The enthusiasm games
Unless you’ve been living under a very isolated rock — perhaps in “uninhabitable” District 13 — you probably know The Hunger Games premiered this weekend. Facebook, Twitter and other social networking sites lit up with people preparing for opening weekend. Personally, I haven’t seen the movie yet, but I know many people who were excited enough to [...]
Read moreLate-night shifts
While most students are hanging out in their apartments, studying in Alderman, or out on the Corner into the early hours of the morning, there are a number of students working the late-night shifts of their jobs. Second-year College student Elissa Trieu initially began volunteering as an emergency medical technician for the Charlottesville-Albemarle Rescue Squad [...]
Read moreWahoowa
Along with hundreds of high school seniors, my pseudo little sister is coming to visit this weekend to decide if she wants to call U.Va. home for the next four years. She’s already received several admission offers at schools which would be lucky to have her, but I have 48 hours to convince her U.Va. is the [...]
Read moreBuyer beware
I have a confession to make. Like all of us, I have some guilty pleasures. They include, but are not limited to: Comfort shopping (similar to comfort eating, but with a far greater likelihood of upsetting your parents); satirical animation à la “Family Guy”; and white chocolate. Recently, however, a new pleasure has entered the mix. All [...]
Read moreCharlottesville: Beer City
Throughout the years, the City of Charlottesville’s main claim to fame has been the University. More recently, however, Charlottesville has been recognized as a great place to raise a family, to retire and to practise environmental sustainability. Now the City can add another selling point to its already impressive list — it is a great [...]
Read moreAttitude adjustment
I didn’t have high hopes for coming to school here. I thought I could get a good education at a fairly well-known school close to home and be out in four years. I looked at U.Va., saw the stereotype, and blindly decided it wasn’t for me. But I have found the farther into life I travel, the more [...]
Read moreApple’s next big move
When Steve Jobs returned to Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) as CEO in 1997 the company was on the verge of collapse. The firm had lost the edge it previously held over its competitors and was struggling to create new products. Steve Jobs then went on to become the innovator who would carry the company to incredible success, creating [...]
Read moreGlobal Studies
For many international students, excitement about studying abroad offsets a difficult adjustment to U.S. culture. In many foreign countries, U.S. colleges appear attractive because of their academic rigor and opportunities to join clubs and take a wide variety of classes. First-year College student Yash Agarwal, who is from Mumbai, India, said colleges near his hometown [...]
Read moreAlarming observations
Recently, I have found myself in a territory which threatens more souls than a dementor’s kiss and more livers than a fourth-year fifth. It is the land of all things evil: the land of ice-breaker activities. One question which continually pops up during these sadistic experiments is: “Why do you get up in the morning?” Someone inevitably [...]
Read moreJust say yes
You know it’s the month after Spring Break when you get no work done because you’re too busy looking through photos of 800 of your closest friends in exotic places. And you definitely know it’s soon after Spring Break when half of those albums are entitled “YOLO” or “you only live once,” mine included. While I understand [...]
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