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Well it’s the middle of May finally and I couldn’t be happier. I am living on my own for the first time and have a full time job making my own money. It was pretty easy going on summer break. I did my best to find a job that would get me through the summer [...]

It is now my fourth week of summer and my situation remains basically the same. I am working at a seaside, seafood restaurant that isn’t a bad gig. The customers can be unruly sometimes, and my boss has her moments, but I’m making money and that’s all that really matters. I also begin babysitting the [...]

Well it’s summer time here and Vermont and I have finally finished all my finals. It feels so great to be done with everything and have a good couple of months off so I can just do nothing if I want. Of course I am not going to be just sitting on my butt all [...]

Well, on May fifth I was officially on summer vacation. It is so weird being out of school so early; my brother who is a sophomore in high school doesn’t get out for another two months. The first thing I did was find a job, it ended up being much easier than I had expected. [...]

Hello again, for the second-to-last time. Classes are over! I would like to take this opportunity to say that it has overall been a satisfactory year, and I will miss a lot of the people I have met. I will enjoy summer, and at the same time, I will be looking forward to next school year [...]

The weather is finally getting warm. We have had about two days in a row in the 80’s. I think everyone is melting here, especially after getting through a week in the negative 20’s. More and more people are sporting their sunburns from spending days down at North Beach. I am one of those people with [...]

Well this is the Hunt gang. When I say Gang, I really mean it. This group of students, all first-years living in the Back Five on Trinity Campus, has been linked together since we all moved in. This was the first group of students that I ever met and I am so happy I got the [...]

The day after my last entry, Friday April 3rd, was the start of the Old Time Music Weekend, and old-time musicians Alan Jabbour and Ken Perlman, playing fiddle and banjo respectively, came to UVM for a concert and music session. I played fiddle with them and a bunch of other musicians until 11:45pm when Police [...]

The weather here at the UVM campus has certainly turned since last month. More and more people are strutting the campus sporting their shorts, skirts, sandals, and t-shirts it’s hard to believe that it actually gets warm here (especially after having a week in the -20’s). With only about 3 weeks left of classes I haven’t [...]

Friends are worth a million words, just like a picture. An experince by oneself can be a lot of fun, but with a friend,it can be life transforming. Have every experience possible at UVM with as many new students and teachers as possible. While I have been here at UVM, all the experinces I have had [...]

I am sitting in my room with the window wide open to a gorgeous sunny day and my music playing, hearing what sounds like someone coughing up a lung outside (a regular occurrence around this time of day…). I guess I’ll start this entry with a brief overview of the last two weeks, and I’ll go [...]

The few weeks following Spring break have been ridiculously busy. Filled with papers, exams, meetings, and of course fun. It seems that as the year comes to a close the workload piles on faster than I thought possible. I cannot believe that my first year of college is almost over, it seems like an eternity [...]

I feel like a lot has happened since I last wrote. Hmmm…oh yeah, that’s right, there was a little thing called Spring Break. I don’t know how others feel, but either I did too much and slept too little, or one week really is not that long. I started my break by doing a Ride-Along [...]

As I write this I am on the bus home for spring break. It is a long journey; approximately six or seven hours provided that there isn’t a “Greyhound Catastrophe.” Going home is a strange thing, because all of a sudden you have the good fortune of having two homes and two families. The first [...]

I sit here at my desk on the first Monday back from spring break. My friends and I are all hanging out in the room feeling very lethargic and not wanting to do any work that has to be done. I was assigned a bunch of work over the break, but me being the college [...]

Ah, one day until Spring Break! I feel as though the entire University community needs this. My brother is going to Europe for the break, with my suitemate and one of his suitemates. I am going to do some schoolwork for EDFS055, go skiing, and be on duty for rescue. Oh, and I suppose I [...]

My class schedule is a lot better this semester than last. I have learned that it is better to have classes clumped and early rather than spread out and later in the day. Of course this isn’t to say that this way is the best way, some people like to have all of their classes [...]

Spring break, only one week away and I feel like I’m not going to make it. The only thing separating me from my wonderful week of peace and quiet is three essays, one exam, two quizzes and several little readings. This last week before spring break is going to be really hectic and busy, but [...]

Money money money. Money is definitely one of the most prominent problems that college students face. I have definitely realized that in the past week. Not only did I lose my CatCard, but I had negative 44 cents to my name, in my checking account. I guess those two days I took off from work [...]

I have been here for second semester for a little more than a month now, and I am enjoying myself more than I was first semester. It’s time for an official update on classes. I am receiving education about race and ethnicity in four classes (all but EMT-Basic), so I am feeling kind of swamped [...]

