Like throwing darts at a map
One of the problems international students face when they come to study in America is that they usually do not get a chance to check out the campus before arriving. Read More…
Wherever I lay my hat
Champagne Problems
There’s no place like home. There’s no place like home. There’s no place like… whatever, Dorothy. You’d better not wear those shoes to a Cal-Stanford game. But that smug Kansas kid had one thing right. Wherever you are, whatever you do, the pull of your home is inexorable. We carry Read More…
Grass is always greener
Champagne Problems
This Saturday is March 17, known worldwide as St. Patrick’s Day, or “the day when you can start drinking before noon and still retain some level of social acceptance” in Ireland. My liver is cowering in fear and I’m getting just a little bit homesick, especially now that it’s raining Read More…
The Daily Cal Guide to the Euros: Group C (The Spanish kings and three court jesters)
Editor’s Note: This is the third in soccer correspondent Seung Y. Lee’s four-part preview of the Euros. Today he previews Group C: Spain, Italy, Ireland and Croatia. Click here for Seung’s previews of Group A and Group B. Italy, Ireland, and Croatia all have something to get off their chests Read More…
Irish ad absurdum
The murder was announced early Monday and took place Thursday evening shortly after 8 o’clock. This being a widely anticipated event, the Green Room of the theater was packed to bursting. It was difficult to move an elbow, let alone shake a fist. Most people resorted to the incessant nodding Read More…
On the lookout for a little Irish luck
I had been in Europe a week before the homesickness struck. It was swift and sudden, like a jab to the gut or maybe like a punch to the heart. I was sitting on a bench in St. Stephen’s Green, a beautifully landscaped park in the middle of Dublin center. Read More…