LIKE IT or not, the focus of college is on the classes you take. This column is meant to help out incoming first years in the College make it through their first year or two as painless as possible. As you may have noticed, the College has an absurd amount of required courses.
IF THERE'S one thing that can live up to the hype, it's college. There's no other time in your life when you find that perfect blend of childhood dependence and adult freedom.
FORGET everything you've heard about the black pants, and throw your pastel polo shirts out the window.
THERE are probably several things you expect to get out of your four years of education here at the University: some great memories, a few life-long friends, and the ability to discuss the symbolism in Dante's Inferno like nobody's business.
ONCE AGAIN, it's that wonderful time of year. Everyone is enjoying their summer and anticipating the return to friends and good times here at the University.
NO MATTER if hell freezes over, dogs and cats start talking, and the sun doesn't rise in the morning, there always will be a large group of first years clamoring to get into the McIntire School of Commerce.
ONCE AGAIN, we bring you Ask Mr. Dating Expert, a relationship advice column in which we provide answers to real, unsolicited questions from the Virginia community.
IF YOU thought you had the right to speak freely within the community of trust, think again. Under current University policies, you are free to state your opinion only so far as it aligns with the whims of the administration.
I WILL always remember my first visit to the University. I recently had been accepted as a transfer student from Syracuse University, so I drove to Charlottesville for summer orientation.
I HAVE gotten into every class I ever wanted to take at this university each semester; however, this is not a common claim made by most students.
PRIOR to arriving at summer orientation, a high-school friend and I collaborated one afternoon to plan our individual class schedules for our first semester at the University.
S UMMER break is often a good time for students to reflect on accomplishments and to plan future involvement at Mr. Jefferson's University.
HERE IS a question that every first year should have to answer prior to their arrival at the University this August: What does a kind, considerate, loyal individual have in common with a self-centered, dishonest or even mean-spirited person?
YOU ALL have probably heard at least a hundred times in the past few months that college will be a life-changing experience.
AS YOU enjoy your final summer before embarking on the incredible journey that is the University, you are deluged with mailings from the school, but only care about that one envelope ... your roommate assignment.
THE ENGINEERING School owes me one year of my life back. That's how I see it, at least. I spent my entire first year immersed in classes ranging from Material Science to Computer Science.
CONTRARY to that infamous portrayal of college life, "Animal House," not all students drink - gasp. However, if you don't you will forever be labeled as no fun and ostracized from all University social life.
QUICK! Describe the typical U.Va. student. White. Fairly - if not very - well-off. Hailing from Northern Virginia.
EVERY August, thousands of new students step on Grounds and are quickly immersed in the jargon of the University.
HE LOVED that bike. Sure, it wasn't the nicest one around, but he had gotten it in eighth grade.
