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Max Hall and Austin Jones, rising juniors at Old Dominion University, have brought their new textbook exchange website, CampusWise, to the University this fall.
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CampusWise launches at the University

This fall, Max Hall and Austin Jones, rising juniors at Old Dominion University (ODU) will launch CollegeWise at the University — a new textbook service allowing students to buy and sell from one another directly and make payments online.


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Am I an adult now?

I remember being a child, before the days of driving or drinking, and somehow bringing fun to the most random or boring situations.


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Workplace envy

Yesterday, while in the middle of a frustrated rant about much I disliked a coworker, I realized I had absolutely no reason to hate her.


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Knowing the distance

Undoubtedly, I was glad to be able to talk to people who knew the situation at hand, but never before had the distance between us been highlighted so prominently.


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Mid-week motivation

Every week it comes around again — a time when we’re cranky, half asleep and exhausted from the first half of the week, yet still torturously far from a weekend respite. We call this lull in our weeks “Wednesday,” and it becomes an excuse for bad moods, extra cookies at lunch and earlier-than-usual bed times.


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Organic orientation

I first heard the term “Life Graphs” during a summer-job-related, getting-to-know-you spiel. It sounds cynical — and potentially stonewallish — of me, but my initial thought was “No, hell no.” Hard pass, no way, I won’t, can’t make me.


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The Father’s Day conundrum

Recently, children all across the U.S. flocked to local card stores, desperately searching for the perfect Hallmark-concocted one-liner to say, “I love you, Dad.” The trouble with entering that isle of brightly colored rhymes and bedazzled hearts, I realized, is that Hallmark charges up to eight bucks per card, and this year I had to buy two.


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The commuter train

My heels click across the pavement of Golden’s Bridge train station. I throw my car keys in my briefcase just in time to hear the horn of the 7 a.m. express, which is thundering down track one. 


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Living in the layover

Before leaving school for summer, a friend of mine was on a new kick: giving cheese-tastic motivational speeches to her roommates to start off the morning. 


Tori Travers explores a graveyard in Scotland at the age of five.
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Exploring your own backyard

I was merely unable to think of a weird quirk which would elicit equally entertaining reactions from my fellow breakers-of-the-ice. That is, until now.


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Going back home

Charlottesville is fun. The restaurants are amazing, the people all seem to click and, most importantly, the entire town doesn’t lock up and go to sleep at 8 p.m. The same can’t be said for the suburban town I have been exiled to. As soon as it gets dark, it becomes a ghost town — cue tumbleweed.


Rising fourth-year College student Elizabeth Duffield conducts summer research on sustainable tourism development in Fortaleza, Brazil.
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Pursuing an academic passion

Rising fourth-year College students Grace Finley, Elizabeth Duffield and Emma Kitchen are using the summer months to further their academic pursuits with University-funded research projects.


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The theater of life

There’s a life hack I like to call the “theater of life." It provides entertainment and insight during boring classes, long car rides and awkward family dinners.


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Back in the ‘burbs

You, beloved readers, have worked hard this year. Treat yo’self, and give the ‘burbs some credit for helping you do just that.


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Since the Contemplative Commons opening April 4, the building has hosted events for the University community. Sam Cole, Commons’ Assistant Director of Student Engagement, discusses how the Contemplative Sciences Center is molding itself to meet students’ needs and provide a wide range of opportunities for students to discover contemplative practices that can help them thrive at the University.