Like many University students, I thought not having a meal plan while living off-Grounds was a brilliant idea.
A loose strand of hair flutters in front of my eyes as a cool, crisp breeze blows softly. I stride quickly downtown, having adopted an admittedly self-righteous attitude toward my simple, eco-friendly Saturday morning ritual.
ATTENTION, UNIVERSITY AFFILIATES! In our ongoing effort to perpetually annoy and confuse our faculty, staff and student body, we here at ITC are pleased to announce, right here in this very humor column, the abolition of your current information warehouses, SIS and Collab and the subsequent advent of your brand-spanking new, totally incomprehensible information machine, DIE.
For many University students, homelessness may bring to mind images of bums on the Corner, but fourth-year College student Garrett Trent has a different perspective.
My family has had a backyard garden since I was in high school. Each summer, tomatoes, squash, cucumbers and peppers cover our kitchen counter tops; and each August, my family tries to send me back to school with bags stuffed full of fresh vegetables.
I went tubing down the James River this past weekend with my two roommates. Lying in an inner tube as it floats down the somewhat brackish James, while mildly appealing in its own right, is also on the list of 110 Things To Do Before You Graduate - and my roommates and I are on a mission to check off every single thing on that list by the end of this, our fourth and final year at the University. Although I originally balked at the $20 charged by the rafting company to rent us a tube and drive us to the launching spot, I remembered that the company's Web site promised a two- to four-hour float down the river that would "relax us completely." The chance for total relaxation was, ultimately, too tempting to pass up, and we grudgingly agreed to give up a bit more of our rapidly dwindling summer cash. Although we had been promised complete relaxation, the day's journey turned out to be anything but relaxing.
Most students use the Internet to access virtually every aspect of their daily lives: friends and family on Facebook, schoolwork on Collab, work schedules by e-mail.
Being back at school means we're back in classes, back in club meetings and back in the library. We've constantly got things going on, and it's easy to get overwhelmed by it all, but it's also easy to stay in control of - if you've got the right tools.
Although few people would describe a competition in which they "got destroyed on national television" as a highlight of their college careers, fourth-year College student Kadeem Cooper remembers the experience fondly. "I was an instant celebrity," he said of his recent experience on the game show "Jeopardy!" "People were calling me from high school that I hadn't talked to in years," Cooper said.
Regrettably, we live in an age of health obsession. The gym has replaced the bar as the place that professionals go after a long day of work.
Several weeks ago, I revisited my childhood by watching a rerun of Mary-Kate and Ashley's "Passport to Paris" with my 13-year-old sister.
U.Va., consider yourself safe for now - I'm spending the semester in New Zealand. Thanks to Wi-fi, Skype and the narcissistic jamboree known as Twitter, however, I can easily remain in touch.
I absolutely cannot believe that school has started again; this summer flew by even more quickly than the last and it feels so weird to be back. There are two new changes in my male-centric world since last semester.
The birds are chirping. The breeze is blowing. The streams are trickling. All is well in the Academical Village save for an aggressive fox reported in the University area, which I do trust our heavily-armed and well-trained University police will quickly catch, despite their ever busy routine of writing people tickets. While to some students, the first few weeks of school might seem like a good time to relax, that could not be farther from the truth.
Since its creation in 1787, the U.S. Constitution has been the subject of much praise for the way it lays the foundations of the U.S.
People say that fairy tales give kids unrealistic expectations about life. These tales are often accredited with creating fantastically idealized ideas about love - in a time when they say that more than half of all marriages end in divorce - and impossible standards of beauty - in an era when even the most glamorous celebrities get plastic surgery on a monthly basis.
When most people think of hotels, tall buildings with dozens of rooms and diligent wait staffs may come to mind.
How do you solve a problem like Miley Cyrus? Once known only for lip-syncing wholeheartedly to adolescents worldwide, this pop princess recently garnered attention for far more than her hit Disney show.
When Marisa Vrooman first tried a tree-ripened peach, "the taste blew [her] mind." Now acting as a local food advocate to preserve the "flavor, freshness and nutrition content" of what she eats, Vrooman works as the co-founder and director of farm services and development of the Local Food Hub, a non-profit organization with the goal of providing fresh, locally grown food to the Charlottesville community. Local Food Hub co-founder Kate Collier came up with the idea in January 2008, Vrooman said.
The soft serve vanilla ice cream at the pool somehow never tasted as good toward the end of the summer.
