Life

Life

How to not look like a tourist

By Cavalier Daily Staff | July 19, 2007

I'm interning in New York for the summer and my parents came to visit me last weekend. My dad insisted that my mother not take out a map when we were in public so people would not think we were "rednecks from Boise, Idaho" --because clearly Boise connotes more redneck fun than my home state of Georgia. After this experience, I got to thinking about the challenges of fitting in wherever you go on vacation this summer. Some places are easier than others.

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Lego Maniacs

By Joanne Mosuela | July 12, 2007

Several University undergraduate researchers are spending their summer playing with Legos, in simplest terms. Actually, they are not exactly Legos, but BioBricks.

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Earth day, every day

By Lauren Caldwell | July 12, 2007

Perhaps the greatest challenge of an internship with the Environmental Protection Agency is learning to speak a new language.

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Ties and paper shredders don't mix

By Charlie Harris | June 28, 2007

The presidential campaign office of U.S. Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., is in a rather nondescript building in northwest D.C.

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Stranger in a familiar land

By Erik Silk | June 28, 2007

Well, the end happened pretty much just as I thought it would. I emerged from that beautiful ship in San Diego Harbor, weighed down by the spoils of my journey, tearfully greeted by my mother, calling out promises that I would stay in touch with too many new friends.

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Down home cookin' and not much else

By Meredyth Gilmore | June 21, 2007

The Bluegrass Grill does not play bluegrass. In fact, it lacks many of the essential charms of the home of bluegrass, Appalachia.

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Farm fresh foods

By Cavalier Daily Staff | June 21, 2007

After spending a painstaking two hours shelling and blanching fava beans, it finally dawned on me why Americans are so afraid of the kitchen: The act of cooking, in today's frenzy of productivity, is in fact too laborious to manage.

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Not quite a perfect ten

By Julie Eckert | June 21, 2007

Ever since I discovered Ten a few weeks ago while getting drinks with girlfriends, I have been dying to go back and engulf myself in the swanky metropolitan restaurant for a full meal.

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Lost in Translation

By Bailee Barfield | June 14, 2007

I call it "linguistic naturalization." When I returned home after my whirlwind introduction to higher academia as a first-year student, I realized that many components of the lifestyle I took two semesters to familiarize myself with dissolved.

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A guide to finals

By Ed Cao | April 27, 2007

With the last day of classes coming up, students at the University have a lot to look forward to.

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Through a soldier's eyes

By Stephanie Kassab | April 27, 2007

Meet Jo Watts. A little more than two weeks ago, the third-year English major was preparing to return to civilian life.

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A bard, a Brit and bowling

By Bailee Barfield | April 26, 2007

By Bailee Barfield Cavalier Daily Associate Editor With finals quickly approaching, students attempt to stuff back into their heads major works of literature and historical figures assigned in textbooks and mentioned in lectures.

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Swan song

By Winnie Chao | April 26, 2007

To all of us who will soon be alumni of the University of Virginia, let's look back fondly on our time well spent. Remember the first time you streaked the Lawn.

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Thank you for the music

By Laura Sisk | April 26, 2007

I did not want to come to the University of Virginia. I had my heart set on another school, but I guess the universe works in mysterious ways.

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MCAT mania

By Vinu Ilakkuvan | April 25, 2007

When high school seniors pick up their #2 pencils and fill in that last bubble on the answer sheet for the SATs, they often breathe a sigh of relief, thinking they are done with standardized testing.

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One gene short of a chromosome

By Daniel McNally | April 25, 2007

The wisdom tooth in the lower right corner of my mouth is bothering me. I don't know what's causing the pain or whether it will go away on its own, but it's making me rue the day that tooth reared its ugly enamel.

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The biggest party on the East Coast

By Nancy Chae | April 25, 2007

Mud sliding, exploding fire hydrants, a flaming car drenched in gasoline -- all this while the majority of the 10,000 person crowd was, let's say, "not in the right state of mind." In the 1960s and 70s, this was the annual tradition of Easters at the University. Easters has a long history, dating back just prior to the turn of the century.

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Guide to e-mail

By Dan Dooley | April 25, 2007

As college students, our lives are largely dependent on our ability to communicate through electronic mail, or "e-mail" as it is known to modern hipsters.

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John Polanyi the science guy

By Steve Austin | April 24, 2007

With Nobel Laureate John Polanyi's speech about his life in the field of science falling only a few days after the Virginia Tech tragedy, it came as no surprise when he related the two topics. "Is there a relevance to this topic," Polanyi asked the audience, "and these events having to do with your friends at Virginia Tech?" Polanyi suggested that since science gives rise to technology, the two are related. "Technology provides these ready instruments that can create life and death," Polanyi said. He suggested that while guns and nuclear weapons can take many lives, penicillin and other types of medical technology make life possible at the same time. In his speech last Thursday, Polanyi, the recipient of the 1986 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his work in reaction theory, spoke to the University community in the Dome Room about his experience in the scientific community.

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Teacher of teachers

By Ashley Simpson | April 24, 2007

Born and raised in the "wide open spaces" of Minnesota, Education Prof. Jane Hansen said she has known what she has wanted to do since she was in second grade. "I remember the day when I came home and announced to my mom and dad that I was going to be a teacher," Hansen said. Now she is the teacher's teacher -- she teaches current and future teachers how to teach. "I am a professor in the reading program and what I do is teach writing for teachers," Hansen said.