Veering Off Course
By Abigail Coster | March 20, 2009When you start college, every adult tells you to ?follow your passions.? I remember this clich
When you start college, every adult tells you to ?follow your passions.? I remember this clich
Flipping omelets and juggling potato cakes over the stove, Martha?s Caf
It sounds suspiciously like an episode of ?Dr. Phil,? during which an unhappy girlfriend discovers the healing powers of Ben & Jerry?s.
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner revealed the Obama administration?s long-awaited economic rescue plan Feb.
Human history is as much a product of forgetting as it is of remembering.
As I write this column, there?s a Beethoven piano trio playing all around me.
There is a city where rolling green hills stretch endlessly and small villages are in abundance.
When does it snow in March in Virginia? The most inopportune time, of course ? the day that I?m supposed to leave for Peru.
A sangoma is the name for a traditional Zulu healer. Sangomas heal people by communicating with their ancestors and by offering you muthi, which is a concoction of traditional herbs.
Looking back, middle school was filled with days spent memorizing explorers and their discovered sailing routes.
Ben, Second-year College studentMajor?UndeclaredSexual Orientation?StraightWhat extracurriculars do you participate in?Sigma Chi Fraternity, Intramural Sports, Habitat for HumanityWhat do you like to do in your free time?Golfing, Road Tripping, SpelunkingWhat are the physical and personality attributes you are looking for in a date?Smart enough to understand my jokes (but not smart enough to trick me), outgoing, spontaneous.
As I navigate through the muddled waters of U.Va. dating culture, I find that a lot of the guys here have the same sorts of awful afflictions.
It?s March, and that can only mean one thing: Women?s History Month.
President Obama signed a spending bill Wednesday that earmarked $285,000 for the Center for Politics? Youth Leadership Initiative.Former Rep.
?I have a very limited vocabulary,? second-year Engineering student Chris Vaccarello said.
Jobs are fairly important, and they are especially hard to come by in this economy of doom that our nation has entered.
I?m done with this place. I?m sick of having to cancel my own classes to watch ?Summer Heights High?* on YouTube all day long.
The McIntire Department of Music is celebrating a ?Year of Jazz,? featuring performances throughout the semester designed to heighten awareness of the musical style at the University.
When the last suitcase left my apartment the first Saturday morning of Spring Break, despite my staying put, I felt freer.
Ask a senior citizen about the corruption of our generation, and he or she probably will rant for an hour about promiscuity, an addiction to technology and offensive rap lyrics.