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Life

What's that smell?

I like to cook. My friends like to cook. Yes, I have friends. Some have suggested that I have friends only because I cook well, but enough speculation for now. We like to cook in my apartment.


Life

Office Space-out

Before I launch into a wealth of valuable advice (read: a couple of slightly humorous observtions) for the first-time office worker, I must say a word about something I realized today -- getting out of a mall at closing time is tantamount to escaping from Alcatraz ... at high tide ... in shark-infested waters.


Life

The taboo truth?

As humans, and especially as students, we have this nagging voice that encourages us to want to find out more about things that are taboo.


Life

Un partido cruel

Nothing spells summer like the letters "s," "u," "m," "m," "e" and "r." That's a fact. You can write it down if you want. But if you live in a country other than the United States, this summer can also be encapsulated by the curious compound word "football." Derived from the Greek for "incredibly dull," the word has been anglicized to refer to a game in which 22 men incidentally crash into one another and then act like fish out of water, flopping around in feigned agony until an older man threatens them with an almighty square of yellow or red construction paper.


Life

The Real World: Summer

While some University students travel the globe during their summers and others find time to tan at the beach, some many University students are hard at work as interns.


Life

Holiday in the sun

Put down your flute of champagne and get off the plush G5's seat. You have arrived, and it is time to get off the plane.


Life

Take it easy there, old geezer

Maybe you're in your early 20s. Maybe you're just a teenager. It doesn't matter, you're old. You might not know it but, in many ways, your best years are already behind you.


Life

Flying high

It was a hot, sunny morning on May 4, the first day of finals. It was definitely not a day conducive to studying or taking exams.


Life

Oh, What a year!

Brendan: For many fourth years, this will be the last Life column they read as students. We want nothing more than to end their illustrious Cav Daily-reading careers on a high note, and really go out with a bang.


Life

Hallowed History

Walking through the old wrought iron gates of the University Cemetery on a sunny afternoon in April, students are met with a peaceful calm.


Life

Closing time

Acouple of months ago, I started to get bothered by the concept of time. You see, I am a late bloomer when it comes down to it.


Life

One year wonder

In his much quoted epic "The Aeneid," Virgil said, "Fortune favors the brave." Although there is no doubt Virgil meant for the line to define the heroic deeds of the Trojan exiles, the notion of "brave" could easily be applied to first-year College student David Banh, who is graduating from the University this year. An Early Bird Banh said one major reason for his desire to graduate from the University in one year was financial. "A lot of it was financial motivations," Banh said.


Life

Howe brilliant

Even though he has been teaching classes since 1976, Architecture Prof. Joe Howe said he considers himself "basically just a construction man." Howe attended The Citadel, a military college in South Carolina, for his undergraduate education, which was interrupted by World War II. "Dec.


Life

Best in CLAS

As the semester winds down and students eagerly await their fall classes or curse ISIS for a late registration time, many still cannot decide which courses are worth their while. Though some may be looking for an easy "A" or a class without a required discussion, there are many courses out there which students found essential to their education at the University.


Life

TV is life

Unlike the world of Ducktales and Darkwing Duck, which apparently exists in a parallel universe populated by intelligent super-mallards, the world of Rescue Rangers takes place in our own reality, albeit animated.


Life

Tax-free shopping spree

Usually, parents snatch up school supplies as soon as they come out, and only a few wait to buy crayons and notebooks until the last lazy days of summer. This year, all of that will change. Gov.


Life

Classtime = naptime?

If you've ever looked around the room in one of your classes, then you should know as well as I do that sleeping in class is rampant here at the University Between the kids who are either struggling to keep their eyes open, falling asleep and waking up abruptly every five minutes or sprawled out on their desks drooling and snoring, I think it's pretty safe to say that 10 to 25 percent of students will fall asleep at some point in almost any lecture. How can this be?

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