‘commodores’
Journaling the Experience
Oct. 5, 2010—Hey everybody out there! I’ve always wanted to have a journal I could look back on and do all the corny things you see in the movies—laugh at the funny memories, shed a few tears over the tough times, but mostly just remember. Remember my initial impressions of friends; remember running through the V at...
The First Few Weeks
Oct. 5, 2010—My name is Erica Graff, from Miami Beach, Florida, and I am one of the new student bloggers here at Vanderbilt. I am a first-year student in the College of Arts and Science, with an undecided major but the intention of going ‘pre-med.’
March Madness – On and Off Campus
Mar. 24, 2010—Off campus – the week in review: Everyone’s bracket has been completely destroyed. Who would have called some of these upsets? Vanderbilt basketball… oh well. All is not lost. Yea we lost our chance at playing Kentucky and finally handing their rear ends to them, but in talking with the team last night at Sigma...
Even Nashville Loves Ice
Mar. 22, 2010—Nashville, notorious for it’s country music has another side to it, an icy, cold, ferocious side only unleashed at the Bridgestone Arena when the Nashville Predators take to the ice. Our beloved team here in Nashville is making a playoff push and they are striving to find their place amongst the Western conference’s elite. We...
Vanderbilt Pride
Feb. 28, 2010—Four hours before game time the Saturday of the Vanderbilt vs. Kentucky men’s basketball game, there was a shockingly long line of Vandy students outside Memorial Gym. (Here at Vanderbilt, we don’t buy student tickets to games – we get into all athletic events free with our Vandy ID) When I finally entered the stadium,...
School Spirit
Feb. 18, 2010—Growing up a New Yorker college athletics were sort of an unknown phenomenon to me. I followed the bowl games when the end of December rolled around, and always got into March Madness, but outside of those two big events I barely followed college sports. It seems that the culture of college athletics simply is...
Never a dull moment at Vandy
Feb. 12, 2010—Events on campus are starting to pick up intensely. If you have been following college basketball, you would know that we are well within the top 25 in the NCAA Division I rankings. Tuesday night was an incredible game where we took on #12 ranked Tennessee and topped them by 19 points. It was an...
The Soundtrack to “A Typical Vandy Week”
Feb. 3, 2010—I don’t know about y’all (yeah yeah I’m your resident southern belle blogger…) but I sometimes wish that there was music playing in the background of my life everyday. Don’t lie… you know you’ve thought about it too. Well I decided to thoroughly search through my iTunes library to find the perfect soundtrack to my...
Happy New Year
Jan. 2, 2010—Being that today is only the second day of the new year, I would like to examine a problem I hear people discussing; how to shorten the year like I have known ever since my childhood. In the 90’s it was always like 98 or 99 but as soon as we hit the early 2000’s...