The lights went out in the T.D. Waterhouse Centre on Monday night, and from the darkness emerged a young man-renowned throughout the world, yet still wide-eyed and humbled by his chance at fame. The spotlight shone on him, displaying both his confidence and his amazement at the crowd before him.
Okay, so everyone has heard of the personals section in the newspaper where people can search for a relationship or a date. Then there are the marriage announcements, where anyone interested (or bored enough) can find out who's just been hitched. And there are the classifieds where you can sell or buy pretty much anything you want.
Starting Monday, January 31st, and ending on Friday, February 4th there happens an event here at Rollins College that is nearly as common place on College campuses as attaining knowledge itself. Rush Week, which is now to be called formal recruitment because of the negative connotation of the word rush and its association with the act of hazing.
The year 2005 has brought some hot, new tunes. If you're into country music, Kenny Chesney's new CD, Be As You Are and LeAnn Rimes', This Woman just hit stores. If pop is more your style, Jennifer Lopez (better known as J-Lo) has her new CD out entitled, Rebirth, but it does not hit stores until March 1st.
With the hectic holiday season over, the movie theatres have returned to some semblance of normalcy, if not on screen then instead in the lines outside the cinema. But when most blockbusters have ended their mega-million dollar run a new cinematic gem has emerged in the romantic comedy-drama In Good Company.
Are you looking for a hot date this weekend? Maybe you are trying to set up a study group for that rigorous Chemistry course? Are you missing your high school friends that you have lost touch with? What if I told you that by the touch of a mouse and the click of a website that your social problems at college can be solved in minutes? For those of you that are clueless to where I am getting at, I am talking about the newest computer craze known as www.thefacebook.com.