2008 Woodie Awards
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DVC's switch to block scheduling is a big improvement over the previous five-day-a week pattern and should continue, despite student leaders' complaints. Seventy-five-minute classes now run back-to-back, four days a week, with many students finished by early afternoon and off on Fridays.
I stopped by the Inquirer lab in August before heading off to Iran with my father for my first trip ever to the country of his birth, a place he hadn't seen in over 20 years. I knew the trip would be a journey of discovery, and I wanted to see if I could write a piece about my time there for the student newspaper.
To have played some of the first video game systems is a bragging right of every gamer: "I owned an Atari 2600," or "I used to play the first Nintendo." It's as if playing Pac-Man on a 4 graphic system entitles us to greatness. But playing some of the newer games these days doesn't receive the same sort of respect.
I was born into Tibetan Buddhism and transitioned to atheism and finally to agnosticism. By definition, an agnostic is not committed to believing in or disbelieving in the existence of God. My mother is a devoted Tibetan Buddhist. She prays every morning and every night.
