Most students will participate in a seminar during their college careers to fulfill their graduation requirements.
In August 2001, rhythm and blues superstar Mary J. Blige released the soulful classic, "No More Drama." About 6.5 million albums have been sold worldwide, earning triple-platinum status.
Have you ever been walking along, minding your own business and heard that familiar "hock puh" sound right beside you, and then looked to see a giant spit wad landing dangerously close to your shoes?
University coffee-addicts are faced with a difficult problem: where to find that perfect cup of java.
It's that time of year. The leaves are falling. The weather can't decide whether it wants to be 65 degrees and sunny or 45 degrees and miserable.
I don't know what real is. Is it that which is actually experienced or seen or known? This question gets really messy, really quickly. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, reality is "the state of things as they actually exist, as opposed to an idealistic or notional idea of them." But in light of the influence of mass media and networks that shape our views about what we might call reality, everything I know of current events is filtered through the scope of someone else, someone creating a "notional idea" of the state of things. So what is real? Contrary to popular - or more appropriately, pop cultural - belief, reality TV is not real.
A concrete paint-splattered floor, fancy light stands, camera equipment and cords crisscrossing across the ground - Dell 2 has become a renegade warehouse production of a full-fledged musical. The first full-length musical created for the primary purpose of being put online - the project of fourth-year College student Jeffrey Luppino-Esposito - has a cast of 32 members and a leadership and production team of 16 students.
If you've ever watched "How I Met Your Mother," it's likely that you're familiar with the word "lawyered." For those who haven't seen the show, the study guide version is as follows - Marshall, a lawyer, uses simple lawyer's logic to win an argument.
Ah, Sunday - the day most of my roommates and I have standing dates with homework and migrate to Clemons Library or Lambeth Commons by noon.
Brian Gomez, the second-year College student who passed away last month after a year-long battle with a rare form of cancer, told his girlfriend, Morgan Watts, a line that has stuck with her ever since, as the two of them waited in a hospital while her sister underwent open heart surgery. "Life is like no limit," he said.
I was going to write this column about how I have three papers due next Friday. It was going to be about how I'm foregoing the night life for the next week-and-a-half and buckling down and writing eloquent A-plus papers.
My latest search on Hulu: "Laguna Beach." Even though the show ended ages ago, I have to admit that I still firmly believe it was the best MTV show ever and that I'm still madly in love with Stephen and Talan.
College is supposed to prepare you for the real world. In theory, four years are supposed to give you an idea of what you want to do and where you want to do it.
The casualties of the recession are endless: General Motors, Chrysler, American International Group, Lehman Brothers, Bear Stearns, CIT Group, and the list goes on.
Last Thursday and Friday saw a number of events here at the University related to investing. The McIntire Investment Institute and the Women's Business Forum at McIntire hosted a panel discussion Thursday on Investing as a Career.
Did you ever want to be a life-saving firefighter growing up? A skirt-swirling ballerina? An adventurous treasure hunter?
I'm trying to decide at what point "real life" thought it would be fine to intrude on my time as a University student.
Daniel Fourth-year College Student Major: Biochemistry and biology What are you involved in at U.Va.? I'm senior resident of a first-year dorm, I'm on the women's basketball team as a scout player and I am a member of the Virginia Glee Club (taking a semester off from that currently though). What else do you like to do?
PDA - not that little handheld computer, the more controversial one. The one that occurs with dating, or not dating.
Since the passage of the Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act in 2009, there has been an even greater drive nationwide to increase volunteer turnout.
