I honestly miss reading for pleasure once school begins. Every time I pick up a book or a magazine after classes resume, I suddenly feel guilty because I should be doing work.
Moving away from home and gaining new perspectives are experiences many first-year students expect. There are several additional challenges specific to about 5 percent of University students, however.
It's 4 p.m. on a Thursday in Valencia, and a suffocating typhoon of pressure is mercilessly beating down upon my battered body, swallowing it whole and not spitting it out until my soul has been completely sucked out and chucked into the Mediterranean.
We had been in Belfast for about eight hours. At that point, we only knew that we were staying at the Paddy's Palace hostel, which was colored green.
They may be their pals within the United Kingdom, but many English people have told me that it is considered acceptable to make fun of the Welsh.
Few people at the University know very much about Kathy McGruder, even though most students talk to her several times a week.
By a random scheduling chance this semester, I start class every day after 12 p.m., get out at 3:15 and walk home around 3:30 - exactly like I did in kindergarten.
There are the "profitable" majors - engineering, business, etc. - and then there are the "not so profitable" majors, which basically include anything in the humanities.
With the start of University-wide elections just around the corner, some students have spent the past few months working on various campaigns, either for themselves or their friends. During the week of Feb.
Injuries and hardships can be some of our greatest teachers. It may sound clich
The infamous holiday that drains the pockets of many men around the world has come and gone. You may be singing "That's Amore" by the charming Dean Martin, or perhaps Queen's "Another One Bites the Dust" is more appropriate.
Entering college is a difficult transition for everyone. A number of big fish from the small ponds of the world are transplanted to this moderately-sized estuary in the middle of Central Virginia, and, as any biology professor will tell you, there are simply not enough resources to go around. And so they must be rationed.
When you think about good restaurants in Charlottesville, chances are your mind jumps immediately to the Corner or Downtown Mall.
During the past few years, food preparation seems to have been reduced to mere numbers. The selling point no longer lies in the dish's unique blend of ingredients or impressive presentation but rather its ability to arise out of a small handful of ingredients in less time than it takes to place a telephone order for pizza delivery.
Maybe no one wants to read about a holiday once it has passed, but I want to share my Valentine's Day dinner experience.
For nearly a decade, The Oculus interdisciplinary research journal has been staffed and contributed to entirely by undergraduate University students.
I am hardly the poster girl for caffeine. Until this semester, I never liked coffee or tea, so - during the few occasions when I really needed that extra jolt - I just drank a soda.
Freezing temperatures, fresh classes and formal sorority recruitment marked the beginning of the spring semester for 794 first-year girls at the University. Within the week, many girls became members of Greek sisterhoods that will mark their social lives, and T-shirt collections, for the next four years. But what about the rushees who did not join a sorority? "While we hope that every woman who participates in Recruitment will find her ideal match, and we believe she is very likely to given the depth and breadth of our community, it ultimately is a personal decision as to whether or not a woman decides to join a chapter," said Chelsey Iaquinto, the Inter-Sorority Council's vice president for recruitment, in an e-mail. Although Iaquinto explained that it was uncommon for girls to withdraw from rush, many students do not go through with it or do not complete the process every year.
OK, Don Juan. So you've just finished up a marathon of bringing the fire and showing your lady that she's the flyest bird in the air on one of the most important and tell-tale holidays of the year.
