During my freshman spring, a Spanish professor tried to console me after giving me a 65 on a paper, by discounting grades as no more than "the language of the institution." It was a sneaky move, revealing her reservations about the grading process and giving the appearance of being anti-establishment, all while not agreeing to do anything about my grade.
In a town where the acronym "SEC'' calls to mind not the Securities and Exchange Commission but the Southeastern Conference, I began a long way from Hanover in both location and state of mind.
There comes a time in every American college student's life when she must confront the fact that her best friend did not arise from a vacuum - that her friend did, in fact have a life, home and family before college.
(Free) Sex Religious epiphanies Bowel movements Surprise visits by S&S Moments of clarity about your future Greenprint breakdowns Macaroni day at Collis The snow days we never had Unexpected, but much-needed extensions Genuine FMLs Overheards
My roommate is taking two classes, the stereotypical and completely acceptable sophomore summer workload.
"He has the face of a bandit," my Argentine host mother decided after meeting a date who had come to pick me up.
When a supporter of former president Ronald Reagan, Raymond "Doc" Frazier, saw Mikhail Gorbachev for the first time, he knew from his manner of dress that he was the right General Secretary of the Communist Party to help thaw the Cold War. "All I had ever seen of Soviet leaders was [Nikita] Khrushchev banging his shoe on the table and some old men in drab uniforms all looking like Mao Zedong, you know, had no personality and looked like they were zombies," he said, according to a CNN documentary.
A look into on-campus eating establishments and their influence on student life
Dear Sydney, Lately I have found myself seized with premature baby lust and other emotional responses disproportionate to the stimulus.
Editor's Note: While we jeered at freshmen circling the bonfire, Alex Schindler '10 was sweating it in Cairo.