February, 2010
#12 UT @ #24 Vanderbilt – ESPN 7 pm EST
Feb. 9, 2010—It is Rivalry week in college basketball and our cross state rival Tennessee comes to town. Vandy Fanatics, our school spirit org. called for a “WHITE OUT” so all fans will be wearing white to support the ‘Dores. We will need sophomore star Jeff Taylor and freshman John Jenkins to return to form tonight in...
Melodores in Action
Feb. 8, 2010—This past weekend was the ICCA Acappella competition at UGA in Athens, Georgia. Although the Melodores did not advance to the next level of the competition, we did have a successful performance and a great time to bond with each other. As I mentioned before, Vanderbilt does a great job of actively supporting student organizations;...
2010 ED2 Decisions Mailed and Total Applications Update
Feb. 6, 2010—Yesterday afternoon, the latest rounds of admissions offers left 2305 West End Ave. Early Decision II applicants should receive their admissions decisions sometime early this coming week in the mail. As we are now able to get a glimpse of the entire Early Decision pool and admitted class, here’s some information on the profile of that class.
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...
The “Melodores”
Feb. 2, 2010—Monday evening – 11:52pm (aka the only time I have had to write this today) So I got into the “Melodores” acapella group last week. They needed a couple of guys to fill spots quickly as this coming weekend we are competing at the University of Georgia for the quarterfinals of the ICCA acapella competition....
COLLEGE SPORTS
Feb. 1, 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...