Love connection

Eleanor Katz Year: Second School: College of Arts and Sciences Major: Spanish and Foreign Affairs Hometown: Bethesda, MD Sexual Orientation: Straight UVa Involvement and Activities: Madison House’s Migrant and Latino Aid, Jewish Leadership Council, Chi Omega’s Philanthropy (Make-A-Wish Foundation) Hobbies: I love to ski, cook, read and watch Spanish telenovelas Ideal Date Person (Physical Attributes [...]

A Day in the Life: TA Edition

How to write a column

Let me introduce you to most Life columns. This space is reserved for a witty and poignant statement. I personally like to use a lot of foreshadowing and be deliberately vague. It’s the hardest part of the column writing process, and today I welcome you, the reader, into this process. I won’t lie, I initially [...]

A sister’s love

As Valentine’s Day rapidly approaches, I can’t stop my slightly bitter, loveless self from gagging every time I see a heart-shaped, raspberry-filled anything. I have to restrain myself from mowing down pedestrians who are innocently holding hands with their significant others. For weeks I’ve been trying to devise a plan where I can just sleep through the [...]

Residential analysis

College life teaches you a special type of economic theory. No, it doesn’t have anything to do with subsidies or taxes. And don’t worry, there isn’t any advanced math involved. Today’s equation is a simple cost/benefit analysis — what’s it going to cost you to achieve a decent living situation? The most obvious way to answer this [...]

Virtual

YouTube. Megaupload. Wikipedia. Students use all of these sites instinctively, but the recently introduced Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) threatens to silence the same sites, which students look to for information. Computer Science Prof. Mark Sherriff explained the problems the act would pose for Internet content creators in a speech, hosted by the Jefferson Literary [...]

Get weird

Every once in a while, and by that I mean constantly, my roommate and I pick up catchphrases, which we overuse incorrectly and inappropriately. We say these things so often, our friends visibly wince when they see the wheels turning in our heads as we contemplate using one of these phrases. Relax, we’re not Elle [...]

Back to the basics

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. Because these discussions usually originate while raiding the kitchen, the field is often narrowed to what food we [...]

Real lady clothes

I have my first ever college internship lined up this semester. I don’t know how I managed to pull it off with basketball and my class schedule. I have to admit, it took some serious manipulating, so much, in fact, that I didn’t let myself believe it would happen until I actually met my boss. [...]

Love Connection

Glenn Hometown: Portsmouth, Va. Year: 2015 Major: Mechanical/Aerospace Engineering Sexual orientation: Straight University involvement: Intramural sports, Outdoors at U.Va. Hobbies: sports (playing and watching), cooking, piano Ideal date (person): Physically, she should have a cute and expressive face, be shorter than me and be relatively athletic/fit. Personality-wise, I would want her to be smart, funny, [...]