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(04/23/13 9:07pm)
During my second year, I discovered the overlap between my two realms of study: writing and medicine. I distinctly remember writing a column called “The Poetics of Chemistry,” in which I talked about a project I’d done that harnessed the synergy between science and writing.
(04/10/13 1:15am)
Just about every fourth-year columnist in the free world has already written — or will soon write — something about being a fourth-year. Something about graduating. Something about moving into “the real world,” which I think is actually a misnomer, but that’s a story for another day.
(03/26/13 8:06pm)
This just in: while the late March snowfall would have you think otherwise, the semester’s coming to a close. It isn’t winter anymore. Birds are singing when it isn’t snowing — and sometimes when it is. If you’re a fourth-year, that means it’s almost time to roll out into the “real world” — which for some of us, admittedly, just means more school.
(03/06/13 1:29am)
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. I wrote in a column in February 2010 that I had held on to the severed bicycle pedal — the most portable relic of my accident, minus the fractures themselves — in a drawer in my dorm room.
(02/20/13 2:02am)
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. Unfortunately, my first column for the Cavalier Daily was actually written “More than three years ago but less than four,” and that statement doesn’t have as nice of a ring to it. That column was called My Fractured First Year — a name suggested by Anya, one of my first-year suitemates. I don’t live near Anya anymore, so recent column names have proven to be substantially less ingenious.
(11/02/11 5:26am)
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. students, but behaviors like these often lead to diagnosable eating disorders.
(09/12/11 6:06am)
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.
(08/26/11 4:00am)
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. Amid these inconveniences, however, the new Newcomb is gradually emerging. The building's massive overhaul began in May 2010 and is scheduled to progress through fall 2012.
(08/23/11 5:01am)
I feel old.
(04/29/11 4:00am)
This past Wednesday, I turned in my organic chemistry lab notebook.
(04/15/11 4:27am)
As a recently-declared Echols Interdisciplinary Writing major who also happens to be a premed, I frequently get puzzled looks when I tell people what I'm studying here at the University. Nearly everyone comments on the apparent disparity of my two fields of study, and while at first glance they might look completely different, I've found there's no shortage of overlap. Any premed advisor can tell you medical schools tend to encourage non-science majors - balancing pre-medical courses with a different major helps to shape well-rounded medical students.
(03/19/11 1:44am)
The stereotype of pre-med students is time tested and often true: the overscheduled, hyper-anxious student rushing to class, huddled over what looks like a small family of science textbooks at the library, compulsively checking grades, garnering glossy resume additions like a kid collecting baseball cards.
(03/15/11 6:10am)
Walk into a library and you'll see stacks of literary magazines. Go to the dining hall and you'll notice a flyer advertising an upcoming open mic night. Head to the bookstore and you'll find the shelves lined with professors' poetry collections.
(02/25/11 6:30am)
In a recent meeting with my pre-medical adviser, I heard what is likely the most apt characterization of the pre-medical concentration yet: It's a freight train.
(02/11/11 6:45am)
With the second semester of the second year of premed underway, the time has come to think ahead. Really, really ahead. After first year, the core premed courses - chemistry, biology, organic chemistry and physics - were halfway through. I'd taken biology and chemistry and their respective labs. That in itself felt like an accomplishment. It still felt as though there was time.
(01/28/11 5:00am)
Confidence is overrated.
(11/12/10 6:47am)
If you've ever watched "How I Met Your Mother," it's likely that you're familiar with the word "lawyered." For those who haven't seen the show, the study guide version is as follows - Marshall, a lawyer, uses simple lawyer's logic to win an argument. Upon his victory, Marshall responds with something like, "You've been lawyered!" or "Kaboom! You've been lawyered!" or some other variant of the phrase.
(10/29/10 4:51am)
At times, life as a pre-med begins to feel less like a course of study and more like a tightrope act. Between balancing the prerequisite courses, medical school requirements, extracurriculars and service activities, the pre-med lifestyle sometimes seems like a scavenger hunt for the components of a flawless r
(10/15/10 5:53am)
There's nothing quite like meeting University graduates in your own hometown. For some, this may be routine and normal, but for me, an impromptu run-in with a former Hoo is a welcome and unexpected rarity.
(10/01/10 5:11am)
We've been here for more than a month now. For many second-year student on the pre-medical track, that means we're knee deep in what is possibly the most stigmatized, feared and loathed course in the entirety of the colorful bouquet of our requisite science courses: organic chemistry.