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Life

Before they were professors

It's a Monday morning, and you're sitting in class waiting for the lecture to begin. For 50 minutes or so, you take notes, trying to take in what the professor is saying. But while you sit typing away in that crowded lecture hall listening several times a week to that person talk about existentialism or human anatomy, have you ever wondered how the person got to be where he or she is?


Life

Dating on the cheap

For many, college is a time full of hunting for the next free meal and waiting for the first of the month, when that monthly parental check will finally rescue your bank account from the depths of brokedom.


Life

DisOrderly

The summer between my freshman and sophomore years of high school, I worked as an operating room orderly at a hospital.


Life

Project contraceptives

Going home for fall break this weekend, I was confronted with a plethora of questions about school and adjusting to college life.


Life

Drive me wild

A bus stops on McCormick Road, and students board. One is reading a newspaper, some are talking animatedly on their cells and several look like they just sleepwalked out of an 8 a.m.


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Encounters

Man, I really want to get to my next class. I like going to class a lot. I can impress the people next to me with my crossword-solving abilities Monday and my jumble-solving abilities most other days!


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Compromises

I had a pet fish once. He was grumpy and boring. He swam around his bowl all day, probably reciting Plato or Aristotle to himself.


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The countdown to a good first impression

The first date, for many, can mean the difference between fireworks and the fate of a Thanksgiving turkey, between true love's first kiss and getting shot down by last semester's TA, between deodorant and Vaseline.


Life

From advisees to advisors

Transitioning into college life can be tough. For those who need a friend, tutor or advice about classes, the Office of African-American Affairs offers the Peer Advisor Mentoring Program for incoming black first-year and transfer students.


Life

Lights From Above

In your tenure at the University, you have no fewer than 60 opportunities to soak in the last particles of dust scrubbed from bodies that fixed the stars. You can do it every other Friday, beginning an hour after sunset.


Life

LA VIE EN GROUNDS

Your neighbor to the left is crunching on an egg roll and eying a thick wedge of cherry pie. Stephanie is talking about who got drunk last weekend, and how drunk, and Alexandre is correcting everyone's grammar.


Life

The Woodbridge albatross

Woodbridge Cabernet Sauvignon, 2005 (Calif.) Price: $7 Grade: D Woodbridge is the wine most likely to be found at a public event.


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Does your meat make the grade?

I may have railed about the horrors of saturated and trans fats in processed foods in my last column, but I'm flipping to the other side this week to discuss a topic plentiful in saturated fats -- cuts of meat.


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Veggie Tales

Featuring exhibitors and food vendors, the 11th annual Charlottesville Vegetarian Festival was held Saturday in Lee Park.


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Recipes

Corn & Black Bean Salsa Makes: 5 servings You will need: large bowl Ingredients 1 15 oz. can corn, drained 1 8 oz.


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Riddle me this, interviewee

Each school year, the thoughts on the minds of many upperclassmen are about getting an internship for the summer or a full-time job for their life after college.

Puzzles
Hoos Spelling

Latest Podcast

All University students are required to live on Grounds in their first year, but they have many on and off-Grounds housing options going into their second year. Students face immense pressure to decide on housing as soon as possible, and this high demand has strained the capacities of both on and off-Grounds accommodations. Lauren Seeliger and Brandon Kile, two third-year Cavalier Daily News writers, discuss the impact of the student housing frenzy on both University students and the Charlottesville community.