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Deep Creek

In the spirit of sucking life dry, I’m heading to Deep Creek Lake for the weekend. I didn’t even have to unpack my suit! For some reason, one of the first things I knew about the state of Maryland was [...]

College Park After Dark

INCIDENT:     Robbery OCCURRED:     01/27/2007, 2:20 a.m. LOCATION:     Gambling House in Nearby Residential Neighborhood PGCPD CASE #: 07-027-0193 BRIEF DETAILS: On 01/27/2007, at approximately 2:20 a.m., two suspects entered a house in a nearby residential [...]

The Weakest Link

The Weakest Link

When you graduate from Maryland, you get a keychain with your fake diploma (which is actually a small poster; my real diploma was mailed 5 months later when I called wondering where it was). The keychain says Maryland Alumni, and [...]

Hail, Alma Mater

Hail, Alma Mater

Not only are there Terrapins climbing the staircases at BWI (a marketing move described as “unique” and “unexpected for an educational institution”…………in a good way), but we also won the Grounds Maintenance Award. I originally meant that as a joke, [...]

Mckeldin Magic

Mckeldin Magic

Freshman year was a hard time to do schoolwork. I lived in a quad, converted into a triple, and we rarely went to bed before 4 or 5am. i actually dropped a grade in a class because i slept through [...]

Testudo deserves better

Testudo deserves better

It’s always interesting to see what the University of Maryland considers worthy of its homepage real estate. National basketball championships, Nobel Prize winners, these are obvious choices. But once in a while they (OIT? Administration? marketing?) make a bold move [...]