November, 2010

Old Friends and New Adventures

Nov. 2, 2010—Whew does time fly by! I can’t believe it is already half way through the semester. This week my boss at my internship took me out to my “half-way-there” lunch and my professor told us, “well class, today you are officially half-way done with your deliverables for the semester.” This is a very scary thought...

Not an Ivy in the South

Nov. 2, 2010—Vanderbilt is not an Ivy League in the South. No, I’m not going to be one of those naïve jerks who tells you the Ivy League is just a sports conference. I understand it means more than an athletic schedule. Wikipedia (the authority on all things pop culture) says the Ivy League has a “connotation...

Professors…They’re Real People Too

Nov. 1, 2010—This week for Vanderbilt Visions, the freshman orientation program, my group went to an event called Talking Heads at Dean Wcislo’s House. The ‘talking heads’ were three of the Faculty Heads of Houses of the Commons. This installment of the Talking Heads series featured Chalene Helmuth, of Sutherland House, and Tony Brown and Chase Lesane-Brown,...