Most of us have been there: cringing at a photo of ourselves and wondering when we started looking like that. Maybe it’s the extra insulation you picked up over the winter. Maybe your rear has begun to sag and dimple. Maybe the definition in your arms is lost. Whatever the gripe – we vow to

When Jonathan Brilliant ’02 entered graduate school at San Jose State University, he began a life phase he describes as “very reductive.” The M.F.A. candidate soon forfeited a studio, deliberately limited the use of color in his art and shaved his head. He rejected many tools and technology, opting to read more books. Meanwhile, Brilliant

Sometimes when Dan Ravenel ’72 is driving his car and spots a soccer game in progress along the highway, he’ll pull over to watch. It could be a school league match or a pick-up game among friends. He’s not concerned with who’s playing. He just loves to observe “the beautiful game.” “Soccer has an élan

During his tenure at the College, from 1975 to 2003, Jeffrey Foster, professor emeritus of French, watched the campus transform from a small institution of approximately 2,000 students to a university of more than 10,000 students. Having accompanied one of the first groups of College students to study abroad in France and helping lay the

Emotions were running high when Celeste West and Brandon Phillips embraced that September evening. They didn’t know each other: this student embarking on his first year of college and this mother who’d lost her only son just a year ago. But it was clear that a bond was already there, forged by the impact that

What’s in a name? For Eliza Hay ’15, it turns out, a lot. “‘Hay is for horses’: I’ve heard it a million times,” says the equestrian star, who this year won the Intercollegiate Horse Show Association’s highest honor, the Cacchione Cup. “For Eliza to win this is incredible. She is the best intercollegiate rider in

Following Taylor Clarke’s shutout, eight-inning pitching performance during the conference tournament, CAA Coach of the Year Monte Lee ’00 was effusive: “He’s the best pitcher I’ve ever had. To be 13-1 and doing what he’s doing is pretty amazing.” Indeed, it is amazing that Clarke finished his junior year with 143 strikeouts (a school record)

Nationally, Bre Bolden is known as the Colonial Athletic Association’s Women’s Basketball Defensive Player of the Year, but on campus she’s best known for her laugh. “Off the court, she’s very quiet and humble,” says first-year women’s basketball head coach Candice Jackson. “But with a very distinctive laugh!” Bolden, a public health major and rising

When biology major Olivia LaRussa ’15 began a senior research project about ants in the Francis Marion National Forest, one of her biggest concerns was – naturally – bugs. In preparation for her hikes in the national forest north of Charleston, she would douse her entire being with potent mosquito spray. However, bugs still found