Today’s Roanoke Times has a sad and fascinating story about Virginia Tech biologist Sue Daniels. It seems that she was killed by a fellow activist, Niklan Jones-Lezama, in a murder-suicide on November 18th. She sounds like a really interesting woman — she lived on a farm without electricity in Giles County, for example — who …
Category Archives: School
Slim, slim pickins.
I’ve kvetched about only being able to get into crappy or off-the-wall classes (such as Real Estate Law — a fine course, but the topic fails to interest me in the least and has almost nothing to do with my political science major), but, damn, my spring ’05 classes really take the cake: Introduction to …
College students. Feh.
In this 180-person class, 30 showed up today. Several are staggeringly drunk, and making it difficult for the class to function. One month to go. One month to go. One month to go…
Sunset on Hokie Stone.
November 16, 2004, 5:52pm. Peddrew-Yates Residence Hall.
One month to go.
One month from today, I’ll take my last two final exams. Four days after that, I’ll pack up a moving van and head home to Charlottesville, one year, four months, one week and two days after moving to Blacksburg and one year, seven months, two weeks and a day after finding out that I was …
Midterms over.
At last, midterms are finished, and I can return to the land of the living. I have a stack of bills 2″ high on my desk, 226 messages in my inbox, voicemail messages that I haven’t listened to, the emptiest refrigerator that I’ve ever had (though with a top shelf chock-full of Waldo’s World o’ …
Autumn day on campus.
October 7, 2004, 2:02pm. War Memorial Hall (l.) and Campbell Hall (r.) on a warm autumn afternoon.
Fellow traveler?
My new amusement: Turning to a Virginia Tech-logo-draped student sitting next to me in a class and asking, surprised, “You go to Virginia Tech, too?”
All ye who enter here.
From 5ives: Five things you must abandon immediately ironic trucker cap aviator sunglasses “vintage” t-shirt from Urban Outfitters cutesy truncated words (“obvs,” “whatevs,” et al.) back tattoos of fanciful creatures That about sums up my current impression of Virginia Tech students. Just in the past two weeks, the student body has been overtaken by faux …
Incipient dope.
I’m just wrapping up week 3 of the fall semester here at Virginia Tech, but it feels like week 1. Having gone through two normal semesters thus far — fall of last year and spring of this year — followed by two summer semesters, I’ve found that the contrast between the two types of semesters …