Life

Life

Parlez-vous Francais?

By Valerie Clemens | September 24, 2012

In recent years I’ve solidified my response to the question: “Do you speak French?” I respond: “Sure, I speak conversationally, but I probably couldn’t talk confidently about (insert extremely political or historical fact here),” for example, seventh-century Babylonian advances in astronomy. Although it’s questionable I could even have that particular conversation in English, the point is that my French vocabulary does not exceed that of a fourth-grader.

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Life

Ask Edgar

By Edgar A. Poe | September 20, 2012

Dear Edgar, I’m a third year in the Commerce School. It’s everything I hoped it would be except for one big problem.

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Life

Corner welcomes a slice of Crozet

By Sarah Gowon | September 19, 2012

Early this summer, the beloved restaurant and bar on Elliewood Avenue, The Backyard, closed its doors without an explanation.

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Life

Nothing collapses

By Connelly Hardaway | September 19, 2012

I walk into my sister’s room on a Sunday morning. She’s left for work in her Redskins t-shirt and baseball cap, jeans and blue tennis shoes.

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Life

Something to wine about

By Abbi Sigler | September 19, 2012

In many ways, a 21st birthday is a rite of passage into a new world. You can get a horizontal license, you can show the bouncer your actual I.D.

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Life

OpenGrounds, Broad Opportunities

By Justine Broecker | September 18, 2012

If you entered OpenGrounds last Friday, you would have found a master class of musicians sitting around a table assisting a young composer with her new piece.

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Life

What they don’t tell you about dorm life

By Julia Horowitz | September 18, 2012

There are some things they don’t tell you about dorm life. They tell you you’ll have to adjust to living with someone unlike you.

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Life

Letting myself go

By Simone Egwu | September 18, 2012

For some people, fourth year is their chance to show off. That’s cool, guys. I get it. You don’t have anything else to worry about, you’re coasting, you have time to pick out what you want to wear.

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Life

Going off Grounds

By Anne-Marie Albracht | September 18, 2012

Being back this fall has led me to realize I have a case of Peter Pan syndrome. If there were a Neverland for college students I — along with every frat boy — would definitely be there.

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Sex & Relationships

Love Connection: Taylor and Anna

By Mai Le | September 13, 2012

Date: Saturday, Sept. 8 Time: 7 p.m. Place: Café Europa Name: Taylor Year: Fourth School: Engineering Major: Chemical Engineering University involvements: Volunteer firefighting, AICHE Alumni and Corporate Relations Chair, Sailing Club, honorably discharged UTS bus driver, Hereford Student Senate Hobbies: I spend a lot of time at the fire station.

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Life

A bite of Sichuan on the Corner

By Sunny Peng | September 12, 2012

New Corner dining option Ginkgo had an official opening ceremony last week, treating their guests to authentic Sichuan food.

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Life

A football fantasy

By Emily Churchill | September 12, 2012

Growing up, I considered myself a regular tomboy. Looking back, I suppose this was mostly attributable to the one miserable afternoon I spent watching NASCAR with my dad and the plethora of worn jerseys passed down from my cousin. With this warped self-image came a lot of false confidence in areas that I cannot claim to have any real knowledge.

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Life

Maisie the Lazy Bird

By Mary Scott Hardaway | September 12, 2012

I have a nickname from childhood, coined and used solely by my immediate family. I’ve probably mentioned it before: Maisie.

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Life

Chatting with History Prof. Brian Balogh

By Sheila Bushman | September 10, 2012

Cavalier Daily: Tell me about yourself. Professor Balogh: I was born in Coral Gables, Florida. I still root for the Miami Hurricanes, and I also root for U.Va., even when they play the Miami Hurricanes.

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Life

Here comes the bride

By Elizabeth Stonehill | September 10, 2012

To continue the trend of masking my own life crises as journalistic endeavors, I decided to write about my experiences attending a wedding this weekend.

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Life

25 things I wish I knew as a first-year

By Katie Urban | September 10, 2012

Dear Class of 2016, Some of you reading this column are already in love with college, Grounds and all things U.Va.

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Life

Ask Edgar

By Edgar A. Poe | September 7, 2012

Edgar A. Poe offers amateur advice to those quintessential college problems which University students face. This week: homesickness, extracurricular overdrive and a one-night stand.

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Life

Ball so hard: University tailgates dwarf game action

By Abbi Sigler | September 5, 2012

Much to the dismay of my father and grandfather, I don’t know a whole lot about football. If I did, you’d probably be reading about this in the sports section.

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Life

U.Va. hits Wall Street

By Kristin Ulmer | September 5, 2012

Most college students look forward to summer vacation as a chance to escape from the stress of school, but as fourth-year Commerce students headed to work on Wall Street this summer, they knew they had their work cut out for them. Working as interns in the sales and trading sector of the financial market, fourth-year Commerce students Andrew Colberg and Jake Davies woke before the sun rose so they could be in the office at 5:30 a.m., before the markets opened.

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Life

Having it Worse

By Connelly Hardaway | September 5, 2012

I was in Europe this summer. I could tell you what I learned at the Tate Modern, what I realized in Normandy, what I came to understand on the Underground.