THE BEST advice in college is not to take advice. Family, friends, professors and advisors will all have their own opinions on your studies, majors, courses and extracurricular life.
THERE are hundreds of contracted independent organizations (CIOs), or student-run clubs, at the University.
I REMEMBER very distinctly a conversation I had back in Pittsburgh near the close of my senior year of high school with a teacher and fellow liberal.
YOU WILL not get your first choice or your second choice class to take Tuesday/Thursday at ten. To be honest, you probably won't get your third or fourth either. So dig in. Your advisor will not teach in the department in which you plan to major.
LIFE AS a graduate student is not all beer and skittles. Very few people come to graduate school with this notion, and they are soon disabused of their misconceptions.
STUDENT Council in my high school began at 8:30 a.m. when school started and ended 15 minutes later when we had finished announcing the recent sport results, students' birthdays and, of course, the daily lunch menu over the intercom.
AUG. 24, 2005, 10:02 a.m. First day of your college career. You're seated in an auditorium with two hundred students for your first 101 class.
THE 1999 Statistics on Alcohol and Other Drug Use on American campuses concludes that, within the last 30 days, 73.2 percent of students have consumed alcohol.
WE ALL heard the story and followed the media frenzy surrounding the so-called "Runaway Bride." Whether you think that Jennifer Wilbanks is a spoiled southern belle looking for attention or not, one fact, which was not revealed until her interview with Katie Couric, remains: Her decision to do the "running" was between a bus ticket and a bottle of pills, indicative of serious underlying emotional distress.
DO YOU REMEMBER your three Rs? Reduce, Reuse and Recycle: The cornerstone of every elementary school child's environmental science education.
ASK MOST people what they think of hate crimes, and they will say that such acts are obviously bad.
Last week, the University of California announced that it would stop awarding scholarships for National Merit Scholars.
ON SUNDAY, the New York Times printed full color photographs of people who died in the London suicide bombings, held up by devastated family members and friends.
AS THE partisan infighting over increasingly powerful federal judicial appointments reaches a fever pitch, the Supreme Court in the past few months has taken a welcome respite from its recent history of enlarging its own power to veto the decisions of popularly elected officials, Gonzalez v.
EVERY YEAR leaders from eight of the world's leading industrial nations meet to discuss pressing global issues and attempt to reach viable solutions.
TWENTY-FOUR hours a day, seven days a week. Two weeks of vacation per year. Consumption-obsessed workaholics.
OVER THE past few weeks, demagogic political figures have threatened America's economic future by parroting tired lines about energy independence and the threat of a rising China. The source of these cries stems from the attempted purchase of the American oil firm, Unocal, by the Chinese state-run petroleum corporation, China National Offshore Oil Company.
DESPITE Washington D.C.'s ongoing battle with violent crime, several Republicans in Congress are spearheading a plan to reverse the city's handgun restrictions.
EVERY day, 30,000 or so children die across the world from easily preventable poverty. According to the National Victim Center, approximately 1,871 rapes occur everyday in the United States alone.
