Same thing, different year. The sun comes out and so do the half- naked girls on campus. I’m graduating in three weeks, and I’m still not used to seeing this happen. I’m a woman, and I still feel uncomfortable with seeing bikini clad women lounging around campus throughout the entire day. May ...
For the seniors at Longwood, change often happens after graduation. This year, however, change begins at graduation. This is the first time, in my knowledge, that any major change has happened with graduation. I don’t necessarily think that the changes happening with Longwood’s graduation are bad, ...
Sitting down with friends, I hear them classify people. This person is a hipster. This person is an athlete. This person is a gamer. They talk about how they were excluded in high school or they butt heads with the others. They talk about how Longwood is like a high school: being on the small side of ...
There’s no doubt about it; parking at Longwood is a headache. Some may even say it’s one of the worst experiences they’ve had in college. Tickets, being towed, paying outrageous amounts for a parking ticket each semester and trying to find a spot to park your nice car where it won’t get backed ...
Cell phones in class, pretty much a professor’s biggest pet peeve- or are they? Some professors have very strict policies set up that are meant to scare students from using cell phones in class — Policies like getting a zero for class participation or even being asked to leave. But it’s been my ...
It’s time to confess to you what my friends have always known. I’m a messy roommate. In the doorway to my Landings cubicle, there are several scattered library books from a project on LGBT youth. The top of my dresser is the home of assorted change, two boxes of cookies and perhaps one or two socks. ...
We’ve all felt it: the anxiety, the anger and the sadness that follows submitting an assignment. In many ways, it’s a release to let go of a paper, a quiz, a test or a group project but then the waiting game begins. You wonder, unless you are a very specific type of person, how you did, if you fulfilled ...
Sustainability at Longwood became very popular around my freshman year, with the freshman required to read “Radical Simplicity: Small Footprints on a Finite Earth” by Jim Merkel for LSEM. I read the entire book, met Mr. Merkel during New Lancer Days, and had a chance to pick his brain. The subject ...
With summer theoretically around the corner, if spring will ever come and go, insecurities pop up for everyone. When that sun does come out, if it ever stops snowing and being cold, you will be able to wear shorts, dresses and bikinis. Why not wear them with your winter body? These questions will be ...
Attending a university is a stressful event in itself. If a person happens to fail a course, come down with a grade- altering illness or something else that may put a damper on his or her plans for good grades and that high GPA we all strive for, there will come a time where quitting school is on your ...
Everybody has bad habits that they want to rid themselves of. Breaking the bad habits that you’ve had since long before your time at Longwood, or even picked up while you’ve been here, are hard, but it’s important that eventually you break them. You have to realize you’re doing something bad ...
Everything does happen in spring, particularly in Virginia with its famously schizophrenic weather. Take for example an early Thursday morning wherein I poked my head out of the Landings doorway like a gigantic groundhog, and saw the inexplicable: snow. Snow rained down, blowing sideways, and so did ...
Attending a university is a stressful event in itself. If a person happens to fail a course, come down with a grade-altering illness, or something else that may put a damper in his or her plans for good grades and that high GPA we all strive for, there will come a time where quitting school is on your ...
Graduate school is not a subject to take lightly and shouldn’t be a rash decision. I’ve been looking into graduate school since my freshman year as an undergraduate. I’ve changed my mind almost as much as I’ve kept it consistent. The problems with graduate school are large, but there are also ...
Enforcement plays an important part in our legal system and in most of our society’s working organizations. Really, what would a rule be if it weren’t attached to a penalty? Police officers stop speeders, students get academic probation for low grades; tenants are evicted if unable to pay. It all ...
For decades, news of floating plastic islands in the Pacific, of overloaded landfills and of the world’s dwindling freshwater and arable land has been reported. They have served since the ’70s, with the help of your friendly neighborhood ecologists, to forecast the impending doom of the planet. ...
“If you can’t do it right, don’t do it at all.” That’s how some things should be. That’s how it should be in some academic aspects. There are professors I have learned much from and some I couldn’t tell you anything they said because they tend to talk at you rather than to you on a daily ...
These days, there’s a lot of talk about what it means to be American and returning to American values. However, it seems to me that much of this rhetoric glosses over, disguises or neuters the nation’s history. There are numerous ways in which America has not been a single monolithic brand ...
Growing up in the 21st century is an experience, to say the least. It’s weird to say that I am neither pleased nor displeased with the way the country is headed, because the meaning of the word “weird” is hard to nail down. I am obviously female; I am almost 22. I haven’t been around as long ...
Protest and war have changed. Autocrats have even been uprooted by a series of tweets. Some might say that protest has not changed and that war is not so much different than it ever was. Sure enough, one will always include the killing of people and the other public dissent. However, the way in which ...
