Dear Girl Scout Cookies, Once a year you come into our lives. Once. When spring finally comes around, it’s a fight to the death for that last Thin Mint. For the Girl Scouts, it’s an opportunity to become young entrepreneurs and learn more about handling money. And for their mothers, it’s an opportunity ...
Every college town has its cafes and Farmville is no exception. Downtown Farmville not only hosts the J Fergeson Gallery, Longwood Center for Visual Arts and antique shops, but also the curiously named and well-lit Uptown Coffee Cafe. Quickly growing in repute as a performance hub for local musical ...
Dear “Easy Classes,” You’re just a well thought out myth. All you are is a dream created by seniors and easy-streeters looking for a quick GPA boost. Easy classes are fantasies for people who want a slower, no work class that doesn’t exist. Some people believe that an art class is the solution. ...
The sky was overcast and rain had just begun to fall, setting the mood for what was going to be a somber day. Members of Lambda Pi Eta, the communications honor society, were busy setting up for the inaugural event they will host every year, Out of the Darkness Walk. This event is in dedication of those ...
Dear Stress, You are always with me at the worst of times. Whether it is an important interview, singing on a stage or taking a test, you just love to hang around me. No matter the situation, the symptoms you give me feel worse than the actual tasks themselves. My hands start to sweat and my breath ...
I am white. I think. At least, that’s what all the other girls say. That’s what my makeup brand says, Porcelain. But my skin is olive, My father is dark, And my situ has sand etched in her hands Deep under her dark nails. Somehow my partner, Redder than I, So much darker than I, Firmly believes ...
After an enticing buildup from the novel, the movie 50 Shades of Grey, by E.L. James, was a sensual movie that left many viewers with mixed emotions. To open the movie, Anastasia Steele, referred to as Ana, subjects herself to interview billionaire Christian Grey for her roommate who has fallen sick. ...
Dear GNED Classes, Whether it’s some science class with an unscientific name, or taking a musical history class, you’re all the same GNED requirements. I have to take you to seem like a “Citizen Leader.” Even though these are skills that I am paying to have and will never use again, I will still ...
Although Monday night's bonfire-style revelries hardly rivals that of the great Buffalo inferno of the winter of 2013 (nor should it ever amount to such, ever again), a catastrophe that took two fire trucks away from other vital community emergencies in surrounding areas (not just Farmville), but resulted ...
When asked what is “good” music, songs that deserve praise - more than a once-through listen on YouTube, humming in the background of five other BuzzFeed tabs - there is no greater differences in opinion than the ongoing buzz over this year’s Grammy winners. Facebook arguments have ...
Thanks to you the entire school, surrounding counties and any parent that has a child affiliated with Longwood University or Hampden-Sydney College are now panicking that they might have you in their systems. All of the rumors about you hanging around with so-and-so on the hallway, or the dorm across ...
The success that WMLU is going to have is unprecedented. As we have all been hearing, our school’s radio station is becoming bigger and more popular. Two big contributors of this are the new radio station equipment that they got this fall semester and the hard work and perseverance of the WMLU members. ...
I knew why I came to college; I wanted a better job, one that I could enjoy. Maybe I was too vain; I wanted to make a living writing poetry and telling stories. Writing news and writing poetry, though, slowly became inseparable. The value of “good work” too is becoming measured only by the size ...
Dear BuzzFeed, You are the newsroom for hipsters. Students everywhere rely on you to tell them the latest news and what “Friends” character suits their personality best. Your witty feature pieces with their endless GIFs make time fly by easier. I usually wander onto your site by an accidental hyperlink, ...
As America gears up for the Super Bowl, there’s one thing that’s on every sports lovers mind—the current scandal that’s rocked the Patriots to their core. The Boston based team has been accused of deflating their equipment to allow for an advantage in their recent game against the Colts, thereby ...
There is no doubt that college is hard. With intense classes that include extensive research papers and projects, as well as extra circular activities that are almost necessary to survive at a school like Longwood, students don't have much time to do anything else. Yet a lot of students must find jobs, ...
Each week, I gather with my peers to create new pieces of art. No, not just the ones in my actual art class I’m in, but in Crafts Club. That’s right. It may not seem as difficult as creating “The David,” but crafting is art. People tend to set crafting at a lower bar than more traditional art ...
The media has painted a not-so-flattering picture of what Greek life is about. The movies “Neighbors” and “The House Bunny” stereotype Greek life as being one big party filled with alcohol, sex and hazing. Although negative aspects like these do occur in fraternity and sororities, many students ...
On any given week on Brock Commons, at least two different Greek fraternities and sororities are fundraising for their philanthropies. The Cormier Honors College and their student organizers may be collecting canned goods for FACES. The bulletin boards are plastered with fliers pinned on top of each ...
