Throughout elementary school, I — like many others — was taught to say “John and I went to the store,” and not “me and John.” You shouldn't say “I ated the sandwich” or forget that you’re you (and that’s your bag). And never, ever start a sentence with a conjunction.
Oh, ratemyprofessors.com, my darling, my muse. How I long for your infinite wisdom during add/drop week. You show me the level of effort I will have to put into each of my courses before I even enroll. You save me money on textbooks by assuring me that my Western Civilization professor won’t use it.
The Florida men’s and women’s cross country teams only have one opportunity to compete in front of a home crowd this season.
Of all the activities Roland Thornqvist participates in with the women’s tennis team, laser tag is his favorite.
The word freshman has a natural tendency to plague the minds of coaches and fans with thoughts of inexperience and poor performance.
When senior forward Savannah Jordan was asked about scoring the 72nd goal of her career, moving her up to No. 2 on Florida’s all-time career goal list, the first thing she did was give credit to her teammates.
Luke Del Rio saw his man and flung the ball toward him.
Among the toys, books, crafts and games in the waiting room of the Gainesville Child Advocacy Center, an orange cat named Hank wanders around, looking for attention and cat treats.
Just a couple of weeks after Balls Bar reopened, a new restaurant and bar will compete for the attention of Midtown patrons.
America’s first year-round astronaut will visit UF on Monday.
Week 2 of the NFL season gave Gators fans plenty to watch: a Florida transfer quarterbacking the Patriots, two Gators leading the Redskins’ offense, Joe Haden intercepting two passes from Joe Flacco and Dante Fowler breaking through the backfield against San Diego.
After nearly five years of study, UF researchers have predicted that for every degree global temperatures increase, wheat production will decrease about 6 percent.
Myra Bui wants a UF soccer jersey.
Two Beaty Towers residents were sent home for treatment after contracting a highly contagious super bug.
After Rachael Colandreo heard her pet hog was missing, she found him on Facebook.
Students living in residence halls will have two chances to meet their Student Government Senate candidates.
Four days before the football game, UF is already losing to the University of Tennessee.
This week, I wanted to talk about “SpongeBob SquarePants” again. I also wanted to talk about slapstick, but I feel like I didn’t waste enough of your time explaining exactly why I wanted to delve so deeply into a show geared toward kids. So, I’m going to explain that: why exactly I want to delve so deeply into a show geared toward kids. Let’s go.
As I said last week, I will be exploring in the next few columns the effects of modern technology with our postmodern society, for good and for ill. Last week I discussed how smartphones and social media are often used as means to escape our deeper insecurities. This week I will still be discussing this theme of escaping, but in a different way. And I will be addressing not just social media, but technology as a whole: video games, the internet, binge watching on Netflix or Hulu, etc.
Dear readers, we need to have a serious talk about Tim Tebow.
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