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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...
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...
“Spirit-Fingers”
Jan. 20, 2011—Yesterday evening, the Vanderbilt Athletic Department and Vandy Fanatics held their biggest event of the year, Memorial Madness, an annual basketball pep rally that ushers in the start of the SEC season. With the promise of the company of close friends, free pizza, jersey/ticket give-aways, prize drawings, the chance to win $10,000 upon successfully landing...
Memorial Madness
Jan. 19, 2011—Tonight was the one-a-year basketball event, coined “Memorial Madness.” Students piled in Memorial Gym for the game against Ole Miss tonight…which we ultimately won. Yeaaa. There were a lot of promotional events going on before and during the game – In addition to a big pep rally, Vanderbilt gave out free Jeffrey Taylor #44 jerseys...
The PCC
Jan. 19, 2011—Today I walked to the Baker Building to pick up a copy of my transcript from the Registrar’s office on the 1st floor. It’s such a big building, I thought to ask the receptionist what else was housed here. I learned that Vanderbilt’s Psychological and Counseling Center is actually located on the top floor. The PCC has...
Graphs
Jan. 19, 2011—As I browsed the Vanderbilt Admissions pages, blogs, and various resources in a vain search for inspiration, a horrifying fact became apparent. Despite the large number of available lists, links, articles, pictures, and videos, the Vandy Admissions page is home to not a single graph. Zero. ZERO.