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.
Cheap or easy-when it comes to buying textbooks, you usually can't have both.
Bright Futures recipients are still getting a hell of a break, but this year it won't be quite as big.
A pedestrian on UF's Stadium Road Friday afternoon may have mistaken the swarm of freshmen for a new military branch.
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.
Zumaly Dixon snuggles in her dorm bed while on her laptop as a Harry Potter movie plays in the background.
It might be a year late, but we here at alligatorSports believe in change too.
The Aug. 17 edition of the Alligator incorrectly stated that Karma Cream aims to sell free-trade products. It aims to sell fair-trade products. The photograph accompanying the article identified the co-owner of Karma Cream as Payal Eatel. Her name is Payal Patel.
If tuition included a personal tour guide, navigating a new school would be simple. Fortunately, new Gators can benefit from the next best thing.
UF climbed two spots in both the national and public school standings in the U.S. News & World Report 2010 rankings.
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.
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.
Senior Ashlee Elliott promised pizazz this year and delivered after one game.
"Smokey, this is not 'Nam. This is bowling. There are rules."
Editor's Note: This is the first of a four-part alligatorSports series in which we examine whether college athletes deserve to be paid for their athletic efforts.
Tim Tebow can't go a day without seeing himself or his team mentioned on TV, but he's not tuning in for the talk of Florida winning a third title in four years or his bid for a second Heisman Trophy and college football immortality.
Sunday not only acted as a reminder of the beginning of a new volleyball season, it also marked the beginning of the end of senior libero Elyse Cusack's career at Florida.
Florida linebacker Dustin Doe settled his legal issues Thursday, but coach Urban Meyer said he hasn't complained rejoined the Gators yet.
Carlos Dunlap stepped into the national spotlight in January, but that may have been just the beginning.
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