Two years ago if you would have run into me eating dinner at Runk or reading after class in Clark Hall and you asked me how I liked college so far, I would have gushed about how much I love it and how it was so much better than high school.
"What goes up must come down" is an everyday expression which explains the statistical concept, reversion to the mean.
Participants in the University's African Music and Dance Ensemble have an opportunity to take part in a class not bound by the constraints of convention, but which hinges instead on students' participation, and calls for them to intuitively find their own way through the course material. "African Music and Dance class" is a practical, hands-on course which focuses on performing music from the cultures of the BaAka people of Central Africa and the Ewe people of Ghana and Togo.
As I lethargically walked down Rugby Road to get to my first class in Wilson Hall, several people passed me at a sprinter-like pace.
At least once a year I feel the need to start a column with, "I have a confession to make..." So here's mine for fourth year. I have a confession to make, despite my seemingly cool demeanor and air of general chillness, I can be a little high strung.
Date: Friday, September 2 Time: 7 p.m. Location: Sakura
I am never completely here nor there. In late winter, I migrate south. In late spring, I migrate north.
College applications are hard. They are especially difficult if you have had a good life and are decent at school and nothing dramatically noteworthy has ever gone wrong for you or those you love. When I hear stories about other people's college essays, and their resultant immediate acceptances to Ivy League schools, I am always slightly jealous.
There are a number of volunteer opportunities available to University students interested in learning more about medicine, but few of those offer the accompanying global perspective that can be gained by hands-on participation.
Writer's block. Starting a paper or column always poses the biggest challenge to writers. So they often begin with concise independent clauses to appear profound or rebellious.
I always have dreams. Some people retort: "But of course! Humans dream every night." Yeah, well, I dream more.
Did you know the University's women's club polo team made it to the national championship finals? Or that the men's club polo team is the 2011 national champion? Although these teams often fly below the radar, the sport is starting to gain a devoted fan base at the University. Founded in the early 1950s, the University's polo team is unique in more than one way.
How early is too early? I was overanalyzing and my hands began to shake when I pulled into the parking lot on the first day of my marketing internship.
For me, the first day of school is exhilarating. In April, I painstakingly debate which classes to take.
For many students, the call of the open road often remains just that, a call. But for fourth-year College students Margaret Montague and Abigail Lee, the dream of a cross-country road trip became a reality this summer. Last spring, Montague and Lee were awarded the Ingrassia Family Echols Scholars Research Grant, which provides funding for students to conduct a research project in a field of their interest. Typically recipients are students who put the research funding toward their fourth-year capstone project
As you may have noticed from past columns, I am an avid people watcher. It's one of my favorite pastimes.
A lot of people discover a lot of things at Beach Week. Fashion is not usually one of them, but this was the week I discovered what my wardrobe had been missing.
"Grapes don't grow in ugly places." So says the mantra of Afton Mountain Vineyards, and looking out over the valley, I couldn't disagree.
Fall is the season of love. Tempestuous, heart-wrenching; not the stuff of greeting cards but the stuff of sordid premium cable miniseries.
You're tired of watching tour guides struggle to walk backward. You're tired of hearing tour guides rattle off how many things they have run into by walking backward: lamp posts, bikes, parking meters, flagpoles, staircase railings, campus statues, people, etc.
