For brand new freshmen, the first few weeks of college life can be exciting and liberating, but they can also feel scary and overwhelming.
Students are wising up to hard classes, taking a hint from Darwin and sniffing out the easy ones: adaptation at its best.
So you've been to Preview, learned the chomp, met advisers and heard a plethora of presentations. But as the euphoria of diving deeper into the Gator Nation wanes, there are things those who've crawled the swamps before you want you to know, like how to get the classes you want when 50,000 Gators are chomping for the same bite.
Around October, brightly colored study guides, stacks of flashcards and coffee thermoses start popping up in the arms of students all over campus.
If you're not paying attention to UF Student Government, you probably should. It controls a $17 million budget paid for by you and 50,000 of your fellow students.
There is no yellow brick road of transportation in the land of the orange and blue.
With the ever-increasing cost of tuition and college students' budgets steadily shrinking, purchasing new books from the university bookstore just isn't an option for some anymore.
Peeing, driving or walking could leave you on the wrong side of the law if there's alcohol involved.
Don't fret, young grasshopper, the Alligator is here to help.
On behalf of the UF Student Body, welcome to the Gator Nation! This is the beginning of the greatest years of your life, and we are here to guide you as you transition to college.
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A technology boost makes safe riding a snap.
Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, Patsy Cline, Dinah Shore, Walter Cronkite and Ed Sullivan are alive and rehearsing for their upcoming performance in Gainesville.
Showers may be a necessity for all, but they come as a luxury for some.
Allison Corfield always had to make the same decision at 9:30 p.m.: Should she watch "Are You Afraid of the Dark?"
UF took a dive in rankings that will simultaneously please administrators and leave students disgusted.
Usually at the end of summer vacation, I muse about how fast time went by. But this summer went by as slow as any I can remember.
Since the invention of peer-to-peer file sharing, independent artists have had to find new ways to get their music out to the masses.
If you sat down a few weekends ago to see the final chapter of the Harry Potter film franchise or munched popcorn a couple of years ago while everyone else in the theater was flipping out about the "phenomenal graphics" of "Avatar," you may not have noticed how fatigued your eyes were getting.
UF's newest graduates may have more to fear this weekend than an unfriendly job market.
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