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Blog: Nook Nerd!

Katie Cox — Mon, 14 May 2012 20:56:34 -0500

On Thursday, May 3, I checked out the Nook Number 4 from the Uni High Library. Now, over my life, I have checked many, many things out from various libraries, whether they be in San Jose, CA, Stony Brook, NY, or right here in Champaign, IL. This Nook, however, is by far my favorite thing that I have ever checked out.

March Madness: April Wrap-up edition

William Lowell Givens — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 09:20:11 -0500

March Madness: The Final Four

William Lowell Givens — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 09:26:57 -0500

Blog: A sinking feeling

James Boyle — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 15:23:19 -0500

I'm not a senior and I'm not even planning on going to prom. But a Titanic-themed prom?

March Madness: The Time has Come

William Lowell Givens — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 15:08:43 -0500

Photo by William Givens (click to enlarge) Get your brackets filled out, 'cause March Madness is here!

Tim Tebow and his haters

William Lowell Givens — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 23:38:33 -0600

After a game-winning 80 yard Touchdown pass that capped off a solid performance, I thought Tim Tebow's haters would rescind their comments. However, I guess haters will just keep hating.

Foreign Music

James Boyle — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 23:11:35 -0600

Lately, I have been listening to foreign music, more so than usual. By "foreign" I mean music made by non-Americans, typically with lyrics that aren't in English. While I don't think the distinction between "American" and "foreign music" makes sense per se, a musician's choice of repertoire, language of expression, popularity, and many other factors are definitely culturally influenced or based.

Blog: Life could use a speed limit

Nikita Dutta — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 22:00:57 -0600

I often feel frazzled whenever I turn on the evening news and am bombarded by dozens of different stories at once. The broadcasters themselves switch quickly from topic to topic, the ticker at the bottom of the screen is constantly flashing headlines within seconds of each other, and sometimes there's even a bar feeding you a steady stream of updates on what people are "tweeting" about.

Blog: The US gets its gas from...

Sarah Yockey — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 16:21:20 -0600

Canada. Yep, Canada.

Are you confused? I was too. I was sitting calmly in the second row of Mr. Butler's classroom. But inside my mind was reeling.

Blog: A trip to the movie theater

Emma Hoyer — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 15:40:01 -0600

Last weekend, I went to see "The Muppets" with my mother, brother, and my friend, Kaila Simpson. I was thoroughly excited to see this movie, mostly because I adore the Muppets. I have loved the Muppets ever since I was little, and through the years my adoration has not changed. I can say the same for my family and Kaila; they were bouncing up and down with excitement, literally.

Blog: LoL

Jefferson Chunjian Fu — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 15:53:26 -0600

This year, a new game has taken over every moment of my free time. The game is called League of Legends, abbreviated LoL. For nigh on two months, I have been losing tremendous amounts of sleep, zoning into League of Legends for hours on end, sometimes sleeping at 5 a.m. during Thanksgiving break.

Blog: Everything awful about "Jack and Jill" that I didn't have time to criticize.

Will Erickson — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 14:37:00 -0600

That's right, we're back to this movie again. I realized that the review I recently wrote did not properly describe the horrors my friends and I endured at the hands of this movie. I stand by my earlier statement that this is one of the worst movies I have ever seen, but I felt that in order to make a statement like that I would need to present my audience with proper evidence.

Blog: Holiday Patience

Katie Cox — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 23:39:20 -0600

Tomorrow is December first, meaning that for the next 25 days, everything is going to be in shades of red and green, and carols will be blasting from every store door in preparation for the long-awaited holiday, Christmas.

Blog: The optimal "Star Wars" viewing experience

Vickie Chang — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 22:11:25 -0600

Some of the movies at the top of my movie bucket list are those in the "Star Wars" series, and recently I decided to get to work watching those. But I had a big dilemma: what order do I watch them in?

Blog: My night in the spotlight

Sarah Yockey — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 15:35:36 -0500

Blank stare. Shuffle, shuffle. Twitch. Shuffle, shuffle. Blank stare.

I crossed the stage last night, staring and shuffling, as a zombie in Uni's fall play, "Night of the Living Dead."

My skin was whitened, my eyes were ringed in black, and black goop covered my mouth and chin. I was a sight, or so my mother said when I got home.

Blog: The uncommon application?

Luke Karmazin — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 07:46:08 -0500

College deadlines are inching closer and applications have become a staple of the nightly senior workload. But with all the answering and re-answering of questions, essay topics blending together, and last-minute testing decisions, one would hope that the Common Application would make things simpler.

Blog: To date or not to date? The age old question

Alana Rosenbaum — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 15:26:42 -0500

Some students have a great time with their dates at Uni dances, but other students feel left out when they don't have a date.

Blog: Quoting Uni

Sarah Yockey — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 15:46:10 -0500

I'm racking my brain, thinking myself back to that third row desk in subbie science. What were those unforgettable phrases I'm now forgetting? What was it that cracked me up for days in U.S. History?

You know what I'm talking about, of course. I'm working on my senior quote section for the yearbook.

Blog: 272 days and counting!

Emma Hoyer — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 13:43:38 -0500

October is just around the corner, which means that I only have 3 more months of poetry left to write. I calculated the number of days left, and I just have to come up with 93 more poems and then my year long project will be complete.

Blog: Four movies that I don't want to admit I'm going to see

Will Erickson — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 19:06:20 -0500

As excited as I am for legitimately good upcoming movies like "The Rum Diary" and "Anonymous", there are more than a few films that I'm less eager to tell people about. I'm writing this blog as a way of calling out reviewers like myself that pretend that they only watch the classiest of classy movies.