As I prepared to travel to England, I had something noted on my calendar that had nothing to do with literature or even tourism. This was the Farnborough Airshow, supposedly the largest and best event of its kind. It was going to take place in my third week at Oxford, just a couple of hours away. Naturally, I had to go.
Wait, We Have a Game this Week? — UCD @ Stanford
You Should Care About Today’s Game, and You Should Care About the Causeway Cup
Update: The Ags win 1-0 with a late goal by Celina Minissian, her first as an Aggie.
For those of you who may not be following UCD Athletics, the first major event of the season happens today, and that’s Women’s Soccer visiting rival Sac State in their annual Causeway Classic matchup.
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Quick Talk: Trying to Explain the Big Sky Conference in One Sentence Per School
It seems that a lot of UCD students are turned off by the fact that we don’t play in the PAC-12 or another famous conference. It is an unfortunate fact that California happens to boast four research universities on par with Davis that do play in a top-level conference, creating a bit of a sense of entitlement in terms of being included in such an organization.
The fact is, there are many, many DI conferences out there that aren’t major conferences, and the two big ones UCD is a part of (Big West for most sports, Big Sky for football) are pretty good ones with which to identify. The Big West, because it spans so many sports, is a topic too big to cover in full, so we’ll restrict the discussion to the Big Sky football teans for now.
Earl Grey and Actual Earls: Experiencing British Class and Culture
One of the subtle but important goals of the program was to familiarize us with some of the facets of British daily life and how the nation’s history and class live on in modern traditions. This was important for two reasons: first, it provided some local flavor for our travels; and second, it gave context to cultural nuances in the older works we studied, such as The Wind in the Willows.
On the grounds of the Wilton House.
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