“Our destiny beyond the Earth is not only a matter of national identity but a matter of national security.”
Tinder and online dating is about as difficult as navigating a 3,000-level college course with no notes.
It’s 2:00 a.m. on what you’d like to believe is still a Saturday night. Students all over Gainesville have been bar hopping or pub crawling, depending on their physical state. The point? They are all hungry. Hungry for some good, old fashioned drunk pizza that will soak up the bad decisions of the night. Enter a late-night, Midtown classic: Italian Gator Pizza.
If you’re having a “ruff” day, one resource to try on campus is dog therapy. Offered at both Santa Fe College and UF, respective programs “Paws & Relax” and “Yappy Hour” connect students with Beau, Marco, Siggi and Gabe, the four campus therapy dogs.
Mermaids from across the nation gathered at Ginnie Springs last weekend.
The community band formed by a UF summer program performed one last free show Wednesday.
On Oct. 10, 1961, former President John F. Kennedy authorized the building of a 500-bed veterans hospital. It would sit near UF on 31 acres. Then, on Oct. 22, 1967, the Malcom Randall VA Medical Center opened its doors to patients.
After having to use bottled water since opening, the Ronald McDonald House in Gainesville was given the gift of in-house water.
The suspect of a Wells Fargo robbery was arrested by Gainesville Police a few hours after the crime was committed.
College is a time of big changes for anyone. There are a lot of major decisions to make.You have to select your area of study and decide how you’re going spend your time on campus. The moves we make during these years on campus can outline the trajectory for our future. Making concrete and life-changing decisions can feel overwhelming. Things in and out of your control can affect your life path. Choosing one club or class can feel insignificant. But, on the other hand, one experience can illuminate a dream you never knew you had. Conversely, one class or club won’t make or break your life. A failure or a misstep can be a chance to learn or find what’s right for you.For me, this year has been especially crushing. I’ve felt stuck and frustrated due to how sick I’ve been. This summer, I wasn’t able to take on an internship. I’ve been in and out of the doctor and stuck in bed unable to focus on anything. I’m scared how sick I feel now is going to impact my future.Writing my columns for this Summer semester was really my only connection to a world outside of my phone, class on my laptop, bedroom or doctors’ offices. Sometimes I wrote what I needed to hear myself. Other times, I wrote about something impacting me in real time. Some things were reflective.For me, I’m glad I made the decision to write this summer for The Alligator. It taught me a lot about myself. I’m stuck on more than one decision for the Fall semester and grappling with the realities of what I can and can’t take on. More decisions being made by my body without my input.I can’t tell my body to give me more energy and magically function at its best. I wish it was up to running down Stadium Road or past Century Tower under a curtain of Spanish moss. I wish I could spend late nights on campus working in the newsroom or at The Alligator. I wish I could do more outside of my dorm bed and fill my UF bucket list to the brim with things other than going to UF Health Shands Hospital multiple times a week, not for an internship, but for visits.These decisions are made for me, by my doctors or by my health. I can’t change them as much as I want to. What I can do is make the most of the decisions left for me to make. College has taught me many lessons beyond the classroom, most of them about life. I may not have had my dream internship or campus experience yet, but I do have wisdom from my unique experiences that I might not have gotten any other way. And I do have wonderful professors, doctors, mentors and friends who have given me something that’s one of the most important parts of college to me: community.
Today, I moved out of the dorm I’ve been living in for two years. I secretly liked living in a dorm, and I feel a little sentimental leaving it for a house. Once you get past the embarrassment of telling people you’re a sophomore living in a dorm, it’s not too bad.
We all know the walk through Turlington Plaza. It’s a veritable minefield of distractions. People handing out pamphlets, students trying to get you to join their clubs, doughnut sales for the nexus of evil: the Alachua County Humane Society. But there are also those who have a less-than-appealing message. Some of the Turlington heralds preach a very religious message of fire and brimstone, and some go way overboard on the rhetoric. The next time you walk through Turlington try to keep an open mind and listen to what they’ve got to say.
Throughout the semester, I’ve read and edited some pretty bad columns, so I’m hoping I’ve learned how to write a good one.
Given this is my final column for the summer, I wanted to go over everything that went wrong in the way Student Government handled juggling Newell Hall and Library West. Well, perhaps not just everything that went “wrong;” maybe also things that make you go “hmmmm.”
UF announced last week it received a record $837.6 million to fund research for 2018.
The U.S. spends more than $90 billion on the treatment and diagnosis of back and neck pain each year, and a new center at UF aims to provide cost-effective treatment for these patients.
The Student Health Care Center has a pill that effectively prevents getting HIV, but students at UF haven’t taken advantage of it in at least three years.
Out of the 800 Walgreens locations in Florida, the 17 Gainesville stores no longer have cigarettes on their shelves.
In a climate of uncertainty and hatred toward immigrants, Gainesville artist Renee Hoffinger, 65, brought light to their stories in a photo exhibition Sunday.
A group of UF football players were accused of harassing a Santa Fe College student and other Gainesville residents in a recent Gainesville Police report.
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