Student Views

Life

Learning to speak Greek

By Julia Horowitz | January 28, 2013

I really wish I could think of something non-Greek to write about. I can feel myself slowly becoming Cady Heron from “Mean Girls” — except instead of constantly word-vomiting about how if Regina George cut off her hair she’d look like a British man, I can’t shut up about how I don’t need to cut off all my hair because my new sisters introduced me to “hot curlers” and it’s going to change my entire frizzy life.

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Life

Homeward Bound, Bound to Home

By Simone Egwu | January 28, 2013

Like many of us, I was so ready to leave my hometown when I graduated high school. I couldn’t wait to go somewhere where nobody knew me and take the opportunity to start over completely.

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Life

The road goes ever on...

By Emily Churchill | January 23, 2013

I recently read a quote by the intrepid explorer Richard Francis Burton that struck me: “One of the gladdest moments of human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands.

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Life

The stranger in my home

By Mary Scott Hardaway | January 22, 2013

Standing in the middle of my living room on a Saturday morning, I realized that I had just lost something very important.

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Life

Moving forward

By Valerie Clemens | January 21, 2013

The remnants of the person I became studying abroad are permeating my life back in Charlottesville, and I’ve never been so excited.

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Life

Opportunity cost

By Elizabeth Stonehill | January 21, 2013

If there is one valuable thing about second semester fourth year — besides being able to fill an entire Mellow Mushroom pint night card in one sitting — it is the opportunity for reflection.

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Life

I hate driving in Charlottesville

By Katie Urban | January 21, 2013

Charlottesville is known for a lot of things: U.Va., of course; all things Thomas Jefferson; Bodo’s — once I met someone in New York City who named their dog after Bodo’s because it’s that good — and a lot of preppy clothing.

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Life

Looking back

By Al-Hassan Koroma | January 16, 2013

As I was sitting on my Amtrak train back down to Charlottesville this weekend, I started thinking about how quickly the fall went by.

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Life

Never too old

By Connelly Hardaway | January 16, 2013

I believe that most people have a moral compass. Priests have gods. Cops have laws. Protesters have passions.

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Life

School is cool

By Abbi Sigler | January 16, 2013

I guess you could say a lot has changed in four short years. I went to a relatively small high school, where all of my teachers knew everything about me.

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Life

Winter breaking goals

By Simone Egwu | January 14, 2013

For me, winter break has always been about goal-setting. Without the pressure of class and with nothing to worry about but basketball, winter break is the ideal time to better myself.

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Life

A rush survival guide

By Anne-Marie Albracht | January 14, 2013

Dear potential new members, this week’s column goes out to you. Keep on rushin’ on. The “how to” of rush is that there is no how to.

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Life

My resolutions for 2013

By Julia Horowitz | January 14, 2013

Word on the street is it’s 2013. What does that look like? So far, a lot like 2003. Destiny’s Child is back together, Justin Timberlake is putting out a new album and, I swear on Lizzie McGuire, I haven’t seen this many Razor scooters since I crimped my hair.

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Life

Roses in December

By Mary Scott Hardaway | December 4, 2012

“Alright Mary Scott, but what’s your favorite?” “Peach! I think I’ll have to say peach.” “Then peach it is!” My young and bubbly bartender-in-training opened up her notebook and carefully wrote down, in delicate and curving handwriting, a few peachy drink recipes — recipes she would refer to later that evening when she took up her new post behind the bar.

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Life

Finals finale

By Emily Churchill | December 4, 2012

Ah, that faint smell in the air. That hard edge on the corner of your mind. That growing feeling pushing down on you when you sit.

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Life

A family affair

By Elizabeth Stonehill | December 4, 2012

In my last six years as a Facebook user — yes, that is my subtle way of saying: “I had this in 2006 when I was a freshman in high school.

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Life

Good old friends

By Katie Urban | December 3, 2012

Three weeks ago I turned 22, and in the three weeks before and after my birthday I saw my high school friends more than in the past three years combined.

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Life

When money does buy happiness

By Valerie Clemens | December 3, 2012

Before I came to Europe for the semester, I used to think it was silly when people said they couldn’t study abroad because it was too expensive.

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Life

Say anything

By Sarah Bingol | December 3, 2012

On Halloween, one of my best friends was drugged at a party at a fraternity’s satellite house. She told me about it the next day after a morning visit to Student Health, feeling scared, confused and alone.

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Life

Scar stories

By Connelly Hardaway | November 27, 2012

“Your arm looks gross,” my sister said, acknowledging the hot oil burns on my left forearm. “You could write about cooking in your column.