Acclaimed poet Busta Rhymes, the man who delivered the best verse on A Tribe Called Quest’s seminal album "The Low End Theory," once wrote that "My making it is a combination of grinding, grinding, grinding and being lucky enough to finally get a shot."
ost internships, paid or unpaid, are incredibly beneficial. They are a chance to learn and make valuable connections. More importantly, they allow you to test-drive a career and gain work experience. Even if you ultimately decide you don’t want to pursue a job in your internship’s field, many of the skills you honed will be useful in a different position down the road. While unpaid internships can have many of the same positive attributes as paid ones, they can also be problematic. Depending on the internship length, type of work, hours and chances of employment, they range from being a helpful learning experience to outright exploitation.
A few weeks ago, my poor, innocent mother asked me the dreaded question: "What is Tumblr?" Considering how long the blogging platform has been around, it’s odd that we had avoided talking about it up until this point. I walked her through the basics, but I felt bad when I left her unprepared for the things she might stumble upon when browsing the site for scrapbooking ideas.
In the current news cycle, the issue of immigration is drawing more attention than usual. This is partly due to what is going on in our own country, namely, our upcoming presidential election. It doesn’t help that the current GOP frontrunner is the most explicitly nativist public figure since Daniel Day-Lewis’ character in "Gangs of New York."
Florida’s secondary is known around the country as one of the best in college football.
The first game of the Gators’ Southeastern Conference schedule did not go as planned.
The Gators take on the East Carolina Pirates for the second time in nine months on Saturday night in The Swamp, but they will do so with a different starting quarterback.
Among the sea of students hustling on Turlington Plaza on Wednesday, UF student Aleena Martin held up a pink sign with the words, “FREE HUGS.”
Whether you enjoy learning through films, discussions, musical performances or art exhibits, there is something for everyone to learn about Latino culture at Gainesville’s September film festival.
Gainesville Police arrested a local man Tuesday afternoon after he reportedly stole money and was found with spice, a synthetic form of marijuana.
On Wednesday evening — the same day as his 28th birthday — Jonathan Long stopped a robbery.
Today on Turlington Plaza, students can buy treats for a sweet cause.
Going away to college for the first time isn’t easy.
UF’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences’ new associate dean for research grew up on a small farm and chose to get her doctorate in agricultural and resource economics at Oregon State University.
UF is still on the waiting list for Chipotle delivery.
This past Tuesday, we ran a column titled “Mediocre Advice: Fair skin, bedroom advice.” The column engendered a fair amount of controversy over the columnist’s assertion “pale is better,” in response to an inquiry from a woman asking how to get a tan despite Gainesville’s rainy weather.
As noted in last week’s Darts & Laurels, a Kentucky clerk has been jailed for refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. She appealed her case all the way to the Supreme Court — who ruled this summer that marriage is a right to be enjoyed by all — and was denied an appeal. Despite being effectively ordered to do so by the highest authority of law in the U.S., she still refused to issue licenses.
Comedian Christopher Titus is coming to Gainesville to support his seventh 90-minute comedy special, “Born With a Defect.”
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