While you're knocking out that endless list of class requirements that becomes your ticket to graduation, take time to reflect on the little things, no less important, that flavor your Uni experience. Hand-picked by your trusty seniors Katherine Allen, Hadley Hauser, and Diana Liu, this listing of Uni quirks will either rekindle old memories or spark new dread.

Having trouble keeping up with the pace for National Novel Writing Month? Katy Metcalf has a message for you: Everyone has all sorts of homework and sports and plays and other fantastical things that you spend 25 hours a day doing. There's never enough time, so make time! Check inside for her tips on doing just that.

It's over — Uni's fall play, "The Miser," is over. "All the work we did since September came down to our closing-night performance on Saturday," writes actress Kahlilah Cooke. "Or rather, it was over for the audience. For everyone involved in the play, things weren't even close to finished even after the final bow."

"Though I'm still a bit behind on my word count, I don't really think that finishing the novel is the most important part of NaNoWriMo, at least not for me," writes Stephanie Overmier. "Every writer I've talked to says that one of the best things you can do to improve your writing skill is to write every day, and that writing is a habit that you have to get into."

[Updated with audio] Why wait any longer to write that novel you've had percolating in the back of your mind? Do it now! National Novel Writing month begins this weekend, and it offers the perfect excuse to take time out of your busy schedule to flex your literary muscles. The challenge: Write a 50,000-word novel in 30 days. Check inside to meet four current Uni students who accomplished that feat last year.