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Most people tell you to make mistakes. Few tell you why.
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Most people tell you to make mistakes. Few tell you why.
From May 9-12, thousands of students will close a chapter of their lives by ending their educational career at UB and receiving their degrees. Students will embark upon the next journey of their lives after attending one of the 17 commencement ceremonies.
Maria Pascucci grew up being "the smart kid." Her role was "the smart one" and she began to base her identity around it. Although her parents didn't place pressure on her and she wasn't just a test score to them, Pascucci could not give herself credit for any of her good qualities, except her intelligence.
Veronica Hardy, a freshman geology major, was shocked and dismayed when her floormate, with whom she was having sexual relations, sent the naked pictures she sent him that he said he wouldn't show a soul to their entire dorm.
UB has just released breaking news: The school has now, definitely, set into motion the plan to form a group of people to plan the plan of the UB 2020 plan.
I've lived in the University Heights, willingly, for the last three years.
Kelly Stone once walked in on her son attempting to insert a tampon into his butt. Her son knew what a tampon was and what it was used for - that it was for his mother's "gina," and he didn't have a "gina."
When I tell people I have three brothers, they tend to be surprised. When I clarify that I have three older brothers, most people tend to have the same reaction. I call it "the yikes." It consists of raised eyebrows, a sympathetic frown and a big exhalation of breath.
Robert Allen*, a senior nursing major, lost his virginity when he was 19 years old. Now 21, Allen has participated in two orgies with two different groups of people. He considers himself a "kind of boring guy."
While he was recovering from an emergency appendectomy, Joseph Steet gained 70 pounds from the fall of 2010 to the end of the year. With a diet mainly consisting of Taco Bell, Four Loko and mozzarella sticks, Steet weighed 210 pounds.
Carolyn Molina, a sophomore English major, spent the majority of her Saturday night dropping obvious clues about her discomfort, dismay and overall annoyance about her living situation, while her roommate and her roommate's boyfriend made out and blissfully ignored Molina's general well being.
Paul Baumann, a sophomore mechanical and aerospace engineering major, couldn't celebrate his four-year anniversary with his girlfriend. The plans were in place but something prevented him from setting foot outside his house: the flu.
Anthony Ridge, a senior biomedical engineering major, expressed his outrage on Monday after his research adviser, Leonard Calderon, gave him an ultimatum: either Ridge actually start going to the laboratory and do more than make baking soda volcanoes or he is fired.
Across the globe, individuals' thoughts and beliefs are censored. Many get punished by their government for speaking out. But Vonvo.com gives them a place to speak free of persecution and the chance to hear the voice of their "enemies," not the voice mass media gives them.
After the general undergraduate population spent the majority of the semester watching students play Temple Run during World Civilizations, seeing the library filled with students watching Jersey Shore and the overall lack of opened books anywhere on campus, the Admissions Office finally set the record straight.
As a boy, Chris Scolese saw rockets on his television screen. He saw the strings attached to them and knew they were fake, but it was his first memory of space. Later, as he browsed a scholastic magazine, the cover stuck out to him - it featured a man responsible for the successful launch of an unmanned satellite.
George Lucas sold my childhood.
Robert Johnson, a freshman undecided major, was excited to celebrate his first college Halloween. As a lover of all things scary, Johnson was ready for trick or treating in University Heights.
With the presidential election right around the corner, UB students - along with the rest of the country - are fervently defending their opinions and candidates.
With the presidential election right around the corner, UB students - along with the rest of the country - are fervently defending their opinions and candidates.