It’s 6:50 in the morning and I hear my alarm clock go off. I roll over and try to hit the snooze button when I am hit by a pillow wish someone telling me, “If you don’t get up right now, I am going to pour a glass of water on you.” That would be [...]

I have learned a lot since my first semester at UVM, so I decided to compile a list of things I have learned (usually the hard way) since coming to Vermont. Here goes: I have learned how to make a schedule that will most benefit me, not just what looks appealing to the eye (later [...]

I sit in my dorm room right now looking at the pile of books on my desk, just waiting to be read. I have so much to do and I don’t know why I did not start earlier. I’ve been in school for a couple of weeks now and I am still trying to adjust [...]

Today I was thinking about how different college is from high school, and from everything I knew prior to Vermont. I came from a really small high school in Rhode Island; so coming to a big college was an enormous change. I wanted to figure out how to stick out in the crowd and most [...]

Welcome back to UVM for semester #2. Just as a heads up to any readers, I have not reviewed my past entries. The first reason for that being laziness, and the second to keep my thoughts more authentic and unaffected by what I would have seen that I had written. So, I returned to school [...]

While away on Christmas break, I was feeling a mixture of feelings about returning to college. I was excited to be returning due to the fact of seeing all my new friends that I had made thus far but, I was a little nervous because it was time to start new classes, and new classes [...]

Today I had my first Integrating the Arts in the Classroom lesson. It is a three hour class consisting of singing, dancing, making arts and crafts, and playing fun games. When I first walked into the room I felt like I had entered a kindergarden classroom. People were playing clapping games, my professor was singing [...]

Hello, my name is Heather and I am an eighteen year old freshman social work major at the University of Vermont. I’ve grown up in Vermont my whole life with my mom, dad and little sister and I love everything about it. I went to Hartford High School in central Vermont and had a wonderful [...]

My name is Eliza and I am a first-year student at the University of Vermont. I am majoring in Elementary Education with a major concentration in English. I come from the smallest town in the smallest state, Rhode Island. I have many passions but some of my biggest are dancing, laughing, and helping others. I [...]

I did a lot, but did I get a lot done? I would have to say that I grew as a person. High School Senior Latimer could challenge College Latimer to just about anything but Calculus, and High School Senior Latimer would lose. I don’t know if that’s a good measure. I gained weight from [...]

The 2 things I’ve learned in the past two weeks: Learn to say NO. and Schedule time to eat. So far this semester I’ve been so busy with class, work study, mock trial, and homework I haven’t gotten a chance to breathe in that cold Vermont air. I find myself yearning for Winter Break. It [...]

I cannot speak for my fellow first year students, but I was not sad to say goodbye to UVM and head home for a little more than 3 weeks. I was definitely happy to be home…with no homework! That thought excited me greatly, as it was a first since before High School. But wait, I [...]

The word dreaded by college students everywhere. But looking back on them, they weren’t too bad. Of the 5 classes I took last semester, 3 of them had exams, on was a final portfolio, and the other was a presentation. I was so stressed over the exams, until I started looking over the material and [...]

As I mentioned in my last entry, I had only two exams during what was considered exam week. The others were either during regular class time, non-existent, or on the Friday before the last week of school, so I went home to ski and relax that Friday night. I could have hung out, but I [...]

Thanksgiving Break is just barely on-time at UVM. There are no breaks in Fall Semester until this break, unless one counts Labor Day, but school sometimes starts the day after Labor Day. It was a relief for me, and it must have been close to life-saving for many other students. I went home almost every [...]

Midterm time rolled around, and a feeling of tension arrived on campus. My suitemates buckled down and studied for numerous midterms. Either midterms are actually not a big deal, or I lucked out in a big way. The only assessment I had that was labeled as a “midterm” was for history, which was an open-note, [...]

I can still vividly remember move in day, even more than 2 months later. It was sunny and hot out, and I woke up in the bed in the hotel room sick to my stomach. “How am I ever going to be able to do this?” I thought. Even though I had looked foreword to [...]

Move in day is exciting and frightening. My move-in day was pretty typical. I arrived before my roommate so I was able to choose the bed next to the windows, but while I was gone shopping, my roommate and his family set up his part of the room to give me close to no room, [...]

Well, I guess I’ll start with the basics. My name is Mary, and I just started school here at UVM. I grew up in rural New Jersey, because believe it or not, an area like that exists! Fredon, my hometown, is a typical small town. Everyone knows each other’s business, and by the time I [...]

Hello. My name is Latimer. I am a first year student in the College of Education and Social Services at the University of Vermont with a major in Secondary English Education. I have lived all my life on a dirt road in rural Enosburg Falls, VT, on a subsistence farm, where my family grows fruits [...]

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