They say that travel expands the mind, but in the few short weeks I spent in England, Ireland and the Netherlands this summer, I found just the opposite to be true.
Health care reform, Michael Jackson and Lady GaGa's penis. What do all of these things have in common? Together they comprise 99.9% of the news cycle, and I never want to hear about any of them ever again. Under any circumstances. Period.
Having taken French classes since high school, I am always impressed with someone who has actually learned to be fluent in a foreign language.
This is in response to Kyle Maistri's "Fanifesto," in which he groups the Tampa Bay Rays with the Yankees and Red Sox as three baseball teams which are off limits to bandwagon fans.
Moving back to campus after summer break is a hectic experience, and something that happened today made it more stressful. My daughter and I, in between moving into her new apartment near the campus and shopping at several local stores for essentials, decided to go to a local restaurant for a quick takeout lunch. Traffic was, as it always is on the last weekend before classes, very heavy with new and old students buying from every type of area
Justice and compassion may be abstract concepts, but that doesn't mean they elude all definition. Actually, we know for a fact that the concepts of 'justice' and 'freeing a mass murderer" are mutually exclusive.
This past summer, while everyone was in a chilled-out, lazy summer mood, I was the girl armed with her class schedule, 50 fliers, a campus map and the bus schedule. I was the one spinning around wildly with a deer-in-headlights look on my face, trying to figure out where my next class was.
To all you students who are new to UF, welcome to the next four years of your life. Returning Gators, try to cut the freshmen some slack and welcome back as well.
It might be a year late, but we here at alligatorSports believe in change too.
Want to hang out at our house? Well, Friday is your chance. 'Cause it's Friday. You ain't got no job, and you ain't got shit to do.
Bright Futures recipients are still getting a hell of a break, but this year it won't be quite as big.
One of the worst welcomes a UF student can receive is "permanent triple." Probably the second worst welcome they could receive would be telling them they have to room with a cross between a peer, a Mother Hen and an authority figure.
"Smokey, this is not 'Nam. This is bowling. There are rules."
Don't let Urban Meyer and Kyle Mastri fool you into thinking Joe Haden will be spending any real time on offense this season.
UF coach Urban Meyer has called Joe Haden one of the top five athletes he has ever coached.
When it came time to move up to Gainesville and start my college career three years ago, I ended up living in Thomas Hall with by best friend from high school.
December of my junior year, I was sitting in my friend Jen's apartment drinking Sangria. I was also about to fail my organic chemistry class, which I was taking for the third time after dropping it twice.
In introducing incoming freshmen to the Opinions pages of the Alligator, we have to temporarily revert (at least mentally) to what it was like to move to Gainesville. The only guideline we have to go on for the inaugural editorial is something freshmen would like.
I really feel bad for all you freshmen.
Alas, you've made it. Your 'rents are gone, you're already sick of Broward Dining and you may or may not have thrown up in your pillow case last night. (R.I.P. Fall 2006; I haven't eaten pad thai since.)
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