February, 2012
Undergraduate Research in the News
Feb. 15, 2012—Carolyn fills us in on the role of research in the world of undergraduate students.
Viva Las Vandy!
Feb. 15, 2012—I realized the other day that I neglected to post about Viva Las Vandy!–an event that transformed the Commons Center into Las Vegas last Friday night. (Actually, it was the Friday before that, but I can’t bring myself to get rid of that link.)
A Visit From My Parents
Feb. 15, 2012—This weekend, in addition to all of the Gameday madness, I was lucky enough to spend time with my parents! My parents flew in from Miami on Saturday morning and stayed until Monday evening.
Things to do While Awaiting Admissions Decisions
Feb. 14, 2012—Ryan doles out some ideas for passing the time between now and the Regular Decision mail date.
Slowing down a bit
Feb. 13, 2012—So after a truly memorable weekend with watching our ladies’ basketball team beat the Lady Vols, hosting “ESPN College Gameday“, and putting up an unbelievable fight against UK in the men’s basketball game Saturday night–all on little to no sleep–a lazy Sunday was much needed.
Weekend Home
Feb. 13, 2012—I’ve already been up 5 hours and the day is young. No, I wasn’t cramming for a test or finishing up a paper, but rather driving 3 hours back from Knoxville. This past weekend, I went home and got to sleep in my own bed!
ESPN Gameday Parts 2 and 3
Feb. 12, 2012—I was so exhausted between Gameday and the Vanderbilt-UK basketball game, that I didn’t have time to blog. I will give you a recap of my crazy Gameday experience:
EDII Decisions Mailed and Total Applications Update
Feb. 10, 2012—EDII letters have left the building. More on that (and a total application update) from Ryan.
Giving Blood
Feb. 10, 2012—Howdy, Internet! After my streak of critically acclaimed, New York Times bestseller blogs, I found myself devoid of the creativity, the drive, the spark that usually inspires me to such heights of blogging genius. At the beginning of this year, as described in a previous article about cows, I accidentally joined Vandy Red Cross, a...
ESPN Gameday Part 1
Feb. 10, 2012—In case you haven’t turned on ESPN within the past week, I’m here to let you know that College Gameday will be filmed from Vanderbilt’s Memorial Gym this Saturday, for the first time in school history! As your unofficial sports blogger, I hope that you know me better than to think that I would miss...
Vanderbilt Road Warriors
Feb. 9, 2012—Carolyn Pippen on the lengths we'll go to find future Commodores.
Quality of Life?
Feb. 9, 2012—The other day in my “Environment, health: the real issues” course, we talked about how the perception of what quality of life means is different from person to person. For example, people in industrial cities tend to talk about pollution and green spaces as taking away from or improving, respectively, their quality of life whereas...