The deadline for studying abroad is quickly approaching, so odds are you have already made a decision about where and when you want to go. You’ve heard the application advice and you’ve (hopefully) registered for Study Abroad 101. But what does all of this really mean?
As a junior currently studying at University College London, it’s definitely safe to say that “studying abroad” only moves beyond its numbers-on-paper stage when your plane finally lands.
Deciding the location of your next home is one of the biggest decisions you get to make each year (aside from picking your spring break location, of course). Making that decision is a game of pros and cons. As someone who has lived both on and off campus and in several colleges’ dorms (the current one being the property of the University College London), I feel compelled to share a few of the realizations I have reached concerning the following dilemma: Do I stay, or do I go?
Many of you would rather bulldoze the Bunny than leave campus; still more of you have been itching to leave Washington University housing ever since you got your towel stolen from the shower by your feisty freshman floormates.
For those returning home during the winter holidays, there are more preparations to make than just throwing all of the dirty clothes in a suitcase. Whether you are returning home from your first semester or your seventh, there are several important things to keep in mind.
As the holiday coupons wedge their way under the doors, don’t get carried away by sales. Advertisers are doing their best to tempt potential customers into passing out iPods and ponies to their closest friends and family. Most people spend a great deal of money around the holiday season with the justification that they will save later, but according to Mike Gordinier, a senior lecturer in the Olin Business School and professor of the popular Personal Finance class, now is the time to be saving, not spending-and not just in this time of the season, but in this time of life.
Turkey hands, leaf collages, pumpkin-flavored treats: The Thanksgiving of the past can be roughly summed up by these tacky, delicious and entertaining vestiges of our childhoods.
The holiday was simple- there was no laboring over the injustices committed by the Pilgrims or the fact that the story of the “first Thanksgiving” was likely a sham.
College food is a lot like the Loch Ness monster-everyone has heard all about it, but the details are fuzzy.
While college food is no vicious sea monster, what’s the guarantee that eating it won’t let unidentified creatures into the digestive tract?
Fortunately, I have been eating at Washington University for two years and have never found anything suspicious in my food.
If teenage television is any indicator, being popular is the only thing to strive for in those tender teen years. The Fashion Club in the long-lost series “Daria,” the undying admiration of the quarterback and head cheerleader in every sports movie, the short-lived series “Popular,” Regina George in “Mean Girls” or the song “Popular” from the hit musical “Wicked” are all society’s reminders that being “in” is the only way to be.
As long as life has existed on earth, there have been twins. Twins are something of a common phenomenon, appearing frequently enough to be exempted from the ‘freak of nature’ category, but not often enough to escape endless fascination.
Twins have been the feature of countless movies and television shows; we have Mary-Kate and Ashley to thank for gaining a new appreciation of the phrase “two of a kind.
While I cannot speak for the rest of the Washington University student body, I can personally say that if I were a child, I would brush my teeth at least four times a day if I had a Tooth Tunes singing toothbrush. Sadly, those childhood days have passed for me.
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