Viewers have been mesmerized by the confectioners on popular shows like Food Network's "Ace of Cakes" and TLC's "Cake Boss." But these days University students have a chance to see the cake haute couture right here in Charlottesville.
There is a young woman I've had class with a few times during the last three years who is obviously very intelligent.
"Step on a crack, break your mother's back." I think I first heard this one sometime around first or second grade and not wanting to be responsible for fracturing my mother's spine, I avoided cracks wherever I walked for about two weeks.
It's hard to say exactly why I enjoy watching reality television - certainly not because it is high quality or bears any resemblance to anything that could be called art.
I had been saving some of the content of this column for my final column in this spring's graduation issue, but setting nostalgia aside, I think this week might be a more appropriate time to write about why working for The Cavalier Daily is unlike participation in any other student organization. First and foremost, The Cavalier Daily is not a contracted independent organization.
Not many students can say they have wrestled a stuffed squirrel while participating in their contracted independent organization, but for Hoos News writer Stephanie Boutsicaris, it was all in a day's work. The Hoos News Show is the University's only student-produced satirical news show.
