The Stanford Daily

Author: Athalie Laguerre

Staff Columnist

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Get units for activities outside of the classroom

By Athalie Laguerre
OPINIONS| Announcement: There are six shopping days until the study list deadline. And even though this shopping season probably won’t involve any of the Christmas time fistfights or stampedes over the last 12 Tickle-Me-Elmos at FAO Schwartz, we still have to face the dreaded unit count at the end the week.

Summer of intern abuse

By Athalie Laguerre
OPINIONS| From the first day of kindergarten to the first day of class as a senior in college, some things never change. For one, it’s the only time of year when everyone is certain that they will be getting straight A’s come the end of the term.

Freshman Orientation blues

By Athalie Laguerre
OPINIONS| As I was packing my bags a few weeks ago for what will sadly be my last year here at Stanford, I kept trying to remember what it was like leaving home for the first time as a freshman.

My life as a TV show

By Athalie Laguerre
OPINIONS| So it’s almost finals week, and not only are we all supposed to be hitting the books, we are supposed to like it. There is no doubt that learning has its benefits, and I guess you can say that I like to read, but I must confess that even more than I appreciate the written word, I love television.

Toward a more practical degree

By Athalie Laguerre
OPINIONS| Even though temperatures are consistently slipping below 70 degrees and some people have taken to wearing their winter scarves to class in the morning, summer break is just around the corner.

Time to release your inner freak

By Athalie Laguerre
OPINIONS| This week, there will be no ice cream, cookies or cake in my kitchen. I have cut back on my 10 snacks a day and changed my morning bike route to avoid the temptation of Moonbeans.

Draw-number judgment day

By Athalie Laguerre
OPINIONS| Your roommate just joined a housed sorority, your best friend is going abroad fall quarter and you’re stuck in a Draw group with three people from your hall who you’ve only spoken to twice all year.

Spring fashion: hot and not

By Athalie Laguerre
OPINIONS| Just in case you have been inside a climate-controlled room all week, let me remind you that it is hot — very hot. The weathermen are calling it a “heat wave,” but being from the notoriously hot, hazy and humid East Coast, to me this is simply springtime.

Come back next weekend

By Athalie Laguerre
OPINIONS| As Greek rush is coming to an end and the weather is starting to improve, this weekend looks like it should be an all-out Animal House, “party like it’s 1999” kind of weekend.

No cure for summer job blues

By Athalie Laguerre
OPINIONS| Whoever it was that said spring quarter is a piece of cake must have been a graduating senior with no classes left to take, an admission letter from the top graduate school in the country and a guaranteed summer job.

Does Athalie rhyme with apathy?

By Athalie Laguerre
OPINIONS| I have to confess that I have not voted in the ASSU election since my freshman year when the online ballot system, in comparison to high school’s pen-and-paper voting, seemed too exciting to pass up.

Beating the book-buying blues

By Athalie Laguerre
OPINIONS| If you’re taking classes this quarter, it is probably impossible to get by without buying books. However, there are still ways to avoid having to go to the campus bookstore.

Bring on spring break and leave your do-gooder desires behind

By Athalie Laguerre
OPINIONS| Now that the rain has stopped (goodbye rain boots) and the temperature has risen above the 70-degree mark, I can finally bring up my favorite topic — spring!

Procrastination as social protest

By Athalie Laguerre
OPINIONS| There are 15 days until the end of the quarter, which means that before we can enjoy Spring Break and its bounty of friends, family and quality beach time, we must first go through that hell known as Dead Week.

Prepping for parental scrutiny

By Athalie Laguerre
OPINIONS| At 2 a.m. on any given Monday morning, I am either asleep or wishing I were asleep. But at 2 a.m. last Monday morning, I was staring at one of my residents who — after much knocking — roused me out of bed and to the door.

Monsoon season on the Farm

By Athalie Laguerre
OPINIONS| Some of the other columnists seem to be writing introductions this week, so I was thinking about just following suit with the regular name (can’t you read .