You’re finally in college. No one is nagging you about a project being due. No one is making sure you’re paying attention in class. And no one is telling you when to be home at night.
I remember freshman move-in day. After the sweaty process of transporting boxes of stuff through Florida rain and humidity, I was excited to make my new space into my new home. I had the bedspread, the desk lamp and storage bins, all from department stores.
In between all of the true learning you will be doing for the next four years — like how to properly perform a keg stand and handle the subsequent hangover — remember, this is college and you do have to take classes.
Student organizations like the UF Falling Gators Skydiving Club are a great way to make friends and break the monotony of the academic week.
A cornerstone of the area is the Hippodrome State Theatre, which is entering its 40th season. The Hipp, as locals know it, is housed in an old federal building with Corinthian columns at 25 SE Second Place.
What began as a passion for Native American customs expanded into a boutique in 2008. Now the expansion continues in order to serve the community.
Before you decide you want to be a student leader, or before you decide that you want nothing to do with Student Government, hear the facts.
When UF students pack the libraries, stress levels spike and coffee replaces beer as the drink of choice, exam week has arrived.
Ted Kubisek stood in front of the fan to combat the heat during the shop’s last week of being open for business. He spoke to customers and employees in a way that shows he’s known them for years.
There are a ton of bike stores around here. These establishments will help with all fixes: if your lock gets rained on and rusts shut, if you get in an accident (knock on wood), if you need to buy a tube replacement, etc.
On Aug. 30, UF’s own Orange and Brew will open its doors (for free) to showcase some of Gainesville’s very own local musicians.
Students interested in working on campus can find job openings on the university’s website, https://jobs.ufl.edu/, as well as listings on the Reitz Union’s website, www.union.ufl.edu/jobs, and UF’s Office of Human Resource Services’ website, www.hr.ufl.edu.
Southwest Recreation Center is a lot farther from your dorm than it looks on the map. That’s when buses come in handy.
It’s 6 p.m. You just woke up from a nap in your dorm room, and your stomach is screaming in hunger. The last thing you want to do is put an Easy Mac bowl in the common area’s sketchy microwave. It’s the first week of your freshman year, so you don’t know anything beyond the bounds of University Avenue or 13th Street.
The Reitz Union offers leisure courses, or informal classes taken for fun, year-round. The classes meet periodically at the Reitz Union or at other locations in Gainesville, making them popular for students, faculty members and locals alike. People enroll each semester by the hundreds.
When you first get to UF, that stretch of bars and restaurants across from the stadium, on a little lane called University Avenue, seem to glisten. That strip, in all its glory, beckons you from your dorm late at night after your parents move you in, when you’re finally free of curfews.
Mutch, a Gainesville native, created the blog Indie Gainesville last August as a way to organize a collective voice for the independent local businesses in Gainesville. As the wife of a local business owner, Mutch saw the issues that many local businesses were facing such as parking in the downtown area and felt they needed to be faced together.
UF police have arrested two suspects who claimed to have placed a bomb in Shands Hospital for Children on Tuesday. The suspects were placed under the Baker Act and are undergoing psychiatric evaluation. Their identities have not been released, according to the Act.
A source close to the situation confirmed to The Alligator that Florida quarterback Jeff Driskel missed practice with a sore shoulder Monday and Tuesday.
UF has decided to postpone the removal of 19 newspaper racks until January 2013.
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