January, 2011
Black And Gold
Jan. 26, 2011—Vanderbilt's got a new anthem. First-year student (and Vanderbilt Melodore) Nick Wells remixed and remade the recent Whiz Kalifa hit "Black and Yellow" into what I predict will be a Vandy classic: "Black and Gold."
Let it snow!
Jan. 25, 2011—As a Florida girl, I don’t have much experience with snow. I’d seen it a few times before coming to Vanderbilt, but this year has been the first time I’ve lived in it. And I love it. Every time I see those flakes cover campus in a soft white blanket, I have to go outside....
Poetry, out loud.
Jan. 25, 2011—Last Thursday, I was able to attend Jericho Brown’s reading at the Black Cultural Center here on Vanderbilt campus. The Vanderbilt Creative Writing program hosts Gertrude & Harold Vanderbilt Visiting Writers Series where different poetry and fiction authors come read and do a Q&A for those who attend the reading. The awesome thing about these...
Doodling – The Art of Champions
Jan. 24, 2011—I do everything on graph paper. I managed to use normal, college-ruled loose-leaf or spiral notebooks for note-taking in a few classes last semester, but my wealth of engineering and math-intensive classes has me using only graph paper for note-taking and assignments. The beauty of graph paper is twofold: it lends some extra order and...
Cafe Coco and “The Card”
Jan. 23, 2011—Last night, my friends and I were pretty bored and hungry. We spent the day hanging out in our dorm because it was cold and gray outside. Sometimes, after a long week, the best way to spend a Saturday is to relax and bond with the girls. We didn’t want to go to the dining...
I Survived My First College Illness!
Jan. 23, 2011—Okay, so “illness” may sound a bit dramatic, but I did have the flu last week.
Typical Saturday Morning – Not!
Jan. 23, 2011—Saturday I decided to venture to S.I.R. Studios just a mile or so from campus to attend an open call audition for NBC’s “The Voice” that will be going on the air soon. It had been a while since I tried the whole cattle-call audition but I thought what the heck, it’s so conveniently close...
Casino Night!
Jan. 23, 2011—Friday night was the VPB (Vanderbilt Programming Board) sponsored “Casino Night” in the Student Life Center. For all of us that wanted some good clean fun to partake in, the SLC ballroom hired a casino staff to run dozens of tables where students could play roulette, craps, backjack and texas hold ’em. They even had...
Week Update
Jan. 23, 2011—This week was awesome! It kicked off with me trying out a new church: Green Hills Church, service takes place at Cabana (a nice restaurant on 21st avenue). I went to visit this church with my friend Brian because my usual ride (with my friend Martha) to Grace Community Church was out of town on...
NINE
Jan. 22, 2011—Keepin’ it short and sweet here. I went to see Vanderbilt Off Broadway’s (VOB) production of NINE: The Musical tonight at Blair (after journeying to the wrong part of campus… One could logically assume a musical would be in the “theater.”), and it was phenomenal. There were parts where a few singers were pitchy, or...