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By Courtney Hartnett | April 23, 2013During my second year, I discovered the overlap between my two realms of study: writing and medicine.
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During my second year, I discovered the overlap between my two realms of study: writing and medicine.
Just about every fourth-year columnist in the free world has already written — or will soon write — something about being a fourth-year.
This just in: while the late March snowfall would have you think otherwise, the semester’s coming to a close.
As the pain of the fractures from my biking accident eased throughout the spring semester of my first year, I retained a healthy fear of moving vehicles.
It would be fantastic to be able to start off a column by saying, “Three years ago today, I wrote my first column for the Cavalier Daily.” Coincidences and anniversaries are always good ways to start anew.
Do you ever count calories? How about counting the calories you burn on the elliptical? Compulsive dieting, excessive exercise and poor body image may feel like just a darker side of the college experience for many U.Va.
For premed students - and, come to think of it, just about everyone else at the University - there seems to be an art to staying ahead of the cresting tsunami of work, classes and time commitments that befalls us after the first week of classes. Every year, I arrive on Grounds with the deluded belief that, this semester, I will have more free time.
Students spent last year frustrated at the ubiquitous construction zones surrounding Newcomb inside and outside, and they returned to familiar-looking plywood barriers and newly blocked off areas.
I feel old. As a first year, I remember envisioning a great divide between students, a gaping chasm between my fresh-out-of-high-school na
This past Wednesday, I turned in my organic chemistry lab notebook. I realize that something as mundane as carrying a notebook across Grounds and putting it in a box at the Chemistry Building isn't particularly newsworthy; it's more symbolic than anything. When I was a first year nearly done with general chemistry and introduction biology, I was more scared of organic chemistry than I was about my final exam in either course. I saw the look that crept over most people's faces when I asked about it.
