The gauntlet of Grounds
By Aidan Cochrane | October 2, 2014Freed from the confines of dorms into the world of air-conditioned bedrooms, I am fortunate enough to spend my second year of college with an apartment as home.
Freed from the confines of dorms into the world of air-conditioned bedrooms, I am fortunate enough to spend my second year of college with an apartment as home.
People will tell you in love and in life that “reality’s not like the movies.” But that’s not exactly true -- it’s the movies that aren’t like reality.
The other night while playing frisbee in the dark ? in retrospect a poor idea ? I had a revelation.
My father’s good friend always says, “Nothing good ever happens past midnight.” I beg to differ.
There is nothing more satisfying to me than pouring my thoughts onto a page and molding the fragmented puddles into a reflecting pool in which people I've never met can get a clear view of themselves.Through writing, I achieve a high incomparable to the use of any recreational drug.
Three University graduates have launched a web-based food ordering service based in Charlottesville to compete with familiar names like GrubHub and OrderUp.
I’m sitting on a bus that I’m pretty sure is the North Line, praying that it’s going to drop me off anywhere at all close to New Cabell Hall within the half hour window that I’ve left myself to get to my next class, and there’s a guy hardcore staring at me from across the aisle.
CrisYear: FirstMajor: Pre-med Hometown: Alexandria U.Va.
Corks and Curls, the University’s yearbook founded in 1888, is returning to Grounds this year after having been discontinued in 2009.
Starting just this semester, the Hoos Got Your Back campaign has been working to raise awareness of their efforts to prevent gender-based violence both on and off Grounds.“The Hoos Got Your Back campaign is really a media and awareness campaign to let the University community know that there is no place for sexual misconduct,” said third-year College student, Sara Surface, external chair of the Sexual Violence Prevention Coalition.
Three weeks after arriving at the University of Colorado at Boulder in September of 2004, Lynn Gordon Bailey Jr.
My dad is the epitome of going with the flow.
“I love this song!” I shout over the howl of the wind as my best friend and I cruise down 14th Street.
Near the beginning of Vampire Weekend’s self-titled debut album, the singer asks a question that will no doubt echo through history, “Who gives a [crap] about the oxford comma?” I like this album, but the question has always felt like a personal assault since I am an English major.
As a thoroughbred Northeasterner, I am well acquainted with the seasons. I have learned to recognize and welcome these quarterly changes not only through the shifts in temperature, but also through societal signifiers – the presence of heavy coats around grounds, the changing colors of storefronts and interior decorations, or advertisers’ reminders that customers should update their seasonal wardrobes appropriately.
I gaze into the majestic evening horizon from the top of the Empire State building. Biting my lip, I peer down at the thousands of feet beneath me.
College Advising Seminars - known as COLAs - are intended to build student-faculty relationships starting during students first year. A few COLA professors from various departments have chosen food as the focus for their introductory courses.
Given that most of us have only begun experimenting with the wide range of beer options available, below is a comprehensive review of the most popular local beers.
This academic year, the Corner proudly boasts new energy in the form of 105 Grill & Pub, Kuma Sushi Noodles & Bar and Poe’s Public House.
By the time 2 a.m. rolls around on an average weekend night, restaurants on the Corner are packed with hungry University students in search of late-night eats.