Before I left for college, I received my fill of well-meaning adages. People told me to work hard, play hard; stay up on schoolwork; prepare for the underwhelming dining hall food.
There is no doubt a degree from the University can open up countless doors to places beyond Grounds.
I was reading a book this summer and from all of it, one line stuck clearly with me: “Yes, everyone else thinks they are just as special as you do.”
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Nearing finals week last spring, I was chugging three to four cups of coffee every few hours to function each day and stay awake until the birds began to chirp as I waked from Clemons to my dorm.
If someone were to say to you, “I’m disturbed, I’m depressed, I’m inadequate, I got it all”, your first inclination would certainly not be to laugh.
The deafening silence of Alderman Library was only momentarily interrupted by the ruffle of pages or a singular cough people let out here and there.
Last Monday, I found myself once again in tears, standing in a driveway, unable to take back the damage my 2000 Chevy Suburban had caused.
“Athena, come on, we’re at the front of the line,” my friends complained while I was scrambling to find the nearest exit.
Students around Grounds aren’t just anxious about midterms this week. Although this semester is barely a month underway, the frantic struggle to finalize housing plans for next year is already in full swing. “I don’t know what to do, I don’t know how to sign a lease, I don’t even know how to look for an apartment,” first-year College student Joie Asuquo said. First years often feel like they’re left to fend for themselves when it comes to securing housing for their second year at the University, whether it is on grounds of off.
As lease-signing season is upon us, many students get a taste of one of the most important rite of passages of adulthood.
1. Playing chicken with your dirty dishes This is the number one worst thing to do as a roommate.
“Hey girl! How was your French test?” I greeted my friend, running into her on Central Grounds.
A warm breeze blew across the mountain top, as college students and families sat on picnic blankets, laughing in the sunset with wine glasses in hand.
University students engaged in Hazing Prevention Week — spanning Sept. 19-23 — aiming to bring to light the harmful behavior of hazing.
1. Roll in late This really shouldn’t need to be said and yet, there are always those who show up twitchy, sweaty and 10 minutes late.
The money raised through hosting grilled cheese sandwich “delis” every other Sunday outside of Clemons Library goes toward the CIO’s four partner organizations — CHOICE Humanitarian, Water for People, The Hunger Project and Pachamama Alliance.
Mallory and Dominick met on Friday at 6:00 p.m. and went to Lemongrass.
The Charlottesville Vegetarian Festival celebrated its 20th anniversary on Saturday, September 24, 2016 at IX Art Park.
A great friend of mine from high school recently set off to spend two years overseas serving in London as a Mormon missionary.
