I was thinking about New Years resolutions and this question came across my mind. Are you living life like you want to live it, or are you living it the way society has dictated it should be lived? A valid answer to this question could be, “I am living the way society has dictated and [...]
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EDIT: Apparently the position has been filled… and announced - Elliot Hirshman is the new Provost and senior vice president of academic affairs (as of the end of Finals).
I’ve been meaning to jot something down about this for a long time now — guess I’m just getting to it now.
So, I’m sure tons of people [...]
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Finish this analogy, Duke is to College Basketball as UMBC is to ….? The answer is chess. Starting in 1996 UMBC has been a dominant force in College Chess. However, with success comes controversy and the UMBC Chess Team has a lot of both. In 1996 UMBC started its reign at the top [...]
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Where do you see yourself a year from now? 4 years? 10 years? 20?
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We received an email from Stephen Nichols who is involved in fighting game tournaments in the Commons Gameroom. The email was titled “Commons Gameroom PROS.” Needless to say, I quite liked the sound of that title. There are video game tournaments held weekly in the Gameroom on Wednesdays starting at about 7:00pm. Normally, two games [...]
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With lots of recent graduates (…congratulations to everyone who graduated Thursday!) and lots of students now only a semester from graduation, I figured some guys might be starting to look into engagement rings. This can be a very confusing process, as there are lots of variables when it comes to classifying jewelry. [...]
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What are you going to do now that you’ve finished your finals?
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The relentless onslaught of finals these past few weeks has set UMBC Underground a few weeks behind on Weeks in Nutshells. Here’s a quick summary of what’s been going on these past few weeks.
Eliot Change is indeed F’n Funny - write up on Asian Student Connection’s comedy show featuring Eliot Change
Saturday Night Blues - [...]
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Because we know people are busy doing fun things over break, and we know how annoying it is to frequently check websites only to see it hasn’t been updated, UMBC Underground is just going to post new articles on Friday’s through Winter Break. You can definitely check in more often than to see what people [...]
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Yesterday, I was at the Commons and to my great chagrin I discovered that the SubConnections stand had run out of bread and instead was using tortilla rolls. I contacted the resident district manager of Sodexho and he emailed me back that he did not yet have an answer for this but that he [...]
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